Staff Accountant: Belle Chasse

Luminate; Belle Chasse (LA); Hybrid; USD 57,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Instep CU is seeking a Staff Accountant to support the accounting function and ensure accurate financial reporting. The role reports to the CEO and involves maintaining the general ledger, preparing statements, and ensuring compliance with GAAP.

Key duties include processing journal entries, reconciling accounts, and handling tax payments and vendor invoices. Ideal candidates have 3 years of accounting experience and a Bachelor’s in Accounting (preferred).

Qualifications

• 3 years of accounting experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Review and verify journal entries and accounting classifications.
• Prepare income and balance sheet statements, consolidated statements, and other accounting reports.
• Maintain general ledger reconciliations and assist with month-end processing.
• Balance and reconcile various accounts; collaborate with departments to correct transactions.
• Process tax payments and vendor invoices for payment.
• Monitor and reconcile cash, and support cash-related processes.

Skills

Journal entries

General ledger

Financial reporting

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Job description

Instep CU is hiring Staff Accountant.

Job Description: Staff Accountant Reports to: CEO

Pay rate salary range: $57,000 - $75,000

PRIMARY FUNCTION

Perform office support activities for credit union operations. Deliver extraordinary member service by demonstrating and maintaining exceptional knowledge and expertise of all financial products and services, as well as providing highly effective resolution of member issues.

Maintains the Credit Union’s accounting records and reports, ensuring they are in compliance with generally accepted accounting and financial practices.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Reviews and verifies the accuracy of journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various records.
• Prepares income and balance sheet statements, consolidated statements, and various other accounting statements and reports.
• Completes accounting functions in accordance with established Credit Union policies and procedures.
• Maintains various general ledger account reconciliation, bank reconciliations and regularly contact other departments to obtain information and/or to correct transactions.
• Analyzes, posts, balance, and reconcile financial data, ledgers, and accounts.
• Keeps management informed of area activities and of any significant problems.
• Maintain various month-end processing in a timely manner.
• Understand, interpret, and apply general and specific administrative and departmental policies and procedures as well as applicable federal, state, and local policies, laws, and regulations.
• Plans and organize work to meet changing priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to cross-train and back-up other functions that may include ACH/Wire capabilities.
• Completes all required compliance/continuing education training
• Process all share drafts and ACH exception adjustments and returns daily.
• Process Debit Card exceptions and perform daily balancing.
• Process monthly corporate Visa expense reports.
• Submit and process monthly/quarterly federal/state tax payments.
• Balance and verify daily G/L transactions to catalyst daily activities.
• Balance daily vault and teller cash, process entries for cash orders and shipments.
• Prepare and enter journal entries for all daily activities.
• Process Catalyst incoming returns.
• Balance process RTP (real time payments) with CACU.
• Review, code, and process invoices for payment.
• Process EFT Disputes and Government Reclamations.
• Manage and control all tax levies and garnishments, placing holds on accounts and remitting payments as required.
• Process and monitor ATM and check card disputes within regulation guidelines and balance GL.
• Monitor fraud accounts and submit fraud claims as necessary.
• Prepare monthly operational charge off to be submitted to CEO for BOD approval.

Other Responsibilities

• Provide back up for Visa credit card and debit card operations and disputes as needed.
• Other duties and tasks assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications

• 3 years of accounting experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting (preferred)