Assistant Bookkeeper

Department: Finance

Job Title: Assistant Bookkeeper

Status: Reports to Chief Financial Officer

Why work for us?

We are 45 years strong in the community.

We give back to organizations with shared values.

We offer great benefits and competitive compensation.

We are continually innovating and investing in the future.

We offer opportunities for personal and professional growth; about half of our managers were promoted from within.

Tired of working for a company that leaves you feeling like you’re not appreciated? Would you like to join a team that actually enjoys what they do and believes in making a difference?

The Brattleboro Food Co-op is owned by thousands of local shareholders and is committed to improving the quality of life for our community, one meal at a time. We offer competitive wages, great benefits, and an excellent work-life balance.

Purpose: The Assistant Bookkeeper is responsible for performing, in an efficient and accurate manner, all

bookkeeping functions, clerical functions and other duties. Also backs up Bookkeeper

when necessary.

Customer Service:

• Assists internal and external customers with questions in a prompt and courteous manner.
• Consistently pays suppliers within terms.
• Takes initiative with daily tasks.

Product Knowledge:

• Not applicable

Product Presentation and Quality:

• Not applicable

Maintenance and Conditioning:

• Not applicable

Safety:

• Handles all equipment in a safe manner.
• Alert to unsafe equipment and removes any equipment that is unsafe from usage.

Teamwork:

• Ensures department teamwork through trust and communication.

Accountability:

• Accepts responsibility for personal decisions and actions. Exemplifies honesty, integrity and ethics.
• Contributes constructively to the morale of the department.
• Shows initiative in solving issues and achieving the departmental goals.

Job Specific Functions:

• Assists with the Bookkeeper functions as necessary.
• Enters vendor invoices using QuickBooks.
• Pay vendors by monitoring discount opportunities, scheduling and preparing checks, resolving purchase order, and invoice or
  payment discrepancies.
• Record journal entries.
• Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and balancing to system reports.
• Record the daily deposit activity using reports from the POS system into QuickBooks and reconciles deposit records to the daily
  batch.
• Reviews invoices for proper charging of Sales and Use Taxes. Records and submits Use Tax to State of Vermont if not charged
  by vendor as appropriate.
• Prepares internal reports for management.
• Verifies vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements.
• Assists with maintaining member load records if necessary.
• Assist with timely payments of taxes.
• Maintains file.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Minimum of 3 years of General Finance experience.
• Understanding of basic accounting principles.
• Computer literacy, proficiency with QuickBooks, Excel spreadsheets, word processing, email.
• Complete understanding of "double entry" bookkeeping concepts and principles..
• Team player
• Analytical skills.
• Comfortable with cooperative principles and values.

At Brattleboro Food Co-op, we do not just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Brattleboro Food Co-op is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.