Junior Accountant
About The Position
The Junior Accountant supports full-cycle accounting, cash and treasury operations, and financial reporting across a portfolio of affiliated entities. This role assists with day-to-day bookkeeping and reconciliations, supports month-end closing, helps manage banking and cash movement across numerous entity accounts, and assists with tax and regulatory filings under the guidance of senior finance staff. The role requires strong attention to detail, willingness to learn multiple accounting systems (QuickBooks, Expensify, NetSuite, Bill.com, Yardi), and the diligence to flag issues and missing information proactively across a diverse, multi-entity environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related field
- 0–2 years of relevant accounting experience
- Familiarity with QuickBooks and Expensify, NetSuite, or Bill.com preferred; exposure to Yardi and Expensify a plus
- Solid foundational reconciliation and bookkeeping skills, with the ability to stay organized across multiple entities and deadlines.
- High attention to detail and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving discrepancies
- Good communication skills for coordinating with entity stakeholders, bank relationship managers, and outside tax preparers under senior staff guidance.
- Advanced Excel skills
Nice To Haves
- experience with Smartsheet a plus
Responsibilities
- Support month-end and year-end close across multiple entities, including recording GL activity, verifying accruals, confirming intercompany eliminations tie out, booking amortization and prepaid expense entries, and identifying discrepancies to resolve.
- Assist with tax preparations and state compliance filings, including communication with tax preparer for federal and state annual returns, quarterly and annual state and local tax filings and managing annual state registration and franchise fee filings.
- Provide ad-hoc reports at the request of operations and management.
- Perform key accounts payable actions in Bill.com, including inputting, coding and allocating invoices, onboarding vendors, and assisting with 1099 reporting and filing.
- Review employee corporate credit card and personal expense reimbursements submitted through Expensify, including reviewing that receipts and invoices provided are in line with policy and that credit cards are reconciled on a timely basis.
- Review monthly invoicing procedures, communicating with operations to ensure billing is correct and monitoring that invoices are collected on a timely basis.
- Assist with monitoring daily cash positions; support bi-weekly payroll funding across multiple entities ahead of each pay date; process weekly payment runs, checks, and bill disbursements.
- Support administration of online banking platform access across entity accounts — help set up, modify, and deactivate authorized users under supervision; maintain permission-level documentation in line with internal controls; assist as a point of contact for bank portal access issues.
- Help prepare liquidity reports for management review; retrieve and reconcile monthly bank statements across multiple banking relationships; perform monthly/quarterly bank reconciliations and flag outstanding items to senior staff.
- Assist with opening new bank accounts for new entities or projects, including gathering documentation and supporting KYC requirements
Benefits
- competitive total compensation that is commensurate with experience, location, and other market benchmarks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
