Staff Accountant
Location: Stamford, CT – full-time onsite
Compensation: $60,000 – $75,000 depending on experience
About the organization:
- A welcoming community organization that brings together people of all ages and backgrounds to connect, learn, grow, and build meaningful relationships.
- Offers a broad range of educational, cultural, fitness, recreational, arts, and social programs for children, teens, adults, and older adults.
- Great work/life balance
- Strong benefits – including a pension plan and 403b plan
Responsibilities:
- Download weekly revenue and cash receipts transactions from the Membership Management System and reconcile cash transactions to their bank statement.
- Upload reconciled sub-ledger transactions to QuickBooks online
- Maintain and update mapping of G/L codes from sub-ledger to QuickBooks online
- Prepare all cash and check deposits for
- Record cash transactions from bank statements into QuickBooks
- Prepare journal entries for monthly close including depreciation, amortization and accruals to properly record GAAP financial statements.
- Prepare payroll journal entries downloaded from ADP and coded properly to be uploaded into QuickBooks and create payroll reports including analyses as
- Prepare account analyses for all material Balance Sheet accounts monthly.
- Prepare pension and benefits reports to be transmitted to actuaries and Federation to calculate employee contributions.
- Communicate with actuaries and Federation to resolve any issues with contributions and file transmissions.
- Assist Senior Director of Finance in the preparation of the agency budget including meeting with program managers to discuss performance of programs.
- Assist in the budget versus actual analysis and forecasting
- Assist with audit preparation by preparing schedules and gathering supporting documentation
- Prepare ad hoc reports and work on special projects as necessary including accounting for spending on specific grants.
Desired Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or business-related field
- 1-3+ years of accounting experience.
- Experience with QuickBooks Online
- Experience with Advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs) is a plus.
