| Location | Portland, OR |
The Senior Accountant position oversees and maintains the general ledger and financial records and statements for management.
This is a supervisory position and is not union-represented.
Essential Duties
Supervise and manage accounts payable, receivable, and accounting staff. Work closely with Payroll administrator. Provide timely feedback to staff and ensure open lines of communication.
Ensure all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems are following appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory requirements.
Maintains and balances service revenue subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, reconciling transactions; resolving discrepancies.
Supports all financial, project/program and funding source accounting; ensure that expenditures are consistently aligned with funding source and program budgets throughout the contract period for government, corporate, and foundation grants.
Conducts monthly and quarterly account reconciliations to ensure accurate reporting and ledger maintenance.
Assists with budget preparation and monitoring, account analyses, internal, and external reports, audits and preparation of state and federal financial filings.
Assists with annual external audit; complete requested materials; and prepare assigned schedules to ensure successful audit results and compliance.
Advises programs in the assignment of accounting codes, credit card transactions, and various other related financial activities.
Documents policies, procedures and workflow for assigned areas of responsibility.
Review and validate semimonthly payroll for approximately 200 employees
Prepares payroll cost allocations per budget and funder requirements.
Review hours worked in the Time & Attendance system and resolve unusual items/exceptions with employees. Follow-up with non-compliant employees and supervisors.
Review payroll reports and validate information including any changes to employee payroll data (new employees, departures, non-standard compensation, changes, etc.).
Review and approve entries prepared by payroll administrator to account for semimonthly payroll.
Contributes to department and organization special projects as assigned.