Staff Accountant

Description

At Rise, we believe that everyone deserves opportunities to live a life filled with purpose and pride. In our employment, housing, and life-enrichment services, we support people to set and achieve their personal goals. As a nonprofit, every Rise team member is driven by our mission. That shared commitment is the foundation of a workplace that embraces a culture of learning and growth by offering extensive training, competitive salaries, and a fun work environment. We are an inspiring leader in disability services that wants to make a real difference in people’s lives!

Position Summary

The Staff Accountant is responsible for day-to-day accounting operations, including maintaining financial records, preparing financial reports, reconciling accounts, and supporting accounts payable, receivable, billing, payroll, and grant accounting functions. This role plays a key part in ensuring accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, and compliance with nonprofit and grant requirements. 

Essential Duties

Key Expectations 

• Standards of Excellence Commitment: All Rise employees are expected to commit to, sign and follow-through on Rise’s Standards of Excellence. Refer to “Standards of Excellence Commitment” document. In the Employee Handbook.   
• Person-Centered Practices: Learn and consistently perform person-centered practices: Identify those things that are important to people who receive support; implement strategies to assure they are present in day-to-day life. Identify areas where change can happen without permission. Act on those areas. 
• Communication: All Rise employees are expected to communicate effectively with other staff, external stakeholders and people we serve in a respectful and timely manner. This includes but is not limited to reading and responding to email in a timely manner, answering and responding to phone calls and voicemails, foster open communication; listening to others; preparing professional written communications as needed.  

Responsibilities

Month-End Close & Financial Reporting

• Assist with monthly close and financial reporting processes
• Assist with preparing and posting journal entries, including accruals, prepaids, and allocations.
• Assist with analyzing financial results and identifying trends or variances.

Cash Receipts & Banking

• Process cash receipts & post daily transactions and maintain accurate documentation.
• Save remittance and cash receipts documentation in SharePoint & DocuWare.
• Assist with cash flow planning and forecasting.

Accounts Payable & Disbursements (Backup Support)

• Serve as backup for accounts payable functions.
• Ensure proper documentation, approvals, and audit readiness. 
• Support vendor audits and internal control processes.

Payroll & Allocation

• Prepare and review payroll-related journal entries.
• Verify payroll allocations and ensure accuracy across cost centers.
• Monitor payroll actual vs. budget and investigate discrepancies.
• Process employee reimbursements and review for policy compliance

Grant Accounting & Compliance

• Assist with grant-related journal entries and accruals
• Support grant payroll allocations and FTE analysis
• Provide support for grant audits, and funder request.

Expense Review & Account Reconciliations

• Review expenses for proper coding & approval
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations & summarize including rent and lease expenses, milage and transportation, repairs and maintenance, and professional fees.

Operational Accounting & Other Responsibilities

• Maintain insurance schedules and expense tracking by policy
• Support lease management by reviewing and updating contracts
• Assist with internal audits, including expense and compliance reviews.
• Assist with donation reconciliations and annual reporting.
• Assist with medical and non-medical billing processes.
• Support cash application and reconciliation of billing activity. 

Requirements

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Customer service mindset
• Integrity and accountability.

Required Education, Experience, and other Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Minimum of 2 years of gener