Bookkeeper(Accounting Specialist)

**What We Do**:
Kuhn Employment Opportunities is a **non-profit agency** committed to **helping people with disabilities find and retain employment. **We serve people with developmental, intellectual, and psychiatric disabilities in Meriden and the 20 towns surrounding it.

Our mission is to develop quality person-centered services through meaningful employment opportunities that provide people with disabilities, the skills and support necessary to become independent, gain self-esteem and be productive and valued members of the community.
- **Simply stated, we live by the philosophy that all of our participants are V.I.P.s**:_

**V **_**alued by the community**_

**I **_**ndependent by earning a wage**_

**P **_**roud of the work they do**_

**Make a Difference and Join Our Team**

**Comprehensive Benefits**

**TITLE**:Accounting Specialist

**DEPT**:Accounting

**REPORTS TO**:Chief Financial Officer

**STATUS**:Non-Exempt

Responsible for maintaining the systems relative to Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable, ADP Payroll and QuickBooks. Help support our mission to provide quality services to find and retain employment to persons with disabilities. We offer generous benefits and paid time off and we are currently offering a signing incentive.

**Responsibilities include**:
This position requires such typical work operations and responsibilities as, but not limited to:
1. **Responsible for various aspects of Payroll processing, including entering data into ADP, creating and entering Payroll Journal entries.**

2. Prepare all **vendor invoices and other expenses **; post completed items in our Accounting software program.

3. Process Accounts Payable such as ensuring **accuracy of invoices and expenses, investigating errors, etc.**

4. Prepare customer invoices and post to Accounts Receivable.

5. Responsible for **specialized billing procedures** such as state contracts or other comparable entities as needed.

6. Manage all issues relative to billing adjustments and credit collections; ensuring billing accuracy and timely customer receipts.

7. Assist with all aspects of the **Cash Receipts process.**

8. Assist with **month-end accounting functions,** including Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable activity.

9. **Assist the CFO** in the areas of maintaining organized files, Policies and Procedures, and Financial Statement preparatory work.

10. **Assist the CFO** in other essential duties of the department on an as needed basis.

**Qualifications**:

- **Associates degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related field. **_**(required)**_
- **1 years **of experience as an accounting supervisor or manager. (_**Nonprofit experience preferred.)**_
- Technical proficiency in Office Word, Excel and Quickbooks.
- Exceptional **knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting cost control principles and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).**:

- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Advanced knowledge of **bookkeeping and accounting best practices, laws, standards and state regulations.**:

- Pays strict **attention to detail.**:

- Available means of transportation
- Automobile insurance in force per Kuhn’s specifications when using personal vehicle for work related purposes.

**Recent college graduates are welcome to apply**
- **Offers of employment are contingent upon the return of background information that is fully consistent with the strict hiring criteria of Kuhn.**_
- **All Kuhn Employment Opportunity employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.**_

Pay: $43,680.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Paid time off

Experience level:

- 1 year

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Education**:

- Associate (required)

**Experience**:

- QuickBooks: 1 year (preferred)
- Non-profit accounting: 1 year (preferred)
- GAAP: 1 year (preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

- Meriden, CT 06450: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person