Staff Accountant II

This position supports the day-to-day accounting operations of the bank, including assisting in the production of periodic financial reports, maintaining accounting records through journal entries and reconciliations, ensuring accuracy of financial results, and compliance with generally accepted accounting principles.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-Day Operations
  • Help maintain a documented system of accounting policies and procedures
  • Support the day-to-day operations of the accounting function
  • Support transaction-processing operations
• Transactions
  • Ensure accounts payable are paid in a timely manner
  • Maintain fixed asset records and process depreciation
  • Maintain prepaid expense records and process amortization
  • Complete periodic correspondent bank reconciliations and clear outstanding items
  • Maintain an orderly accounting filing system
  • Maintain a system of controls over accounting transactions
• Reporting
  • Assist in the issuance of timely and complete financial statements
  • Prepare supporting information for regulatory reports to banking regulators
  • Assist in the calculation and issuance of financial and operating metrics
  • Calculate variances from the budget and report significant issues to management
  • Oversee the bank’s vendor management program and reporting
• Compliance
  • Assist in coordinating information for external and internal auditors
  • Assist in coordinating information for regulatory examinations
  • Comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and sales tax filings
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• Three or more years of accounting experience, or equivalent combinations of experience, training, and/or education approved by Human Resources

Preferred Qualifications

• 2–3 years of progressively responsible experience in a community bank

Skills

• Attention to detail
• Accuracy
• Evaluating information to determine compliance with standards
• Deadline-oriented
• Confidentiality
• Organizing, planning, and prioritizing work
• Interacting with computers
• Active listening
• Critical thinking
• Mathematical reasoning
• Oral and written comprehension
• Deductive reasoning
• Processing information
• Researching information

Work Environment

• Professional office environment
• Routine use of standard office equipment (computers, phones, photocopiers, fax machines, email, electronic calendars, scanning devices, calculators, currency and coin machines)

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to talk or hear
• Frequently required to stand, walk, squat, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms
• Frequently lift at least 50 pounds

Schedule

• Full-time position
• Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (one-hour lunch break)
• Occasional evening and weekend work as needed

Travel

• Primarily local during the business day
• Some out-of-area and overnight travel may be expected

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance