Staff Accountant I

Essential Job Duties And Responsibilities:

• Reconciliations for Employee Insurance.
• Tracking utilities for GCI buildings.
• Credit card transactions both expense and receipts: perform data entry, post the payment, reconcile, and sync to Quickbooks on a daily basis.
• Maintain grant sheets for Chief Program Officer.
• Accounts Payable (Backup):   
• Assembles reviews and verifies invoices against purchase orders.
• Enters invoices as bills and prints checks out of QuickBooks. 
• Responds to all internal and external accounts payable inquiries.
• Monitors account to ensure payments are up to date.
• Performs research and resolves invoice discrepancies and issues.
• Maintains vendor files and scans all accounts payable documentation in the accounting drive.
• Provides supporting documentation and schedules for auditors.
• Backup for Payroll.
• Backup for customer invoicing.
• Other duties as assigned by the Controller, CFO, and supervisor.

Qualification Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.  The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance or a minimum of two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience required. 
• At least 1-year experience in a clerical position is required.
• Excellent computer skills, and knowledge in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google documents, sheets, and media platforms (Zoom).
• Not-for-profit industry experience preferred
• QuickBooks experience helpful
• Knowledge of accounting principles and finance 
• Detail Oriented
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Must have great organizational skills
• Ability to prioritize
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to make independent decisions
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office Excel and Word
• Ability to meet multiple deadlines
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment

Working Conditions:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines. Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk.

This job description intends to provide a representative summary of the essential functions that will be required of the position given this title and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees will be assigned specific job-related duties through their hiring department. Specific job-related duties assigned by the hiring department shall be consistent with the representative essential functions listed above and shall not be expanded in role or scope.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

This position also requires regular talking and hearing. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision such as the ability to read handwritten or typed material, and the ability to adjust focus. In addition, the position requires distance, color, peripheral, and depth perception vision abilities. The position requires the individual to meet multiple demands from several people and interact with other staff. The employee is required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. This job requires occasionally lifting office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer

GCI is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, creed, ancestry, age, sex, gender, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, citizenship, disability, genetic information, veteran status, service member status or any other category protected by federal, state or local law. Preventing discrimination is the responsibility of every employee in the way employees treat and interact with one another. Therefore, GCI expects all work relations to be business-like and professional, free of bias, prejudice, harassment, and/or discrimination.

GCI's policy of Equal Opportunity extends to all conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, placement, training, compensation, discipline, transfers, separation, layoff, recall, leave of absence, and promotion. GCI will not tolerate any discrimination in the workplace, and it is expected that any employee who believes they have been subjected to any practice that appears to be inconsistent with this policy will contact Human Resources.  Improper interference with the ability of GCI's employees to perform their expected job duties is not tolerated.

GCI encourages reporting incidents or concerns regarding discrimination to the Director of Human Resources, so that prompt and constructive action can be taken.  There will be no retaliation or adverse action against an employee for raising an issue or complaint according to this policy.  The report will be investigated to determine what if any, responsive action is necessary and appropriate.  Any employee found responsible for an inappropriate or discriminatory act will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including separation.