Bookkeeper

Job Summary: Responsible for all aspects of the data entry for both accounts receivable and accounts payable transactions. This is a full-time 40-hour-per-week position. Monday — Friday 8 am to 5 pm. Reports to Finance and Administration Director, Accounting Manager, and Directors.

Essential Functions shall include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Perform accounting functions by keying entries into QuickBooks
• Enters accounts payable on a weekly basis
• Prepares checks for bill pay
• Scan documents into the Square 9 system
• File documents
• Audit driver envelopes
• Count and prepare cash drawer
• Perform bank deposit
• Help prepare for annual audits and coordinates with the accounting manager to ensure the timely completion of audits and reports.
• Monthly invoicing
• Participates in training seminars and professional organizations to keep abreast of changes in financial management and accounting policies.
• Ensures that rules concerning confidentiality and record retention time frames are followed.
• Maintains documentation and records in accordance with company, state, and federal regulations.
• Demonstrates behavior consistent with the organization's Mission and Values. Models and trains appropriate behavior to staff exhibits high value of team spirit.
• Maintains regular and punctual attendance per company policy.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED equivalent
• Five years of experience in bookkeeping
• Proficient computer skills in various software programs such as Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, or other similar data management systems
• Exceptional analytical, organizational skills, and mathematical aptitude.
• Must have knowledge of modern office procedures, computer equipment, English usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted in the course of work with external and internal customers.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• Work independently in the absence of supervision.
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
• Ability to pass criminal background check and drug testing per company policy, and state and federal regulations.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in an office setting.

Physical Demands: 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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel, or operate objects, tools or controls, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand, talk and hear.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: This is a full-time position. 40 hours of work a week are variable Monday through Friday.

Travel: Very little travel required.

Skills

• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Complex Problem Solving — identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Abilities

• Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences