Accounting Clerk 2, Part-Time (20 hours a week)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • Salt Lake, UT

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About The Position

Finance employees receive, account for, monitor, and design internal controls to safeguard sacred funds (donated confidentially in obedience to God's commandments) for the Church's religious mission under the direction of senior ecclesiastical leaders. Under moderate supervision, incumbents in this position perform a variety of journey/working level accounting/banking clerical functions including calculating, verifying, posting, and summarizing accounting and/or banking information using a working knowledge of bookkeeping principles and methods. At this level, incumbents may maintain assigned segments of the accounting records such as accounts payable, general ledger bookkeeping, accounts receivable, or specified banking operations. Incumbents are expected to help maintain and ensure accuracy of financial information.

Requirements

• Accounting degree (associate or bachelor’s) or equivalent combination of accounting coursework and experience
• Careful attention to detail
• Solid understanding of debits and credits
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills including writing and debugging Visual Basic macros managing links to external Excel files creating and modifying charts leveraging relative, absolute, and mixed cell references utilizing nested logical functions utilizing data manipulation functions
• Comfort working with numbers for hours at a time
• Ability to maintain information confidentiality
• Ability to track and prioritize numerous simultaneous tasks to meet deadlines
• Ability to produce high work volume in narrow time intervals
• Ability to work a defined schedule that aligns with manager schedule

Responsibilities

• Assist with credit card transaction review procedures
• Create accounting and budget transaction entries
• Reconcile system balances on monthly basis
• Assist in budget preparation and consolidation, including entering summarized data in budget systems, and preparing supplemental reports
• Assist with the creation of a variety of reports, such as devotional schedules, tuition proposals, donated funds usage, and investment results
• Assist with preparation of event speaker requests and notifications
• Assist with meeting scheduling, hosting, and notetaking
• Follow data protection standards and maintain data confidentiality
• Embrace accountability for work results

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree