Job Details Job Location: HOUSTON, TX Position Type: Full Time Education Level: 4 Year Degree Salary Range: Undisclosed Travel Percentage: None Job Shift: Day Job Category: Accounting
Description
Being a Senior Staff Accountant at HAWC you will perform complex accounting work involving the recording, analysis, and reporting of financial data in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as well as federal and state guidelines for general accounting. Additional accounting functions include assisting in month and year-end closures, year-audits, grant related audits, and other audits. The successful candidate will have strong analytical, communication, organizational, and time management skills.
Your Schedule:
- Full Time
- Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. or 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
- Work Model: hybrid
- Local Travel: 0%
Our Total Compensation Package:
- Starting Pay Rate: $76,000 yearly
- Pay schedule semi-monthly
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance Programs
- Generous Paid Time Off - 11 paid holidays per year, 3 personal holidays per year, 15 paid vacation days per year, approx 7 hours per month of accrued sick days
- 401K with agency matching 125% of employee contributions up to 4% of the annual salary of a full-time employee
- Company paid Life Insurance
- Company paid Long Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in people’s lives. Working at Houston Area Women’s Center gives you a rewarding experience in which our diverse team of employees work together as part of the empowerment of a survivor’s life and at the same time part of a much larger mission. We are committed to doing the work and challenging each other to be an organization in which everyone is respected and heard. Every day we continue to embed diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity in everything we do as we provide service to survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
Qualifications
The Requirements We are Seeking:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
- A minimum of three years of experience as an accountant
- Advanced in Microsoft Office specifically Excel and Outlook
- Experience in the use of automated accounting systems; Abila (Sage) MIP is strongly preferred
- You have a valid Texas driver’s license with a good driving record; reliable transportation; ability to travel to off-site locations utilizing personal transportation
What you Deliver in this role:
- You assist in monthly and annual reconciliation of agency accounts while ensuring all activity is in full compliance with GAAP, agency, funder, state, and federal accounting standards and requirements
- You assist in monthly, quarterly, and annual closings
- You reconcile payments utilizing internal tools and systems ensuring accurate documentation, analysis, and preparing reports as requested to support leadership
- You maintain the general ledger; ensure the daily posting of transactions
- You prepare and maintain the investment reporting
- You reconcile the investment account, prepare journal entries, and prepare leadership reports
- You record payroll transactions and partner with the Payroll Administrator in the reconciliation of personal expenses
- You assist with the annual financial audit and monitoring visits as assigned
- You collaborate with internal stakeholders to research financial transactions, conduct analysis, and create reports to support decision-making and to support the agency's strategic plan
- You maintain employee and proprietary confidentiality of information
- You assist in creating and facilitating training for employees in general accounting or other program positions as appropriate
- You prepare complex accounting reconciliation and analysis to determine the accuracy of financial data, initiate needed adjustments and corrections and provide needed explanations of transactions
- You research complex issues and recommend process and operational improvements as needed
- You serve as a back-up for the Staff Accountant for leaves and vacation
- You create a desk manual of workflows and processes that are position specific
- Projects and other duties/projects may be assigned
What Skills and Assets you bring, and more:
- Excellent attention to detail
- Demonstration of professional objectivity and appreciation for confidential information
- Ability to follow instructions and to adhere to policies and procedures
- Ability to prioritize tasks to meet individual and team deadlines
- Advanced understanding and working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Has a growth mindset and is a good team player
- Strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing
When you work here at HAWC you make an impact not just in the lives of the survivors and the people you help, but also make an impact in our own lives and our community. We learn and grow with a purpose where we strive to work for a common cause, which is to end domestic and sexual violence for ALL.
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