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Full Charge Bookkeeper
Description: Part-Time (Approx. 20 hours/week) The Full Charge Bookkeeper will perform full cycle accounting, including accounts receivable, accounts payable, cash applications, general ledger, journal entries, trial balance, and bank reconciliations.
Basic Responsibilities/Functions:
- Processing all payables - full cycle from opening envelopes to mailing checks
- Processing all receivables - invoicing, cash applications, collections
- Heavy Bank and General Ledger reconciliations
- Month-end close process
- Assisting CPA with year-end close process
- Manage monthly employee expense processing and reporting
- Assist with maintaining financial spreadsheets and reports
- Manage Accounts Receivable collections
- Assist with Tax preparation
- Journal entries
- Set up and maintain vendor accounts in accounting program with periodic communication
- Accruals and prepaid schedules
- Entering bills into QuickBooks
- Filing
- Setting up procedures and processes
- Assisting with other accounting projects as needed
Required skills:
- 5+ years of full-charge bookkeeping experience
- Strong proficiency in QuickBooks and Microsoft Office
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to produce quality materials within tight timeframes
- Ability to simultaneously manage several projects
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Positive references – track record of succes
- Ability to multi-task and self-start
- Capable of working independently
- Flexibility in response to changing office needs or requests
- Attention to detail
- Familiarity with internet
- Ability to create, organize and progressively update files
- Ability to follow procedures and keep records
- Assisting with other accounting projects as needed
- Ability to accept additional responsibilities and assist others as needed
- Friendly and professional demeanor
Senior Accountant
Job Description/Responsibilities: The senior accountant functions as the person in charge of the field work. He/she is in charge of day-to-day conduct of the work. Usually this individual is a CPA. Depending on the size of the engagement, the in-charge accountant may assume some of the functions of a higher level person or occasionally those of the staff accountant.
Basic Responsibilities/Functions:
- Develop relations with client's accounting personnel
- Make decisions on routine matters
- Bring unusual or significant accounting/auditing questions to the attention of the engagement executive
- Prepare financial statements
- Perform accounting/auditing work as assigned
- Supervise, review and evaluate assistants
- Plan engagements under supervision of engagement executive
- Determine that permanent files have been updated
- Prepare audit programs
- Perform more difficult or complex procedures, such as evaluation of allowance for doubtful accounts, inventory obsolescence and valuation, depreciation methods, unrecorded liabilities, etc.
- Prepare management letter
- Suggest audit, management services and tax planning ideas to superior; prepare routine correspondence to the client for approval and signature of the engagement executive
- Prepare income tax returns
- Recognize tax problems
- Prepare and complete all work in accordance with the Firm policies and procedures
- Review all workpapers prepared by assistants to ensure that they are complete and adequate
- Begin to undertake some Practice Development type activities
- Prepare or update engagement letter
- Prepare representation letter
Staff Accountant
Job Description/Responsibilities: The work of staff accountants is the foundation on which the work of others is based. As staff accountants gain experience on proficiency, they are given more difficult assignments and greater responsibility, including some of the duties of the in-charge accountant. In due course, they should be handling entire engagements as an in-charge accountant.
Basic Responsibilities/Functions:
- Work on various audit, accounting, or tax engagements under direct supervision of a superior (depending on the size of the engagement, the superior could be in-charge, supervisor/supervising senior, manager or shareholder)
- Become familiar with the Firm's policies and procedures, manuals and forms
- Assist/prepare financial statements, using a provided format guide
- Perform any other work assigned by a superior
- Prepare workpapers following the Firm policies and procedures
- Bring unusual/significant accounting and auditing questions to the in-charge accountant
Examples of Work Performed:
- Review and test internal control systems
- Prepare working trial balance and adjusting journal entries
- Reconcile bank accounts
- Prepare schedules of assets, liabilities, and related revenue and expense accounts
- Maintain property and equipment records, and calculate depreciation and amortization
- Reconcile subsidiary accounts to control accounts
- Foot columns and test extensions
- Trace entries to original and other sources
- Examine vouchers and other types of source documents
- Prepare and mail confirmation requests
- Perform year-end cutoff procedures, including inventory observation, petty cash counts, and shipping and receiving documentation
- Schedule confirmation returned, list exceptions and follow-up on their disposition
- Prepare statistical and account analyses, including listing of data, recording data from one format to another, and calculating percentage relationships
- Prepare payroll, sales, property and other types of local tax returns
- Prepare simple corporate and partnership income tax returns
- Prepare individual income tax returns