Accounting Assistant

Stanbridge University is seeking a dynamic candidate with excellent Excel and organizational skills to join our Accounting Department as an Accounting Assistant. The right candidate must be a highly motivated and organized individual, who can handle a variety of sensitive matters in a professional, mature, and discrete manner. This position offers an excellent opportunity to join a well-established and growing university.

• Maintain Purchase Order processing system.
• Ensure proper recording of new purchases and disposals.
• Manage employee credit card charges.
• Process Accounts Payable.
• Enter A/R Items.
• Assist with payroll system and payroll related items.
• Assist with 401(k) system management.
• Perform clerical duties such as mailings and filing.
• Perform such other accounting, financial, or administrative tasks as may be required

• A bachelor's degree in accounting.
• Must be highly skilled in dealing with financial and numeric data.
• Must be highly skilled in use of Quick Books, MS Excel and MS Word.
• Must have very good verbal and written skills.
• Must have excellent work habits especially when important deadlines cause greater than normal departmental pressures.

• The work environment and physical demands described here are representative of those required of an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily and be physically present in the office.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function.

• Standard office setting.
• Typically, duties are performed in an office environment while sitting at a desk or computer workstation.
• An incumbent is subject to contact with others, frequent interruptions, noise from talking or office equipment and demanding timelines.

• The incumbent regularly sits for long periods, walks short distances on a regular basis.
• Uses hands and fingers to operate an electronic keyboard or other office machines; reaches with hands and arms; speaks clearly and distinctly to answer telephones and to provide information; sees to read fine print and operate computer; hears and understands voices over telephone and in person; and lifts, carries, and/or moves objects weighing up to 10 pounds.

• Professional opportunities in a growing organization.
• An organization that values and appreciates its employees.
• A highly competitive pay and benefits package.
• A strong community service culture.

Stanbridge University is an equal opportunity employer with values and appreciation for its employees.