Join Our Team as a Staff Accountant at a Passionate Non-Profit Organization!

Are you a dedicated accounting professional with a passion for making a positive impact on the world? Are you looking to use your financial expertise to contribute to a cause that truly matters? If so, we invite you to consider an exciting opportunity to join one of our top, dynamic non-profit clients as a Staff Accountant on a contract basis with the potential for contract to hire.

Title: Staff Accountant
Location: Hybrid - North Bethesda, MD
Hourly Rate: $35.00 - $45.00/hour
Job Type: Contract / Contract to Hire

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain and update accounting records and files
• Analyze budgets and create expense reports
• Examine tax policies and handle tax payments and returns
• Meet with clients to discuss confidential accounting issues
• Post transactions and categorize records in the  general ledger (e.g. by assets, liabilities and expenses)
• Reconcile bank statements
• Analyze transactions with internal and external stakeholders
• Conduct month-end and year-end closures
• Prepare documents for audits
• Advise clients on financial issues via email or phone
• Apply new accounting policies and ensure compliance with rules and regulations
• Report to the Accounting Manager and work to improve financial processes

Requirements

• 0-3 years of accounting experience
• Undergraduate degree in Accounting
• CPA candidate preferred but not required
• Similar experience as a Staff Accountant or relevant role in accounting
• Excellent use of Microsoft Office Word and Excel; very good with spreadsheets
• Knowledge of an accounting information system is a plus
• Attention to detail
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Confidentiality and integrity
• Degree in Accounting; MSc is a plus