Job Details
Job Location
HOUSTON, TX
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
4 Year Degree
Job Shift
Day
Job Category
Nonprofit - Social Services
Description
Being a Staff Accountant at HAWC you will perform 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
• 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. OR8 a.m.- 5 p.m.
• Work Model: hybrid
• Local Travel:0%

Our Total Compensation Package:

• Starting Pay Rate: $70,000 annually
• 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 the agency matches 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 from an accredited university or related experience in lieu of education.
• A minimum of one year of experience as an accountant for degree holders

OR

• 5 years of related experience for non-degree holders.
• A strong understanding and working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, and Teams).
• Experience in the use of accounting systems, preferably Abila (Sage) MIP.

What you Deliver in this role:

• You will 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 will assist in monthly, quarterly, and annual closings.
• You will reconcile payments utilizing internal tools and systems ensuring accurate documentation, analysis, and preparing reports as requested to support leadership.
• You will maintain the general ledger, ensure the daily posting of transactions.
• You will enter approved checks into the agency's banking and monitor positive pay exceptions.
• You will download daily transactions from the bank file. Review and analyze transactions; notify departments for wire transfers, ACH deposits, and credit card deposits.
• You will review, analyze, prepare journal entries, and input into financial system.
• You willprepare and report daily cash balances to leadership.
• You will assist with the annual financial audit and monitoring visits as assigned.
• You will 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 will maintain employee and proprietary confidentiality of information.
• Projects and other duties/projects may be assigned.

What Skills and Assets you bring, and more:

• Excellent attention to details
• 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
• A strong understanding and working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Experience in the use of accounting systems, preferably Abila (Sage) MIP.
• 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.