San Jose, California
1577 Part Time/ Bookkeeper/ Accountant Job Opening in San Jose, California - Please note that this is a 6 month+ contract position.
Position Description:
Provide accurate financial information to management and other stakeholders in addition to planning, forecasting and analyzing reports and information impacting parish operations.
Key Qualifications
Proficiency in Excel and QuickBooks
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Experience performing budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis
Previous P&L and Balance Sheet ownership
Proven business partnership experience
SMART ? Tuition Tacking Program
Description
This position involves correctly recording parish financial activity according to US GAAP in compliance with client policy and guidelines. It includes maintaining financial security by upholding internal controls and implementing review recommendations. This position requires summarizing current financial status by collecting information, preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statements and other reports, reconciling financial discrepancies, answering accounting questions, complying with federal, state, and local financial legal requirements.
This position also maintains customer confidence and protects operations by keeping financial information confidential and contributes to team effort by accomplishing related duties as needed including: oversight of parish collections, parish donor database, ADA and other projects as determined by management.
This position reports risk management incidents and facilities issues as directed in guidelines.
This job involves working with many business partners throughout the parish and : pastor, finance council, Office of Financial Services including Parish Financial Services, Risk Management, Facilities, Payroll, IT and HR.
The candidate must demonstrate the ability and willingness to: * Understand the operations * Employ strong analytical and problem solving capabilities * Be results-oriented and deliver value added analyses * Meet deadlines and work well with others * Be organized with a strong attention to detail * Communicate effectively and anticipate management?s questions * Collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams * Strive to improve processes and reporting
Requirements: (ie. education, good communication skills, evening/weekend hours, ability to lift 50 lbs.)
Maintain and Implement General Accounting Function Responsibilities:
Accounts Payable ? Input invoices and weekly check run
Accounts Receivables
Cash Management
Bi-monthly payroll
Monthly Bank reconciliations
Prepare and distribute all financial statements.
Work with Pastor, Administrative Assistant, and Finance Council on preparation of parish annual budget
Work with DSJ to prepare annual DSJ financial report
Monthly end close activities- Prepare month end close reports.
Provide staff with quarterly reports on their budgets and actual
Sales and Use Tax Preparation and filing
Year-end 1099 to vendors
Prepare Audit package and work directly with Armanino McKeena LLP
Maintain and update parish Quick Book system
Calculate and maintain employees sick and vacation accruals
Reconciling all payments
Responsible for processing all credit card transaction payments
Set up, update and maintain accounting procedures and policies
Attend monthly staff meetings and yearly staff retreat
Attend quarterly Finance Council meetings
Parish Collections
Oversee and work with the Administrative Assistant on recording and tracking all parish collections including weekly cash bags & log in sheets according to weekly mass, holidays, or special collections.
Oversee and work with the Administrative Assistant on managing 2 groups of volunteers who count the weekly collections and ensuring all the collections are turned into the parish.
Ensure all deposits are made to bank in a timely schedule.
Distribute collection result to the pastor.
Parish Database ? Parish Soft
Oversee and work with the Administrative Assistant on recording all donations, special pledges, special donations, etc... in Parish Soft.
Oversee for the preparation and distributing the Annual Contribution Statements.
Annual Appeal
Oversee and work with the Administrative Assistant on processing the annual ADA pledges, preparing and distributing weekly report to Pastor and the DSJ
Oversee and work with Administrative Assistant on cooperating with the DSJ requirement on ADA process to ensure ADA package delivery to the ADA office and all new families added to Parish Soft database.
Direct communication with parishioners and ADA office on any issues relating to the pledges.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance preferred. The position generally requires a BS or BA degree, plus 4-6 years of experience in an accounting or finance role.
For consideration, please reference job number 1577.
Job Type: Contract
Required education:
Bachelor's
Required experience:
accounting: 4 years
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