Staff Accountant

In this position, you will be solely responsible for the overall tracking, implementation, and disposal of fixed assets, maintaining multiple company credit cards and their overall balance, investment management, lease management, monthly investment and bank reconciliations, and daily cash balance reporting. You will also work with others within the accounting department to support the following tasks: weekly A/P check run, cash receipts, and general assistance and backup for the A/P and A/R specialist roles. This role reports to the Director of Accounting and works closely with the rest of the accounting team to accomplish multiple necessary tasks to ensure the organization adheres to all Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Prepare asset entries in an asset management system to be reviewed by the director of accounting for accuracy. Maintain asset records and associated depreciation for both tangible and intangible assets. Enter and maintain finance lease data into an external lease management system. Apply GL coding to credit card charges using a credit card expense management system with the end goal of providing a summarized journal entry to be posted to our ERP system. Assist users with general credit card inquiries and convey company rules for new users. Maintain user company credit card activity, individual user limits, and request credit vendor payments using an external expense management program. Process employee travel expense reports in expense management program and generate regular journal entries to transfer that information to our ERP general ledger. Calculate realized and unrealized gains for investment accounts on a monthly basis and prepare associated journal entries to post to our ERP general ledger. Prepare annual deliverables for related business entities including trial balance, income statement, balance sheet, and other miscellaneous reports. Calculate expense allocations to related business entities. Communicate directly with banks, investment firms, and other external customer service groups to assist the organization in resolving issues we come across in our accounting systems. Process cash transfers, prepare ACH/wire templates and payments for approved payments. Prepare company cash sheet daily by navigating bank and investment portals online. Reconcile cash and investment accounts on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis against monthly statements provided by the related institutions. Reconcile asset accounts on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis against reports generated by our asset management program. Compile and provide requested materials during the annual financial audit. Stock certificate management: Create new stock certificates, process voided certificates, and maintain the stock ledger. Perform Accounts Receivable duties, including customer invoicing, cash application, collections follow-up, aging analysis, and related journal entries/reconciliations. Backup AP Specialist when needed by doing the following: Vendor entry, prepare weekly check run, enter AP invoices, matching of receipts made against POs to related invoices, process returns, negotiating vendor terms, W-9 solicitation, and 1099 processing. KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS THAT ARE REQUIRED TO FULFILL THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 5+ years of accounting experience including substantive knowledge and understanding of general ledger accounting, journal entries, and month-end closing processes A working knowledge of fixed assts, depreciation and experience performing account reconciliations Excellent oral and written communication skills Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail and accuracy REQUIRED EHTICAL QUALITIES AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT: Unquestionable integrity and honesty in handling financial records, cash, assets, stock certificates, and confidential company information Strict adherence to company policies, internal controls, and applicable accounting standards (GAAP) Commitment to confiden ial