Staff Accountant

Job Details

Job Location:

Community Bridges Administration – Watsonville, CA 95076

Position Type:
Regular

Salary Range: $33.83 – $35.93 hourly

Job Shift: 37.5 hrs/wk

Community Bridges envisions a thriving community where every person has the opportunity to unleash their full potential. Our family of ten programs delivers essential services, provides equitable access to resources, and advocates for health and dignity across every stage of life.

Under general supervision of the accounting manager, provides varied, responsible, technical fiscal office support in the following areas: payroll, accounts receivable and accounts payable. Performs associated bookkeeping, journal entry, report preparation, and computer processing duties; works independently to reconcile a variety of accounting problems; instructs accounting assistants; performs related work as required.

• Payroll: prepares a bimonthly payroll, verifies information submitted and balances computer‑generated reports and checks; maintains employee payroll records; reconciles balance sheet accounts; prepares required tax, workers’ compensation, and related insurance 401(k) retirement reports and records; ensures that all payroll procedures are consistent with agency personnel policies.
• Accounts Receivable: submits and monitors requests for funds, reports on expenses to funding agencies; receives all program monies, prepares bank deposits, and reconciles bank statements for a variety of accounts; reviews budget detail for accuracy and completeness; administers collection of monies from diverse sources due to agency for services provided; maintains cash flow; reconciles all balance sheet accounts; develops and maintains necessary accounting records for printing and similar ancillary agency services.
• Accounts Payable: verifies signatures, account and budget numbers for each invoice, reconciles incoming bills with approved purchase orders or contracts; prepares vouchers or checks for payment; obtains authorized signatures and distributes payments to vendors and contractors; verifies that all journal entries are current prior to generating monthly budget reports; maintains complete vendor, voucher, and other files as required; reconciles balance sheet accounts;
  
  prepares special vendor history reports, and 1099 forms.
• Prepares journal entries for all functions; reconciles such entries as required.
• Inputs data to and retrieves data from a PC‑based accounting system and the Excel spreadsheet program; utilizes the computer, following established procedures, to create and maintain files and prepare periodic and special reports.
• Maintains manual and computerized bookkeeping systems, records, logs, and files; prepares reports and performs a variety of office support and general clerical duties as required.
• Uses standard office equipment such as a calculator and copy reproduction equipment.

• Confers with accounting manager and other staff to offer criticisms and suggestions regarding existing and proposed computer software, record‑keeping systems, and procedures relating to the assigned function(s).
• Prepares and maintains written internal procedures related to the assigned functions, ensuring that such procedures are consistent with other agency functions.
• Instructs and provides hands‑on training to accounting assistants; provides task oversight of accounting assistants.

• Provides special reports as requested.
• As directed by the accounting manager, reconciles errors and questionable records.
• May assist to monitor and analyze budgets on an ongoing basis to assure that available funds are properly expended and budgetary limits are observed.
• Assists with the preparation and maintenance of internal financial reports.

• Develops and maintains effective working relationships with other agency staff members.
• Communicates effectively and respectfully with people from different racial, ethnic and cultural groups and from different backgrounds and lifestyles; demonstrates a knowledge of and sensitivity to their needs.

Job descriptions are intended to be illustrative only; they are not…