Overview
This position is a local remote role requiring candidates to live within 2.5 hours of the greater Milwaukee area. The role involves preparing community financial statements and assisting with external financial reporting. The employer offers a comprehensive benefits package for both part-time and full-time employees, including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and various voluntary benefits.
Responsibilities
- Prepare community financial statements and assist in external financial reporting.
- Maintain the integrity of the general ledger by applying generally accepted accounting principles.
- Assist and train less experienced accountants.
- Complete balance sheet and bank account reconciliations by established deadlines; research and resolve discrepancies promptly.
- Review cost center and chart of account structures; recommend improvements to identify expenses accurately and control expenditures.
- Prepare, verify, and control journal entries to the general ledger.
- Evaluate subsidiary journals for errors and omissions; enter corrected data.
- Execute monthly closing entries and general ledger closing by cost center and natural account.
- Review monthly balance sheet and profit-and-loss statements for accuracy.
- Coordinate monthly closing and statement production to ensure timely reporting.
- Review and enhance online financial statements to accurately reflect financial position.
- Update monthly closing procedures.
- Review supporting subsidiary schedules to ensure compliance with accounting practices; make recommendations.
- Document processes and assist in maintaining accounting policies and procedures.
- Prepare audit schedules and respond to auditor requests during financial, SOX, or other audits.
- Monitor and track cash outflows; provide updates to management.
- Interact with field personnel to explain monthly operating activity, investigate variances, provide charge details, and book reclassification entries.
- Correspond with third-party financial institutions and regulatory bodies.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university.
- Three to five years of related experience.
Certifications and Licenses
Skills and Knowledge
- Extensive knowledge of accounting functions and a thorough understanding of the organizational environment.
- Working knowledge of a functional discipline.
- Ability to apply existing guidelines and procedures to make varied decisions within the department.
- Sound judgment and experience to solve moderately complex problems.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions
- Ability to stand, walk, sit, use hands and fingers, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl.
- Ability to talk and hear.
- Ability to lift up to 25 pounds.
- Requires interaction with co-workers, residents, or vendors.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base pay is determined by skills and experience.
- Part-time and full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k), associate assistance program, employee discounts, referral program, early access to earned wages (outside CA), and optional voluntary benefits such as ID theft protection and pet insurance.
- Full-time employees additionally receive paid time off, paid holidays, company-provided life insurance, adoption benefits, short and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, optional life and dependent life insurance, accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity insurance, legal plan, and tuition reimbursement.
- Temporary associates are not benefits eligible but may participate in the 401(k) program.
- Veterans, transitioning active duty military personnel, and military spouses are encouraged to apply.
- The organization offers to advance fees for naturalization application costs (up to $725, less applicable taxes and withholding) for qualified associates employed for at least one year.
Additional Information
- The application window is expected to close within 30 days of posting.
- The employer is an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace.
Location
- Local remote position requiring residence within 2.5 hours of the greater Milwaukee area.