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Staff Accountant

Kennedy Krieger Institute

Baltimore, MDFull-time$51–88K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$51–88K/yr
Location
Baltimore, MD
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

The Staff Accountant performs monthly accounting and financial close work, including recording financial transactions and journal entries and reconciling balance sheet accounts. The role ensures assigned entries, monthly reporting, and reconciliations are completed accurately and on time. It also supports cash receipts, credit card transactions, fixed assets, non-patient accounts receivable, accounting schedules, and other general accounting tasks.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

General AccountingJournal EntriesBalance Sheet ReconciliationFinancial ReportingGeneral Ledger CodingCredit Card ProcessingFixed Asset ManagementAccounts ReceivableLawson Asset ManagementData Entry

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Business, Finance, or Accounting1 Year Accounting Experience

Full job description

Overview

The Staff Accountant will perform a variety of monthly accounting and financial close responsibilities, including the recording of financial transactions/journal entries and reconciling balance sheet accounts. The incumbent will ensure all assigned journal entries are recorded and that assigned monthly reporting and reconciliations are complete and accurate, all within appropriate deadlines.

Responsibilities

  1. Process non-patient cash receipts on a daily basis, including researching and identifying appropriate General Ledger coding.

  2. Process daily credit card transactions, ensuring proper handling of confidential information.

  3. Prepare and enter assigned monthly journal entries, including balance sheet, revenue and expense, and net asset transactions.

  4. Update and reconcile assigned balance sheet account reconciliations. This includes a variety of asset, liability, and net asset accounts.

  5. Accurately enter fixed assets into the Lawson Asset Management system on a monthly basis.

  6. Assist the Senior Accountant with multiple aspects of the non-patient accounts receivable system, including posting, reconciling payments, monthly analysis, and making recommendations for adjustment.

  7. Assist with monthly accounting schedules by obtaining information from reports and performing accurate data entry.

  8. Assist Manager, Accounting and Senior Accountant with ad hoc general accounting and administrative tasks as required.

Qualifications

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, or accounting required.

EXPERIENCE:

Minimum one year of experience working in a general accounting department or public accounting required.

Minimum pay range

USD $50,786.11/Yr.

Maximum pay range

USD $87,503.31/Yr.

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Vacancy ID 13759

Pos. Category Professional/Management

Job Location : Street 1741 Ashland Ave

# of Hours 40.00

Job Locations US-MD-Baltimore

Pos. Type Regular Full Time

Department : Name Finance

Equal Opportunity Provider & Employer M/F/Disability/ProtectedVet

How this job compares

Set against the 4,924 open Accounting jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$51–88K/yr
  • Maryland median$84–133K/yr48 salary ranges
  • US median$95–136K/yr2,430 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $69K, is 37% below the Maryland median midpoint ($109K) — in the lowest quarter of Accounting salary ranges in Maryland.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 82 open Accounting jobs in Maryland and 4,924 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Maryland
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Accounting postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,631 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 2,454 of the 4,924 open Accounting jobs (50%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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