Accounting Clerk

Virtual Partner Advantage • Marksville, LA

3d • Remote

About The Position

At Virtual Partner Advantage, we care about experience, but we don't believe a résumé tells us everything we need to know about someone's potential. We hire for aptitude, drive, and fit, not just credentials. This is a hands-on accounting role, and your exact responsibilities may vary based on your experience, strengths, and where you're the best fit on our team. VPA is fully digital. Our clients are located across the country, our work is done electronically, and technology is part of nearly everything we do. You'll work across Microsoft products, accounting platforms, client systems, spreadsheets, digital communication tools, and an evolving set of technology that includes AI. We'll teach you our accounting processes and the systems specific to VPA and our clients. We're looking for someone who already has the digital aptitude to learn them. We take our work seriously, but we also take our people seriously. We believe people do their best work when they're in the right seat, using their strengths and continuing to develop them. You'll have people around you who want you to succeed. You'll be expected to ask questions, learn from feedback, and become more independent as your knowledge grows. As you develop, your role can develop too. That could mean deeper accounting responsibilities, monthly reporting, more client interaction, exposure to different areas of the business, or increasingly complex work as your skills grow. You don't have to know exactly where your career will take you yet. You do need to be excited about building one.

Requirements

• Comfortable with technology
• Analytical
• Detail-oriented
• Quick to learn
• Genuinely curious about how all the pieces of a business work together
• Comfortable working on a computer
• Navigating common digital tools
• Picking up new software
• Moving between systems without getting overwhelmed
• Willing to click around, explore, ask questions, and figure out how something works
• Willing to evolve with technology
• Care about accuracy
• Dependable
• Communicate when you have questions or run into a problem
• Learn from feedback
• Follow through on what you own
• Aptitude, curiosity, and drive to understand how it all works

Nice To Haves

• Already work in accounting
• Handled billing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, purchasing, or bookkeeping
• Finishing school and looking for the right place to start your career
• Know you want to work somewhere connected to technology and business
• Enjoy spreadsheets, numbers, patterns, or problem-solving
• Like understanding how things work behind the scenes
• Curious about how purchasing, vendors, billing, financials, and business operations all connect
• Want to understand the why behind a process
• Notice when something doesn't look right and want to figure out why
• Care about getting the details right
• Can spot a process that could work better and can't help wondering how to improve it
• People can count on you to follow through
• Ask questions when you need help, but you're also willing to try to find the answer
• Looking for somewhere to build a career
• Incredibly consistent
• Naturally look ahead
• Spot problems
• Ask questions
• Find better ways to work
• Always wondering what they can learn or take on next
• Fascinated by how all the pieces fit together
• Capable people who care about their work, take ownership of it, and want to keep developing their strengths

Responsibilities

• Posting bills and recording customer payments
• Entering and reviewing credit card and expense transactions
• Supporting accounts payable and accounts receivable
• Working with purchasing, vendors, and billing information
• Handling prepaids and accruals
• Assisting with collections
• Processing payroll
• Preparing and sending invoices
• Maintaining accurate financial records
• Working across client systems to keep financial information organized and up to date

Benefits

• People around you who want you to succeed
• Expected to ask questions, learn from feedback, and become more independent as your knowledge grows
• Deeper accounting responsibilities
• Monthly reporting
• More client interaction
• Exposure to different areas of the business
• Increasingly complex work as your skills grow

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed