Accounting Assistant

About This Role

An Accounting Assistant compiles and reviews employee time and payroll data, tracks and enters deductions, and prepares paychecks accurately and timely. This role involves computing, classifying, and recording numerical data to maintain financial records, and performing routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties for primary financial data.

Responsibilities

• Compile and review employee time and payroll data
• Track and enter deductions
• Prepare paychecks accurately and timely
• Compute, classify, and record numerical data to keep financial records complete
• Perform any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting and payroll records
• Check the accuracy of figures, calculations, and postings pertaining to payroll and accounts payable data recorded by others
• Process and perform Accounts Payable duties timely and accurately
• Work as a management assistant, providing informational support for evaluation and resolution of problems and formulation of policies and procedures
• Accurately complete specific work projects as assigned
• Exercise initiative and judgment in making decisions within the scope of assigned duty

Requirements

• Associate degree in accounting or equivalent education preferred
• Minimum of two years as an office employee in a setting with demonstrated progressive administrative or accounting experience required
• Proficient in operating computer software with ability to operate electronic mail (Outlook), spreadsheets (Excel), Time and Attendance (ADP), word processing (Word), electronic document storage (Powerflow) and software for time badge/security system

Important Details

• Schedule: 80 hours per pay period, Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.