Job Description
Job Description
The Senior Staff Accountant is responsible for the performance of general ledger accounting, preparation of financial accounts, monthly closing of accounts, and preparation of financial statements. Demonstrates initiative in understanding process flows and controls. The Senior Staff Accountant oversees the following areas: general accounting, fixed assets, and trend analysis and profit/loss accounts.
Senior Accountant Job Responsibilities:
- Ensures the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating, and entering transactions.
- Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
- Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies.
- Maintains general ledger by transferring subsidiary accounts, preparing a trial balance, reconciling entries and bank accounts.
- Summarizes financial status by collecting information and preparing the comparative balance sheet, profit and loss, and other statements.
- Contributes to the timely completion of the annual financial audit by analyzing and scheduling general ledger accounts and completing audit schedules.
- Avoids legal and funders’ challenges by complying with legal and grants’ requirements.
- Protects organization’s value by keeping information confidential.
- Take part in the annual operating budgeting process, analysis, and review of annual operating budget proposals.
- Prepare tax schedules and apply basic knowledge of tax rules to assist in tax reports and returns.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in accounting, CPA Preferred
Minimum 3 years in finance, public accounting, corporate accounting and or nonprofit experience
Experience working with multiple Federal and Local grants and cost allocation.
Experience with Sage Intacct a plus.