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Junior Accountant

Full-time

LTD Global

About the Organization
A leading nonprofit animal welfare organization dedicated to protecting animals, inspiring compassion, and strengthening the bond between people and pets. Through sheltering, veterinary services, wildlife rehabilitation, and community outreach, the organization provides vital programs that save lives and create a more humane community .

About the Role
We're looking for a Junior Accountant to help ensure the financial integrity of our general ledger and support timely, smooth month-end and year-end closes. This position reconciles account balances and bank statements and owns our payroll function and related reporting. It's a hands-on role performed fully on-site.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
  • Support day-to-day and monthly accounting operations, including account reconciliations, journal entries, and initiating reimbursements for some receivables
  • Help maintain an accurate general ledger database and ensure integrity between the GL and development database
  • Contribute to external audits by preparing schedules, coordinating projects, and providing accurate, relevant reporting
  • Document and maintain policies, procedures, and workflows for assigned areas of responsibility
  • Perform bi-weekly payroll processing and related reporting, including verifying timesheets and union dues
  • Work with Human Resources to ensure accurate employee setup/changes in payroll, benefit/union deductions, reporting, and accruals; resolve payroll discrepancies; process and maintain retirement transmissions, reports, and census; prepare final checks on time
  • Prepare bank reconciliations and investigate discrepancies
  • Maintain fixed asset and depreciation schedules
  • Maintain schedules for select prepaid expenses, amortizing and recording monthly allocation expenses as appropriate
  • Prepare certain monthly reports in a timely manner
  • Assist with departmental and organizational special projects as assigned
  • Assist with budget preparation as necessary
  • Perform other accounting duties as assigned
Qualifications
Education & Experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting from a four-year college or university, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
  • Minimum of 2 years' experience in a similar role
  • Thorough understanding of accounting and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
  • Experience with Blackbaud Financial Edge and ADP Workforce Now strongly preferred
Skills
  • Strong time management, problem-solving, and organizational skills
  • Detail-oriented, with the ability to effectively prioritize competing projects
  • Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and/or governmental regulations
  • Ability to write clear reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
  • Ability to present information and respond to questions from managers, employees, clients, customers, and the public
  • Solid math skills: calculating earnings, labor hours, overtime, discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, and volume; basic algebra
  • Sound judgment applying instructions in written, oral, or diagram form; able to work through problems involving multiple variables in standardized situations
Technical Skills
  • Knowledge of computerized general ledger systems (e.g., Blackbaud Financial Edge)
  • Knowledge of payroll systems (e.g., ADP Workforce Now)
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook)
Other Requirements
  • Must pass a background check upon hire

Vacancy posted 10 days ago
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