Employment Opportunity: Assistant Bookkeeper

Purpose: This individual works under the direction of the Bookkeeper to perform Full Charge Bookkeeping and serves as front line contact for company on personnel benefits and payroll.

Job Responsibilities

• Enter accurate financial data in support of Full Charge Bookkeeping for company.
• Execute procedures for Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable to produce accurate and timely results for department.
• May perform all banking duties including deposits, withdrawals, transfers and reconciles banking statements.
• Serves as frontline contact for all employee benefit issues.
• May process, track and manage payroll.
• Create and distribute routine and custom reports to Top Management.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive filing system and processes to allow other designated employees to locate and use vendor, employee and job information.

Principal Problems/Challenges

• Collect accurate and complete documentation.
• Perform functions in a bilingual environment.
• Demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills.
• Many layers of communication are frequently required to obtain desired results.

Freedom to Act

• Work under the direction of the Bookkeeper.
• May operate independently in process, procedures and schedule of day-to-day work.

Scope

• May be involved with every project, vendor, employee benefit, and expense.
• Individual must possess company-wide influence.

Work Environment

• Work is primarily at the company headquarters. Use personal vehicle for trips to bank and client sites when necessary.
• Hours are Monday through Friday, 8AM - 5PM, but can be flexible.
• Overtime is generally not necessary.

Contacts

• Company-wide, vendors, peers at client firms, maintenance AR, banking, healthcare & benefits personnel, and owners.
• May work with clients to resolve billing issues and establish payment schedule.

Qualifications for the Position

• Degree in accounting or equivalent experience.
• 2 years successful bookkeeping experience.
• Significant experience with computerized accounting applications, experience with Intuit's Master Builder is a plus.
• Strict confidentiality and impeccable ethical integrity.
• Valid Colorado driver's license and social security card.