Accountant

About the Role

Assists Accounting Management with producing financial accounting and reporting in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for CWCR. Maintains assigned general ledger accounts and journal entries, and helps produce timely financial statements with daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Maintain appropriate security measures to protect confidential company information.
• Provide input or recommendations for improvements and changes in processes or services.
• Perform all duties in accordance with Chinook Winds Casino Resort customer service standards.
• Maintain all assigned general ledger accounts, journals, and schedules.
• Assist with banking activities, including bank logs, bank reconciliation, banking fees, wires, positive pay, stale-dated checks, check voids, returned checks, and ordering bank supplies.
• Prepare and examine records to produce journal entries; reconcile cash clearing and bank accounts.
• Assist with merchant services problems and issues; respond to chargeback inquiries and retrievals.
• Reconcile credit cards from the daily audits to bank accounts.
• Reconcile ATM and Check Cashing reports to bank accounts.
• Bill out any Accounts Receivable (A/R) items like Tribal Elders meal coupons and tickets, along with any CTSI Banquets.
• Reconcile Advanced Ticket Sales and prepare monthly journal entries for cash and comp revenue.
• Audit expense reports from employees for the next Accounts Payable (A/P) check run, including expense reports for charges on the company credit card; make journal entries for company credit cards as they are audited.
• Audit Banquets and investigate problems with billings and room charges.
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts.
• Prepare Miscellaneous Deposits and record the journal entries for them.
• Create, prepare, update, and publish the Daily Manager Reports (DMR’s).
• Produce inventory worksheets and generate all Cost of Sales (COS) entries for all outlets.
• Assist with Fixed Assets and run depreciation in the general ledger.
• Assist with uploads from Revenue Audit to the general ledger.
• Prepare long-term debt entries and update amortization schedules.
• Create and maintain the general ledger interface for payroll and prepare all payroll journal entries, including reconciling tips after each payroll.
• Assist with preparation and filing of 1099 forms for Accounts Payable vendors.
• Produce entertainment analysis reports to determine actual revenue of events.
• Generate the Weekly Management Report for CWCR Management and CTSI.
• Assist with internal audits from the tribe and the external audit from the outside CPA Firm.
• Prepare monthly self-insurance financials (COHO) and assist in producing monthly financial statements.
• Maintain other miscellaneous reports including 941 reconciliation, community impact spreadsheet, comp revenue to comp expense reconciliation, and NIGC Fee Schedule.
• May include soft count responsibilities (non-supervisory).
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• BS in Accounting or Business Management with an emphasis in Accounting.
• Two years of accounting experience with exposure to a broad range of financial activities and demonstrated working knowledge of financial accounting and reporting.
• Must be 21 years or older.
• Must obtain and maintain a Siletz Tribal Gaming License.

Skills

• Accuracy: Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
• Autonomy: Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Communication Skills: Ability to communicate orally clearly and concisely and in writing.
• Interpersonal Skills: Ability to get along with a variety of personalities and individuals.
• Organization: Ability to follow a systematic method of performing tasks; must be able to multi-task and successfully manage time to remain within stated department time constraints.
• Detail Orientation: Must be detail-oriented and able to track down variances and anomalies in accounting records.
• Computer Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite with advanced level in Microsoft Excel; intermediate level in Microsoft Word and Outlook.

Physical Demands

• Stand: Occasionally
• Walk: Occasionally
• Sit: Constantly
• Handling/Fingering: Constantly
• Reach Outward: Frequently
• Reach Above Shoulder: Occasionally
• Squat or Kneel: Occasionally
• Bend: Occasionally
• Lift/Carry:
  • 10 lbs or less: Frequently
  • 11-20 lbs: Occasionally
  • 21-50 lbs: Occasionally
  • 51-100 lbs: Occasionally
• Push/Pull:
  • 12 lbs or less: Frequently
  • 13-25 lbs: Occasionally
  • 26-40 lbs: Occasionally
  • 41-100 lbs: Occasionally
• Other Physical Requirements:
  • Vision: Near and Far
  • Sense of Sound

Work Environment

Work takes place in an office environment with occasional exposure to a busy resort and gaming environment with multiple distractions. The noise level is usually quiet to moderate. Occasionally, the work environment may include locations exposed to smoke and associated effects.

Conditions of employment include passing a pre-employment drug screen, a background investigation, and completing a 180-day introductory period.