Why You Will Love Working Here
First Harvest Credit Union is a diverse, full-service financial institution serving members throughout South Jersey. We are a family of passionate people, dedicated to serving the community and living out our mission to provide quality financial solutions and world-class service to our members while delivering our social commitment in the communities we serve.
We care about our employees and strive to create an environment where people thrive, partnerships prevail, and performance excels. In addition to offering the best career development opportunities, benefits, potential for hybrid work schedule, and work environment possible, we truly listen to ideas from employees at all levels and work together to solve problems. Here at First Harvest, we work hard, play hard, reward each other, and treat each other like family.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Leads the Accounting department in a manner consistent with our mission and core values.
- Develop each employee to their highest potential by identifying their areas for improvement and appropriately coaching, training or correcting the employee's performance.
- Recognize employees who perform at a high level.
- Hold employees accountable for their performance, attitude, and behavior.
- Exhibits confidence in self and others; inspires and motivates others to perform well. Has a positive influence on the actions and opinions of others.
- Meets with each employee monthly to review previous month's performance, set goals for upcoming month's performance and develop plans to improve employee's performance.
- Ensure department goals are met as established by First Harvest CU.
- Demonstrate enthusiastic support of corporate mission, core values, and long-term objectives.
- Performs job duties within our bylaws, regulations, Board of Directors policies, established internal and external service standards and our work procedures.
- Manages the accounting department, including accounts receivables, payable, auditing and owner accounting. Ensure optimal efficiency of accounting operations and adherence to stated credit union policies.
- Assists with the preparation of for all monthly, quarterly and yearly financial statements and the accuracy of its entries.
- Evaluates, motivates, coaches, and supervises department personnel regarding policy/procedure adherence, career advancement, attendance, performance and all other related personnel issues.
- Communicates department goals to staff and monitors progress toward attainment of those goals.
- Supports and encourages staff to participate in available credit union self-development education programs and required compliance courses through self-study, BAI Learning, and the credit union's training department.
- Provides input for the budget for the department and tracks on an ongoing basis for adherence.
- Maintains and monitors general ledger and balance sheets on a daily basis; reconciles cash account, general ledger entries, and bank statements. Researches any differences and enters adjustments.
- Maintains subsidiary ledgers of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, and monitors and resolves outstanding items.
- Acts as a back-up to the Wire/EFT process, posting entries to members' accounts.
- Reviews settlement of Official Checks, cash letters, and Federal Reserve activity.
- Confirms reconciliation of the Federal Reserve account daily, researching and resolving differences.
- Reviews balances of Plateau and Money Market accounts daily, verifying funds are available for funding settlement.
- Oversees the Accounts Payable area and confirms accurate processing of invoices for payment.
- Answers telephone calls as needed and responds to member inquiries and requests. Acts as the key individual when resolving more challenging member issues.
- Schedules and conducts staff meetings within the department.
- Adheres to the FHCU Service Standards as established.
- Performs other duties or special projects as required or as assigned by a leader.
Qualification Requirements
Educational/Training Requirement:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Equivalent Experience
Experience
- Minimum 5 years in Accounting Department in a financial institution
Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
- Accounting knowledge
- Ability to develop adeptness in credit union and accounting software programs
- Highly proficient in Windows and Microsoft Office
- Excellent data entry skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to multitask
- Ability to work independently and exercise judgment
Other Requirements
Mental Requirements:
The work environment is representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands are minimal and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations.
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job duties of the position. If you need to request an accommodation please contact Talent Services at 856-232-9000 ext. 5104 or via email to TalentServices@firstharvestcu.com.
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