Accounting Associate

Build your career in a place where learning is encouraged and growth comes with collaboration

About the Position

Are you a detail-driven professional who thrives on keeping financial operations running smoothly? We’re looking for an Accounting Associate to take ownership of processing invoices, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring timely, accurate payments.

In this role, you’ll review invoices, verify expenses, maintain organized financial records, and support a range of general accounting tasks. You’ll work with internal teams and vendors to resolve discrepancies and assist with routine accounting activities and month-end reporting. This position is ideal for someone eager to grow their accounting skills—your attention to detail, communication abilities, and organization will be key. If you enjoy problem-solving and keeping financial operations running smoothly, you’ll find plenty of opportunity to grow within our supportive team.

Benefits:

At Elevate, we are proud to offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. Our benefits include:

• Paid Time Off.
• Paid Holidays.
• 401K with Employer Match.
• Flexible Spend Accounts.
• Health Savings Account.
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Company paid life insurance.
• Company paid short-term disability and long-term disability insurance.

What You’ll Do:

• Elevate Invoice Accuracy and Processing: Audit invoices for accuracy, assign proper GL coding, and ensure they are posted to the correct period. Process bi-weekly check runs and monthly credit card statements with precision and efficiency.
• Elevate Vendor Management and Compliance: Maintain strong relationships with vendors by ensuring proper documentation is in place for setup and insurance coverage. Obtain lien waivers from property contractors before releasing payments and respond promptly to vendor and property manager inquiries.
• Elevate Financial Oversight: Review vendor statements to confirm all expenses are recorded, research expense variances at the end of each period, and process monthly petty cash reimbursement checks to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Elevate Communication and Problem-Solving: Work closely with internal teams and external partners to address questions and discrepancies. Your proactive approach ensures financial operations run smoothly and efficiently.

Who You Are:

• Elevated Accuracy and Organization: You have a sharp eye for detail and a knack for keeping financial records precise. Whether it's auditing invoices, assigning GL codes, or reconciling statements, you take pride in ensuring everything is accounted for and processed correctly.
• Elevated Insight: You don’t just process numbers—you understand them. From researching expense variances to handling lien waivers, you approach each task with a problem-solving mindset, making sure payments are accurate and compliant.
• Elevated Action Orientation: You thrive in a fast-paced environment, taking ownership of tasks like processing check runs, credit card statements, and petty cash reimbursements. Your ability to stay ahead of deadlines keeps operations seamless and efficient.

Qualifications:

This is a great opportunity for early-career candidates who bring a keen eye for detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. Ideal candidates will have a basic understanding of financial processes, a willingness to learn, excellent communication skills, and a proactive approach to problem-solving as they expand their accounting knowledge. We expect you to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or another quantitative field or equivalent experience in accounts payable preferred.
• A high level of curiosity and willingness to ask the ‘why’ questions.
• Motivation to learn & constantly improve processes and tools.
• Ability to collect data, establish facts & draw valid conclusions.
• A tenacity for high accuracy, completing your work, and meeting deadlines.
• A desire to volunteer for new challenges without waiting to be asked.
• A high school diploma required, associate or bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Proficiency using MS Office.
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently with multitasking given on business needs.
• Proven capabilities to communicate effectively to remote individuals.
• Ability to communicate in writing and verbally with all levels of employees.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suites.

About the Company:
At Elevate Living, our mission is to create quality living environments for our residents that they can be proud to call home. We are a team of committed professionals, working together to enhance the lives of our residents and each other. We accomplish this mission through a collaborative, action-oriented culture that honors accountability and rewards exceptional customer service.

Elevate Living owns and manages 47 multi-family residential properties in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Missouri, and North Dakota totaling about 7,000 units. We are a growing, fast paced and entrepreneurially minded company where you can have an impact!

To be considered for this position, please complete and submit an online application at: https://secure3.entertimeonline.com/ta/6119491.careers?CareersSearch.