Accounting Clerk

Description

Compensation: $21.35/hour 

8:30 am -4:30 pm 

37.5 hours per week

Position Summary:

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Responsible for the day-to-day processing of purchase orders and vendor invoices.
• Serves as primary contact for staff and vendors in the resolution of purchasing matters, investigates and resolves issues relative to invoices, supplies, etc.
• Maintains designated office equipment and arranges for service when needed.
• Completes credit applications, tax-exempt paperwork, etc.
• Collects and tracks W-9s from appropriate vendors. Prepares and distributes year-end 1099’s.
• Maintains filing systems in an accurate and timely manner.
• Processes deposits.
• Manages Hartford office petty cash.
• Inputs various journal entries.
• Runs various reports as needed including vendor activity, deposit transactions, copier usage, etc.
• Performs simple reconciliations for items such as deposits, agency contributions, etc.
• Willing and able to learn financial software (Financial Edge NXT) to support the job’s functions.
• Fulfills various department requests as needed along with support with special projects.
• Other duties as assigned by the Controller and/ or Chief Financial Officer.

Requirements

 Education:

• High School Diploma or GED required. Associates Degree preferred.

Experience

• Minimum one (1) year related experience within a general accounting/office support function;

Schedule: 

• The Accounting Clerk is a full time hourly position. Work schedule Monday – Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm. Due to the nature of the work, some weekend and evening hours will be required.

Key Competencies: 

• Seeks to cultivate and develop inclusive and equitable working relationships with key stakeholders, i.e., staff, volunteers, interns, board members, and community members;
• Demonstrated skill in the understanding of cultural differences;
• Engages in (or commits to) personal and professional development on diversity, equity and inclusion issues;
• Demonstrates a willingness to examine one’s biases, assumptions, and attitudes;
• Maintains productive work relationships while considering multiple perspectives;
• Demonstrates awareness of one’s and others’ social identities (e.g., race, gender, disability status, religion, etc.) and their relevance in the workplace;
• Experience resolving cross-cultural conflicts effectively;
• Promotes a respectful, diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment in which concerns are addressed effectively.

Skills: 

• Collaboration: Enlists active participation of others to solve problems.
• Confidentiality: Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive and proprietary business information.
• Customer Focus: Builds effective relationships with customers, identifies customer expectations, tries to see issues from their point of view; offers practical solutions to concerns.
• Diversity: Recognizes and values the diversity and uniqueness of others. Empathetically and respectfully accepts these differences and works cooperatively and sincerely to optimize contributions of all individuals.
• Ethics & Integrity: Makes decisions and conducts self-consistent with organizations mission. Respects all individuals in the work environment. Demonstrates high personal standards of acceptance reliability and openness to others. Accepts responsibility for their own actions including failures. Does not seek to blame others. 
• Personal Accountability: Accepts responsibility for own actions, including failure. Embraces experience as learning opportunities and not chances to blame.
• Quality Assurance: Demonstrated ability to produce accurate and timely processing of detailed accounting transactions.
• Technical Skills: Possesses the knowledge and abilities necessary to perform required job elements to established standards.
• Time Management: Allocates time efficiently to the most important issues and knows what not to spent time on; completes work in a timely manner. Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple and changing work assignments and priorities;
• Work Relationships: Builds productive relationships in the workplace to achieve goals.

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Comprehensive Benefit Package

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