Senior Staff Accountant - Detroit, United States - Vaco

Description

Job Title: Senior Accountant

Job Summary: Under limited supervision, the Senior Accountant utilizes intermediate skills obtained through experience and training to provide timely, efficient, and high-quality accounting and financial services. This role involves reviewing the work of Accounts Payable (AP) team members, completing general ledger entries and work papers, and supporting budgets and financial reporting. The Senior Accountant identifies and recommends solutions to moderately complex problems and maintains regular and extensive contact with internal team members and other business units to meet objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review and reconcile accounting transactions for proper classification in accordance with GAAP, applicable federal regulations, and performance standards.
• Perform monthly close processes, ensuring timely resolution of outstanding issues.
• Perform monthly bank and investment reconciliations as needed.
• Create and post accrual journal entries for revenue and expense accounts.
• Create and post adjusting journal entries as needed.
• Prepare financial statements and reports, including variance analyses comparing to prior periods and budget.
• Prepare supporting schedules for quarterly reviews and annual audits, including 941 payroll reconciliations.
• Support Accounts Payable as needed.
• Assist with maintaining and verifying program inventory.
• Establish and maintain professional relationships with other departments.
• Address issues or questions from other departments related to monthly financial operating results and provide analysis of actual vs budget variances.
• Prepare client billings, including grant billings.
• Prepare regulatory reporting and review supporting documentation.
• Prepare and deliver written and oral presentations to management as needed.
• Remain current in non-profit accounting and GAAP accounting rules, regulations, policies, and techniques, as well as all grant provisions and contractual terms for programs.
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and consistent attendance.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:Knowledge of:

• Fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of work paper preparation and general ledger management.
• Fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of monthly reporting.
• Non-profit accounting, including recording and reporting of federal and non-federal funding.

Skills in:

• Operating standard office equipment and using required software applications, including Microsoft Office. Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel preferred.

Ability to:

• Maintain the confidentiality of information acquired.
• Partner with other functional areas to accomplish objectives.
• Gather information, identify linkages and trends, and apply findings to assignments.
• Attend to detail while maintaining a big picture orientation.
• Interpret and apply policies and identify and recommend changes as appropriate.
• Organize and prioritize multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Work independently as well as collaboratively within a team environment.
• Handle stressful situations and provide a high level of service in a calm and professional manner.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of the organization.

Educational/Previous Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree preferred but not required.
• Minimum 5 years of professional-level accounting experience, non-profit environment preferred.

Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

EEO Notice

Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact .

Vaco also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

Privacy Notice

Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries ("we," "our," or "Vaco") respects your privacy and are committed to providing transparent notice of our policies.

• California residents may access Vaco's HR Notice at Collection for California Applicants and Employees here.
• Virginia residents may access our state specific policies here.
• Residents of all other states may access our policies here.
• Canadian residents may access our policies in English here and in French here.
• Residents of countries governed by GDPR may access our policies here.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.