Accountant

Summary of Position:

Bancroft Holding Company is looking for a self-motivated Accountant to join our financial management department. In this position, you’ll play an important role in our company’s financial operations, ensuring accuracy in accounting and compliance. The Accountant is responsible for making critical financial decisions along with the management and reporting of the financial data of the organization. Duties include preparing financial statements, examining, and analyzing a company’s accounts, and ensuring compliance with financial reporting and other standard accounting procedures.     

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage all accounting transactions
• Maintain financial reports, records, and general ledger accounts
• Prepare journal entries, analyses, and account reconciliations and assist with monthly close processes
• Manage accounts payable and ensure timely bill payments
• Assist with payroll processing
• Assist with financial statements preparation
• Contribute to developing and reviewing annual operating budgets and performance projections
• Maintain documentation for accounts payable, purchasing, and treasury and conduct internal audits
• Perform monthly balance sheet accounts reconciliations
• Meet processing and reporting deadlines
• Respond to information requests, assisting with audits and tax return preparation
• Ensure compliance with GAAP
• Perform other duties as required

Behavioral Requirements:

•   Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, or Finance or related field preferred
• · 5-7 years of accounting experience, 1+ years of public accounting experience preferred
• Proficient in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), experience with QuickBooks Online
• Highly collaborative style, sincere commitment to work collaboratively with all constituent groups, including staff, clients, and contractors
• Must be flexible, analytical, highly detail-minded, organized, and responsive to requests and deadlines
• Highly motivated, self-directed, and able to work independently and efficiently
• Possess organizational savvy, understand the dynamics of the organization and its commitment to customers and use that information to establish alliances to achieve organizational objectives

The above is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities for this job, nor is it intended to be an exhaustive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, it is intended to describe the general nature of the job.  Employees may, from time to time and on an as-needed basis, be required to perform duties outside of the responsibilities listed here.