Senior Accountant – Shared Services

General Summary

The Senior Accountant – Shared Services will work under the direction of the Controller to provide accounting services to the Diocese of St. Augustine and its related entities and organizations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Supervise Accounting Clerks and/or a Junior Accountant in the execution of their duties.
• Accurate and timely recordkeeping of all daily accounting transactions, including but not limited to cash receipts, accounts receivable, accounts payable and payroll.
• Track weekly packets to verify completion and transmission by the end of the business week following the transactional weeks.
• Track clients’ records and documents to verify receipt by Wednesday of each week following the transactional weeks.
• Track client accounts to verify closure by the 20th of each month following transactional months.
• Update and maintain accounting journals, ledgers and other records detailing financial business transactions in an accurate, organized manner within prescribed time frames.
• Prepare monthly financial statements and supporting reports comparing to budget and prior year in a timely and accurate manner.
• Responsible for accurate and timely preparation of cash position report.
• Responsible for reconciliation of point-of-sale transactions.
• Responsible for reconciling balance sheet accounts.
• Track audit inventory cost calculations and inventory count completions.
• Responsible for confirmation of the cost of sales.
• Responsible for preparing monthly and quarterly tax reports accurately and within prescribed time frames.
• Maintain internal controls for cash, checking accounts, vendor charge accounts, invoices, and purchase orders.
• Development of forecasts and variance reports, as necessary.
• Participate in finance council meetings and inform on financial trends and the achievement of budgets.
• Develop and present ongoing training for Diocesan bookkeepers.
• Respond to inquiries from parishes and schools not participating in the Shared Services program.
• Maintain confidentiality.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from an accredited university is required.
• Minimum three to five years’ experience working with financial statements.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel Skills.
• Knowledge of Point of Sale programs.
• Knowledge of Accounting programs.
• Familiarity with accounting practices for non-profits.
• Proficient with ParishSoft accounting software helpful.
• Proficient with 10-key adding – by touch.
• Planning and Organization skills are required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Initiative.
• Understanding of the Catholic faith, particularly with regard to fiscal matters, is a plus.
• Possess the ability to effectively relate and work with clergy, religious and laity of the Catholic Church.
• The ability to respect, promote, accommodate, and not be in conflict with the mission and teachings of the Catholic Church.

Languages Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, vendors, employees, and the general public.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Abilities

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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