Senior Staff Accountant

VALLEY COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC • Morgantown, WV

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Staff Accountant performs advanced professional accounting work, applying accounting theory and principles to record, classify, examine, and analyze Valley’s financial transactions, including complex program and grant accounting. The role exercises independent judgment and technical expertise, leads parts of the monthly close process, and provides oversight to Staff Accountants and Accounting Assistants.

This position helps allocate personnel and other costs across programs and funding sources, monitor grant budgets, and maintain the integrity of financial data used for funder reporting, audits, and compliance. It also supports the preparation of financial reports, audits, grant billings, and reconciliations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field and at least four years of progressively responsible accounting experience, or a high school diploma or equivalent and seven years of applicable accounting experience.
• Working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and internal controls over financial reporting.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and accounting or ERP software.
• Ability to read, write, understand, and speak English.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing with people across the organization and with state and federal government departments and outside funders.
• Integrity and respect for confidentiality.
• Strong organizational, critical thinking, and analytical skills, including the ability to prioritize and manage multiple concurrent deadlines.
• Ability to work independently with limited direct supervision, exercise sound professional judgment, and guide other accounting staff.
• Current CPR certification or ability to be trained.
• Ability to comply with Client's Rights and Valley's and division or departmental safety procedures.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day oversight of Staff Accountants and Accounting Assistants, including assigning and reviewing work, serving as the first escalation point for accounting and grant compliance questions, and coordinating training and onboarding.
• Lead and review portions of the monthly close, including journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules prepared by other accounting staff.
• Prepare monthly reconciliations of asset and liability accounts, including complex or higher-risk accounts.
• Prepare and obtain approval for monthly general ledger entries, including standard, recurring, and non-standard entries, accruals, adjustments, and closing entries.
• Maintain the fixed asset schedule and prepare entries for property or equipment additions, retirements, transfers, or sales.
• Maintain prepaid expense and amortization schedules, and record adjustments for notes payable and other long-term obligations.
• Review and analyze monthly revenue and expense accounts and prepare necessary allocations, reclassifications, or adjustments.
• Prepare and maintain personnel cost allocation schedules for salaries, wages, and fringe benefits across programs, grants, and funding sources in accordance with the cost allocation plan, approved indirect cost rate, and applicable documentation requirements.
• Prepare monthly and periodic grant reconciliations, compare general ledger revenue and expenditures with award budgets, grant agreements, and reporting requirements, and research and resolve discrepancies.
• Assist with developing, monitoring, and revising grant and program budgets; track spending and communicate variances, projected over- or under-spending, and budget modification needs to the Director of Finance and program leadership.
• Prepare grant billings, drawdowns, and reimbursement requests to federal, state, local, and private funders in accordance with agreement terms and deadlines.
• Assist with annual financial statement audits, single audits under Uniform Guidance, and program-specific or funder-required audits and monitoring reviews, including preparing schedules and responding to inquiries.
• Assist with internal and external financial reports, including funder-required reports, board reports, and program-level financial statements.
• Perform monthly cash application and record daily cash receipts for the bank reconciliation process.
• Prepare and upload check runs to the banking online portal.
• Maintain accounts for clients for whom Valley serves as representative payee.
• Assist with audits and special requests and perform other reconciliations and account analyses as requested.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior