Posted over 2 years ago

Cheryl Jefferson & Associates is currently seeking a seasoned Accountant with extensive experience addressing the accounting challenges of small businesses, on a full-time or part-time basis.  

Are you a reconciliation guru, QuickBooks expert, and competent project/task manager? Our highly collaborative team environment is fast pace, detailed oriented, and proactive in order to provide high quality service to our clients.

We perform bookkeeping, compilations, reviews, and tax services for nonpublic companies up to $25 million in a variety of engineering and technology industries.  You will be responsible for performing these types of engagements start-to-finish, preparing traceable workpapers, account reconciliations, troubleshooting and researching problems.  You will be expected to develop an understanding and knowledge of the firm's client service approach, professional requirements and standard operating procedures.  Most importantly, you are expected to work without assistance and consistently meet production deadlines.

Compensation: salary for full-time or hourly for part-time employees based on the value you bring

About CJA

www.cjeffersoncpa.com

We are a small, 100% virtual CPA firm with small business clients and professional staff across the US. 

We pride ourselves in being as tech savvy as CPA firms go.  We make use of the latest technology to advise and train clients, monitor projects, and keep the entire team involved in on-time delivery of results. 

We are results-driven, with the majority of our projects structured as fixed price.

We also believe in a work-life balance to ensure our team is always excited and engaged in the next big client crisis. Paid holidays, PTO, and insurance coverage are a few of the benefits we offer.

Why do our clients love us?  Because we understand their unique businesses, are proactive problem solvers, and overcome challenges to deliver on time.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• reconciliations of all bank, credit cards, and lines of credit
• preparation of loan amortization schedules and reconciliations
• preparation of prepaid schedules and reconciliations
• adjusting the trial balance in accordance with GAAP
• complex reconciliations, such as hanging payroll liabilities, retirement accounts, etc.
• reconciliations of the payroll expense to the payroll tax returns
• cleaning up hanging AR and AP items on the QB aging reports
• reconciliation of hours paid to timesheet history
• reconciliation of the profit & loss by job to the trial balance
• reviewing the general ledger for reasonableness and proper classification
• preparing financial statements and possibly footnote disclosures

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum 2 year experience using QuickBooks desktop (critical)
• Experienced in preparing financial statements
• Experienced in resolving COMPLEX bookkeeping problems with QuickBooks desktop
• Strong technology skills using Microsoft Office 2013 or later (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook at a minimum, more applications preferred)
• Great communicator and team collaborator
• Private home office environment, including separate and private work area, PC (minimum system requirements must be met) with Windows 10. Additional technology requirements will be communicated to candidates selected for this position and must be met on an ongoing basis.
• Experience with digital collaboration tools such as Asana, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Teams
• Experience working with government contractors is a plus

This is a remote position

• Work may only be done from a dedicated home office or a virtual office location with reliable internet, physically within the continental US (work may NOT be performed in a public space or outside of the US).
• Our work hours are 8AM - 5PM EST, Monday through Friday.
• You must be available for phone calls, instant messaging and video conferencing during our work hours, as scheduled.
• Required technology includes (1) minimum 15-inch screen laptop or PC with windows 10, (2) 2nd 20-inch monitor or larger, (3) minimum internet speed of 25Mbps, and (4) a smartphone.
• You are expected to be tech-savvy, have the ability to figure out most apps, can follow "Help" and be willing to Google or YouTube anything else.

APPLY DIRECTLY at HERE!

- Make sure you have an actual properly formatted resume (DOCX or PDF) uploaded to our site.
- Applications sent via job board resumes will not be considered because information does not come through properly formatted.
- Be prepared to respond to video pre-screen questions and a skills assessment later, for further consideration for this position.