What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Accountant position at Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport?
OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIY
The Staff Accountant performs routine to moderately complex accounting tasks related to one or more accounting functions and plays a role in maintaining accurate financial records ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
The Staff Accountant performs routine to moderately complex accounting tasks related to one or more accounting functions and plays a role in maintaining accurate financial records ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Assists with the accounts payable invoice cycle including expense coding, payments, accruals and account reconciliations.
- Reviews invoices and ensures proper coding and approval in the electronic accounts payable system.
- Ensures properly coded/approved invoices are batched over to our accounting system.
- Assists Accounts Payable Supervisor with payment batches, annual 1099 filings, and other duties as assigned.
- Conducts review and analysis of general ledger account, journal entries, bank reconciliations, and analysis for the budget to actual variances.
- Supports monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes, ensuring accuracy of reconciliations, accruals, and journal entries in accordance with GAAP.
- Ensures compliance with internal control processes and requirements.
- Performs other general accounting and administrative functions for the Senior Accountant as needed, including but not limited to, spreadsheet reporting and analysis, and other ad hoc requests.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor of Science in Accounting or related field, or equivalent experience
- Three years of related experience in an accounting environment (non-profit experience preferred)
- Good understanding of accounting fundamentals and concepts
- Good organizational skills and ability to prioritize in order to meet deadlines
- Ability to problem solve and think both creatively and logically
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (word and excel)
- Good communication skills, written and verbal, with the ability to clearly communicate to others
- Ability to complete work in a timely, accurate and thorough manner requiring minimal oversight.
- Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to interact and collaborate with diverse groups of people.
- Applicants must have general knowledge of GAAP and be proficient with spreadsheets, word processing and accounting guidelines
- Practicing Catholic preferred
