Accounting Assistant Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include keeping financial records updated and preparing reports in accounting software programs to process business transactions. A successful Accounting Assistant should be familiar with accounting procedures and have a flair for numbers. Ultimately, a successful candidate will ensure that the company’s daily accounting functions run accurately and effectively.

Competencies:

The following attributes are desirable for job success:

• Exceptional communication and organizational skills
• Detail oriented and accurate
• Sense of urgency
• Customer service experience
• Ability to work under pressure
• Self-motivated and self-directed
• Ability to assert oneself
• Exemplary time management skills
• Ability to work with staff in solving problems
• Ability to take direction and function as part of a team

Facilitation:

• Support duties related to accounts payable functions.
• Maintain vendors/customers in accounting programs.
• Assist with polling stores and creating weekly ranking reports.
• Enter sales and deposit data into proprietary software for daily balancing.
• Record customer credit card transactions and assist with reconciliation.
• Analyze financial information securing accuracy.
• Research and resolve discrepancies in a timely fashion.
• Maintain confidentiality of all financial data.
• Interpret and apply accounting policies, rules, and regulations to all work in order to ensure compliance with applicable standards.
• Continuous process improvement.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Full-time
• Bachelor’s Degree from four-year College or two to three years industry experience/or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Strong working knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, and Excel
• Sage 50 and Restaurant 365 experience a plus
• Effectively prioritize and multi-task
• Excellent people skills
• Ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing with peers, managers, and customers or vendors.
• Dependable & flexible
• Proactive, initiates follow-through

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $40,000.00 - $50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 
  401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Physical setting:

• 
  Office

Schedule:

• 
  8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• 
  Columbus, IN 47201: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• 
  Accounting: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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