Creative Financial Staffing has partnered with a non-profit organization seeking a Staff Accountant in Boston, MA.
About the Organization:
- Founded over 35 years ago to support their clientele in living successfully
- Provides easy access to essential services to ensure the best possible outcome for each individual
- Awarded the Neighborhood Builder award by the Bank of America's Neighborhood Excellence Initiative
Responsibilities of the Staff Accountant:
- Manages both electronic and physical vendor files, ensuring accurate 1099 classifications.
- Responsible for receiving and distributing invoices to relevant departments for coding and approval, while also reconciling vendor statements.
- Enters approved invoices into the general ledger system.
- Proactively monitors payment deadlines to guarantee timely payments and provides recommendations for invoices to be included in each check run.
- Efficiently handles the production of checks.
- Processes and maintains detailed records of petty cash transactions.
- Calculates and updates monthly expense allocations and other recurring entries.
- Conducts monthly reconciliations for receivable, petty cash, and other designated accounts.
- Assists in the preparation for audits by verifying and organizing necessary documentation.
- Validates the totals of gift reports received from the Development department.
- Ensures timely deposit of all gift batches using remote deposit functionality.
- Records all gift reports accurately in the general ledger.
- Downloads credit card reports and enters them meticulously into the general ledger.
- Performs monthly reconciliation of contribution revenue with the Development staff.
- Swiftly deposits all non-gift receipts using remote deposit functionality.
- Precisely records all deposits in the general ledger.
- Conducts thorough reviews of payroll records (manual or electronic timekeeping system) to ensure accuracy and promptly resolves any discrepancies.
- Enters and reviews employee hours and time-off data in the payroll system.
- Runs audit reports to validate payroll information.
- Prepares the payroll journal entry with utmost accuracy.
- Manages reports on employee sick and vacation data.
Background Expected of the Staff Accountant: - Associate's degree in accounting or related field with at least 2-3 years of related experience (bookkeeping, accounting, etc.) required.
- Bachelor's degree and at least 1 year of accounting/bookkeeping experience in a non-profit setting, preferred.
- Payroll and payroll systems experience an asset.
- Non-profit experiences a plus.
- Experience with computers, including the use of email programs, web-based tools, common Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel), and accounting, general ledger software, required
- SAGE preferred.