Staff Accountant- Houston

OVERVIEW: The Staff Accountant is a full-time position responsible for maintaining financial records and ensuring that financial transactions are accurately recorded. This role supports the accounting team in preparing balance sheet reconciliations, recording journal entries, and preparing financial reports. The Staff Accountant will also handle various accounting tasks and special projects as assigned.

What's In It For Me?

• Market Value Compensation 
• Robust PTO Plan
• Health, Vision and Dental plans for you and your family to choose from
• 401K Retirement Plan with company match up to 30%
• Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Special Program Options: FSA, EPA, Legal Services and Identity Theft
• Continuous Training for your Professional Development
• Working in a dynamic, collaborative, and fun environment
• Coached and supported career growth

What Will I Do?

• Prepare and reconcile invoices and sales transactions.
• Record journal entries and complete bank reconciliations.
• Assist in the month-end and year-end close process and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Organize and file credit card statements and backup information.
• Enter deposits, including financing deposits.
• Prepare cash forecasts and manage collections on past due and current accounts.
• Process new vendor applications and enter sales data into various spreadsheets.
• Enter vendor invoices and balance vendor statements.
• Maintain general ledger and ensure electronic recordkeeping is up to date.
• Monitor open accounts receivable.
• Handle accounting errands, including trips to the bank and post office.
• Assist with special projects as assigned, including preparing and assisting with external audit schedules.

Do I Have What It Takes?

COMPETENCIES - To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required.

• Intellectual: Demonstrates attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and the ability to gather and analyze information.
• Interpersonal: Maintains confidentiality, listens actively, and responds to requests for service and assistance.
• Organization: Understands business implications of decisions, works within approved budgets, and upholds organizational values.
• Self-Management: Adapts to changes, meets challenges with resourcefulness, and completes tasks on time.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Language, Math and Reasoning  

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence.  Ability to effectively present information in on and one and small group situations to customers, clients and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. The ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, and TRAINING:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of accounting experience.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

• CPA or working towards CPA certification is preferred but not required.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

• Basic to intermediate skills in Microsoft Windows, including Word and Excel.
• 10-Key by touch
• Ability to type 60-65 wpm
• Intacct

PHYSICAL DEMANDS - The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Regularly required to sit, use hands to handle or feel, talk, and hear.
• Frequently required to stand, reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally required to walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

VISION REQUIREMENTS

• There are no special vision requirements.

WORK ENVIRONMENT - The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• This position is in an office environment with low to moderate noise levels. (Examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic.)

Wrench Group and its affiliates are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. The company encourages all qualified candidates who are eligible to work in the United States to apply, but it does not sponsor applicants or employees who require a visa to work legally.