What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Accountant position at Kelso Building Services?
About The Role
This is a hands-on, close-cycle role with clear monthly deliverables, and a path toward work in reconciliations, tax and controls.
What You'll Do
Cash application and AR
This is a hands-on, close-cycle role with clear monthly deliverables, and a path toward work in reconciliations, tax and controls.
What You'll Do
Cash application and AR
- Apply customer payments (checks, ACH, wires, card) against open invoices
- Clear unapplied cash, short-pays and overpayments, working with our credit team
- Produce AR aging and unapplied-cash reporting for management and credit
- Reconcile all bank accounts monthly and investigate reconciling items promptly
- Flag unusual or unauthorized activity right away
- Reconcile Ramp monthly and review transaction coding
- Manage Ramp access and maintenance
- Maintain the fixed asset register: additions, depreciation, disposals and the monthly roll-forward
- Manage certificates of insurance (COIs)
- Prepare sales tax workpapers for the senior accountant's filings
- Deliver your reconciliations and schedules on the close calendar and support audit requests
- Assist with Journal Entries
- Bachelor's degree in accounting (Preferred)
- 2–4 years of general accounting experience, including account reconciliations
- Solid understanding of GAAP and the month-end close
- Experience with an ERP or accounting system such as NetSuite or QuickBooks Online
- Reliability on deadlines and clear, timely communication when something is off
- NetSuite experience
- Construction or contractor accounting experience
- Multi-state sales tax exposure
- Ramp or another corporate card platform
- Bank reconciliations complete within 5 business days of month-end
- Unapplied cash kept current and aging down
- Ramp transactions coded and reconciled by close
- Fixed asset roll-forward ties to the general ledger every month
- COIs current, with gaps flagged before they become a problem