Bookkeeper

Bookkeeper

Responsibilities:

• Establishing accounts.
• Maintaining records of financial transactions by posting and verifying.
• Maintaining bookkeeping policies and procedures.
• Developing systems to account for financial transactions by establishing a chart of accounts.
• Maintaining subsidiary accounts by posting, verifying and allocating transactions.
• Reconciling entries to balance subsidiary accounts.
• Maintaining a balanced general ledger.
• Preparing a trial balance for the accountants.
• Preparing financial reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing accounting information.
• Ensuring compliance with federal, state and local legal requirements.
• Monitoring for variances from the projected budget.
• Advising management on compliance needs.
• Financial activities such as running payroll, generating invoices, accounts receivable and deposits.

Bookkeeper Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or related discipline (desired).
• CPA is (desired).
• Previous bookkeeping experience (required).
• Experience with QuickBooks (required).

Required Skills:

• Understanding of industry benchmarks in accounting best practices.
• Knowledge of IFRS, U.S. GAAP or other industry-standard accounting frameworks.
• Expertise in Microsoft Office, QuickBooks.
• Establishing accounts.
• Maintaining standards.
• Data entry.
• Deep understanding of accounting principles.
• Confidentiality.
• Attention to detail.
• Comfortable dealing with huge volumes of complex data.

This is an in-office position.