Accountant

Public Affairs Institute; Logan (UT); On-site; USD 73,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth track

Mentor program

Full benefits

Flexible hours

Job summary

The Public Affairs Institute in Logan, UT is seeking a hands-on Accountant with a strong finance background to own budgets and drive financial discipline. You will mentor junior staff, streamline the chart of accounts, and ensure accuracy across GL and benefits invoices in a fast-growing setting.

Expect a competitive salary ($73,000 - $98,000) with growth opportunities, full benefits, and a track record of delivering detailed financial models and due diligence for strategic initiatives in a

Qualifications

• Experience with modern Excel workflows and tooling.
• Familiarity with ACCA and related tools or frameworks.
• Portfolio or work samples demonstrating finance expertise.
• Ability to learn new finance systems quickly and apply them.
• A viewpoint on Public Affairs Institute's space, sharpened by reading.
• Depth in DCF analysis and curiosity in Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Mentor junior accounting staff and review their work for accuracy.
• Convert a messy chart of accounts into something a newcomer can read.
• Reconcile the remote benefits invoice against enrollment line by line.
• Trace a single transaction end to end when the numbers don’t tie.
• Support due diligence and financial modeling for strategic initiatives.
• Reconcile general ledger accounts and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Implement and document internal controls to safeguard company assets.
• Shepherd the year-end innovative audit from PBC list to signed opinion.

Skills

Excel workflows

Power BI

DCF analysis

Finance knowledge

Tools

ACCA familiarity

Job description

The right Accountant sees a budget not as a cage but as a map, and Public Affairs Institute wants that mind in Logan, UT. The thing worth noting is how much Public Affairs Institute trusts you here — $73,000 - $98,000, finance ownership, and a long runway, all from 5 years in.

Key Responsibilities

• Mentor junior accounting staff and review their work for accuracy
• Convert a messy chart of accounts into something a newcomer can read
• Reconcile the remote benefits invoice against enrollment line by line
• Trace a single transaction end to end when the numbers stop tying
• Support due diligence and financial modeling for strategic initiatives
• Reconcile general ledger accounts and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner
• Implement and document internal controls to safeguard company assets
• Shepherd the year-end innovative audit from PBC list to signed opinion

What You'll Bring

• Hands-on experience with modern Excel workflows and tooling
• Familiarity with ACCA and related tools or frameworks
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your finance expertise
• Ability to learn new finance systems quickly and apply them effectively
• A point of view on Public Affairs Institute's space, sharpened by your own reading
• Equal parts DCF Analysis depth and Power BI curiosity

The autonomy-driven founders of Public Affairs Institute built it in Logan to fix the exact finance problems that drove them crazy elsewhere. Trust is the default setting at Public Affairs Institute; you have to actively spend it to lose it.

Lead with the number, $73,000 - $98,000, then add a growth track, a mentor, full benefits, and hours that bend toward your Logan life.

We re-validated this opening today; Public Affairs Institute is still on the lookout.