The Alzheimer's Association is seeking to hire a Accounting & Finance Senior Specialist professional. This position is based at the Association's Home Office in downtown Chicago, IL.
Interested candidates who meet the following criteria are warmly invited to apply.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Maintain fixed asset records.
- Maintain chart of accounts.
- Prepare monthly journal entries as required for Home Office as assigned.
- Maintain accuracy and control of general journal entry filings, binders and financial upload documents.
- Prepare monthly account reconciliations, resolving all reconciling items and discrepancies in a timely manner as required for Home Office.
- Perform account analysis as required, including Conferences, for Home Office.
- Assist with and/or run and review daily upload from donor data base to accounting system.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s Degree, Accounting
Skills/Experience:
- Minimum four years of financial accounting experience, including journal entry, cash account reconciliation, and balance sheet account reconciliation experience. Not for profit experience preferred.
- Proficient with monthly closings; experience with preparing a large organization for year-end audit
- Proficient with MS products (Outlook, Word, Excel).
- Able to communicate financial information effectively in person, in writing, or by phone.
- Proficiency with automated accounting systems. Prefer SAGE and Fixed Asset System.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to recognize and resolve accounting discrepancies monthly.
- Ability to understand and explain accounting principles and reporting systems.
- Ability to reconcile complex bank statements in a timely manner
- Ability to prepare depreciation, prepaid expense, deferred revenue journal entries as well as reconcile same accounts in a timely manner.
- Must be detail oriented and highly organized
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jun 1 2019
Active Until:
Jul 1 2019
Hiring Organization:
Alzheimer's Association
industry:
Nonprofit