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 in setting and achieving 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!

Job Summary:

The Staff Accountant is responsible for day-to-day accounting tasks, including but not limited to maintaining financial records, preparing financial reports, reconciling accounts, managing accounts payable and receivable, and assisting with billing and payroll journal entries.

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 the 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, fostering open communication, listening to others, and preparing professional written communications. 

Essential Functions:

• Assist with the month-end accounting close process and financial reporting.
• Record monthly accounting entries related to revenue, expenses, assets, and liabilities as assigned, such as prepaid & accruals, bank reconciliations, and reconcile donations
• Assist with purchases, accounts payable, and other disbursements processing and reporting as needed.
• Act as a backup to the Account Payable Specialist and help with processing vendor contracts, housing rent payments, ACH posting & tracking, P-cards management, 1099’s, new vendor setup, insurance, leases, Docuware, unclaimed property, allocations of expenses, outstanding PS payroll checks, benefit accruals and payroll JE’s
• Manage building & improvement expense summary, vehicle & transportation expense summary, wages budget vs. actual by cost center by position
• Serve as a backup to the industrial billing team and assist with monthly reporting and meetings
• Support the Grant Accountant with grant disbursements, single audit compliance, funder backup, indirect cost rate documentation, and calculations, generate grant desk audit support, allocated grant payroll backup monthly
• Assist the Senior Accountant in processing weekly/biweekly billing for assigned programs in myEvolv
• Support in the preparation and processing of medical billing, including processing medical & non-medical cash receipts for assigned programs
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Key Competencies

• Service-focus – focus on customer (internal and external) needs
• Interpersonal skills – positive behaviors; build relationships; value diversity; manage disagreements; act with integrity; demonstrate adaptability; show work commitment
• Thinking skills – think strategically, analyze issues, use sound judgment, innovate
• Self-management – use time effectively and efficiently; concentrates efforts on the most important priorities; adeptly handles several tasks at once.
• Compassion – genuinely cares about people; is available and ready to help; demonstrates real empathy with the joys and pains of others
• Perseverance - pursues tasks with energy, drive, and a need to finish; does not give up before finishing, even in the face of resistance or setbacks; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Decision Quality & Problem Solving - uses analysis, wisdom, experience, and logical methods to make good decisions and solve difficult problems with effective solutions; appropriately incorporates multiple inputs to establish shared ownership and effective action

Required Education, Experience, and Other Qualifications

• Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; or equivalent experience
• Two years general accounting experience, preferably in