Accounting Assistant / Canton, MS

Responsibilities

• Prepare reports required by law
• Assist in maintaining fixed assets and work orders
• Ensure compliance with GAAP and applicable federal, state, and local regulatory laws and rules for financial reporting
• Assist in production of all monthly, quarterly, and fiscal reporting activities for the organization including: revenue/expense reports, balance sheets, and financial statements
• Maintain monthly statistical reports
• Prepare and post month-end closing entries
• Assist in preparing reports for Management
• Assemble sales tax information and remit payment
• Assist with year-end audits
• Prepare sundry billing
• Produce routine financial reports using established formats and precedents
• Maintain specialized accounting record systems, including resolving errors, balancing accounts and records
• Monitor and provide information about a variety of fiscal areas; analyze transactions to determine if complex accounting entries are accurate
• Review and process complicated or contested transactions (e.g., accounts receivable/payable, travel expenses, etc.)
• Assist Accounts Payable in the production of the board docket
• Provide clerical and administrative support
• Maintain confidentiality
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Finance Manager and General Manager

This position reports directly to the Finance Manager.