Bookkeeper

The Salvation Army USA Central Territory•Rockford, IL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Bookkeeper will perform full charge bookkeeping duties, ensuring compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and Salvation Army Accounting processes. This role involves posting journal entries, analyzing financial information, preparing financial reports, and managing accounts payable and payroll journals. The position also includes preparing monthly reconciliations, filing financial documents, preparing sales tax returns, assisting with budget preparations, processing billing for internal and external vouchers, and preparing invoices. The Bookkeeper will collaborate with the ARC Command Center Accountant for month-end and year-end closing, match store deposits, process daily reconciliations, identify and post wire transfers, and maintain files on open accounts receivable.

Requirements

Minimum requirement is a 2-year (A.S.) accounting degree plus accounting work experience.
The ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.
Superior written and oral communications skills.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret data.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to mathematical and accounting operations to daily tasks as required.
Excellent time management, decision making and organizational skills.

Nice To Haves

Applicants with bachelor’s degree plus work experience in accounting are preferred.

Responsibilities

Perform full charge bookkeeping.
Monitor compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and Salvation Army Accounting processes and procedures.
Apply principles of accounting to post journal entries, analyze financial information and prepare financial reports for ARC.
Code, Review and post Accounts Payable invoices.
Review, process and approve vendor Checks before they are released to the vendors.
Review and post bi-weekly payroll journals.
Prepare monthly reconciliations of payroll deductions and exchange accounts.
File check copies and related documents according to established procedures.
Prepare and File sales tax return on a monthly basis.
Assist Administrator with budget preparations as needed and enter budget information in accounting system.
Process billing for Internal (SA Unit) and external Vouchers billing, collection, and reconciliation.
Prepare Invoices thru Shelby AR Module and send to Customers.
Work with ARC Command Center Accountant to ensure timely month end & year end closing, Submit requested info in timely manner.
Match store deposit to Daily Sales and credit card postings & process CP Daily Reconciliations
Identify incoming wire transfers and post in AR regularly.
Maintain files on open AR and communicate with administrator on monthly basis.
All Other Duties as assigned.