Senior Accountant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Missouri.

📋 Description

• Oversee, guide, and mentor members of the accounting team.

• Prepare and record journal entries while ensuring the accuracy of financial records and documentation.

• Conduct monthly reconciliations of balance sheet accounts and complete month-end closing procedures.

• Review financial statements to ensure accuracy and completeness.

• Analyze accounting data, clarify transactions, identify financial alternatives, and suggest courses of action.

• Collaborate with department heads, program managers, and stakeholders to provide accounting assistance.

• Apply Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to document financial activities and verify transactions.

• Generate reports and present financial insights and recommendations.

• Compile year-end documentation and assist with the annual external audit.

• Convey financial information, concerns, and solutions to the Accounting Manager.

• Assist with capital asset acquisitions, fixed-asset records, and monthly depreciation calculations.

• Support activities related to budgeting and forecasting.

• Aid in accounting tasks associated with grants, HUD, and LIHTC projects.

• Lead or participate in special projects and finance initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance is preferred.

• A minimum of seven years of accounting experience is preferred.

• Strong understanding of accounting principles, practices, standards, laws, and regulations, including GAAP.

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel.

• Ability to learn and effectively utilize Workday financial software.

• Excellent analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving abilities.

• Strong organizational and time-management skills, including the ability to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities.

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

• Collaborative, team-oriented mindset with a sense of ownership and pride in the quality of work.

• Valid driver’s license, acceptable driving record, and current automobile insurance.

• Successful completion of necessary background checks, including criminal record, driving record, abuse and neglect, and fingerprint checks.

• Capability to perform sedentary work and engage in repetitive hand, finger, and arm movements for typing and/or writing.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program – 24/7 counseling services, legal support, and financial consultation for you and your household at no cost.

• Mileage reimbursement for work-related travel.

• Discounts for employees on hotels, theme parks, attractions, and college tuition.

• Workplace culture that prioritizes employee wellbeing and a healthy workforce.

• Paid time off for full-time employees.

• Health, dental, vision, retirement, and life insurance benefits.

• Initial, ongoing, comprehensive, and supportive training.

• Opportunities for career mobility and advancement.

• A welcoming and supportive workplace culture that fosters wellbeing, health, and happiness.

• A smoke and tobacco-free work environment.