What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Accountant position at SafeLease?
As a Staff Accountant you will be supporting the daily and weekly needs of the Accounting/Finance team. We seek a motivated, self-starter who prioritizes attention to detail and accuracy. The Staff Accountant must be able to work with sensitive and confidential information, so trustworthiness is important, as well as strong verbal and written communication skills as we work in a team-oriented environment.
We are looking for well-organized and steadfast problem solvers, who love to learn and grow in their craft.
Reports to: Senior Accounting Manager
\n- Provide key support to various finance functions
- Implement systems, software, processes, & procedures
- Maintain a system of controls over all accounting transactions
- Assist with issuing timely and accuratemonthlyfinancial statements
- Ensure clients are invoiced timely and accurately
- Facilitate collection efforts
- Apply client payments
- Ensure balance sheet reconciliations are completed within deadlines
- Assist with annual audit requests
- Comply with local, state, and federal government reporting and tax filings
- Ad hoc reporting as required including special projects as necessary
- Work with Senior Accounting Manager to draft SOPs and company accounting policies to streamline work
- Possess a customer service mind-set to ensure all internal and external customers are satisfied
- Excel
- Sage Intacct
- Metabase (SQL)
- FloQast
- Quickbooks Online
- Ramp
- Rippling
- Business or accounting degree
- High level of proficiency with Excel
- Experience with multi-entity operations
- Ability to work in a remote environment
- Demonstrate 2 years of progressively responsible experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Positive attitude and ability to be self-motivated and work in a team or individually
- Customer service mindset
*If you don't have all the qualifications listed, don't worry! We understand everyone's career path is unique and still encourage you to apply if you feel this role is aligned with your career trajectory.
Bonus points if you have:
- CPA, Chartered Accountant, or equivalent with public accounting experience
- Familiarity with SAGE Intacct accounting software
