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Staff Accountant
Job Description
Our Firm is Growing and We’re Looking for a Staff Accountant
Appletree Business Services is a steadily growing modern accounting firm for small to mid sized businesses. Our clients are landscapers, roofers, web designers, doctors - busy small business owners who we appreciate dearly. Appletree provides a monthly subscription for bookkeeping, business taxes, and personal taxes where we serve clients year round. Appletree is ranked in the top 10% of accounting firms nationwide on Clutch.
We're looking for a great Staff Accountant/Bookkeeper to join our team for 30-40 hours/week.
The Job Is Not...
- Overtime & overworked
- Extreme tax season crunch
- Putting up with jerks or ungrateful clients
- Punching the clock
- Capped hourly pay
- Sink or swim without training
- Working by yourself
- Old school practice with no systems
The Job Is...
- Serving small business clients year round
- Surrounded by great staff accountants and tax managers
- Production incentives to decide how much you want to work and make
- Work life balance
- Career path and ability to move up into other roles
- Proven systems and software
- Collaborative team
- Continuous learning and improvement
- Building client relationships and talking to small business owners
Responsibilities
- Working with more senior staff, you’ll handle much of the day-to-day operations for our clients (transaction entry, invoicing, bill payments, payroll preparation, journal entries, reconciliations, etc.)
- Your daily tasks will be cleanly organized in Canopy, our practice management system, a critical tool that will set you up for success managing work across multiple clients
- While you won’t be responsible for managing client relationships, you’ll interact with clients from time to time, answering specific questions or politely seeking certain information
- As you work, you’ll always stop to ask questions of your team when you aren’t exactly sure what needs to be done - whether inside a client’s books or another client system
- Supporting year end close, entering depreciation schedules, and entering information to help prepare tax returns (you don't need to know tax or do the return)
Qualifications
- +1 year experience in Quickbooks Online
- Tech savvy - able to navigate Zoom, Slack, etc and learn new software quickly
- Ability to manage deadlines across multiple clients with an awareness of what needs to be prioritized
- Exceptional organization skills and attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills with both clients and team members across digital channels and an innate desire to build relationships
- Humility and openness to coaching and critiques; always seeking to improve
- Persistence and an ability to stay on track
- Bookkeeping skills, general knowledge of payroll and accounting principles
Compensation
Starting at $21 per hour during the training period, then as you ramp up you can make $25-40/hour on our production pay model. Excellent career and income opportunities exist for someone who will grow with us. You will also receive a competitive benefits package that includes simple IRA, paid holidays, and a generous flex-time policy. Interview process may include a video interview and a test. We look forward to meeting you. Thanks!
We require a 3 minute video interview submission if you're invited to the next round.
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