What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Accountant position at Northbound Executive Search?
Junior Accountant
Responsibilities:
- Completes payments by receiving, processing, verifying, and reconciling invoices
- Works closely with outsourced a/p professionals and ensures accuracy of invoices processed
- Analyses invoices for proper coding and approval routing
- Verifies vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements
- Attentive to detail and performs accurate data entry
- Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances
- Charges expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice and recording entries
- Ensures credit is received for outstanding memos
- Proactively reaches out to vendors and internal departments regarding discrepancies
- Vendor Maintenance and setup
- Issues stop-payments when necessary
- Verification of expense reports
- Protecting organization by handling confidential information
- Processing and recording corporate credit card charges/payments
- Reconciling bank accounts for accounts payable, corporate credit card, time and expense, and operating cash
- Processing and sending out 1099 forms
- Adhering to Sox control requirements, ie - onboarding vendors, processing invoices, and releasing payments
Skills and Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree, preferably in a business-related major
- 1-3 years of experience in the financial services industry preferred
- Strong technical/computer skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Strong organizational skills
- Knowledge of international value added tax (VAT) is a plus
- Outstanding attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent written and oral communications skills, able to interact with bankers and employees of all levels
Salary : $70,000 - $90,000
