Outsourced Accounting Specialist
Description
It’s people like you that make us great!
At Yeo & Yeo, we recognize that the champions behind our success are our people. We are a people-first organization fully committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values your contributions, supports your professional growth, and allows you to enjoy life outside the office with flexible remote, hybrid, and in-office work options.
Make an Impact
Yeo & Yeo is a leading Michigan-based accounting and advisory firm offering a full range of business consulting, assurance, tax, technology, and wealth management solutions. We help our clients navigate their challenges, discover new opportunities, and achieve their business and individual goals. Seeing their success – and being a part of it—makes for a great workday.
When it comes to delivering outstanding business solutions, only the best people make that happen. With over 200 professionals across our family of Yeo & Yeo companies, you join a diverse team of passionate, forward-thinking people collectively working together to positively impact our clients and our communities.
Position Summary
Outsourced Accounting Specialists are responsible for learning and applying technical accounting skills and working as part of a team to carry out tasks with coaching and supervision.
Key Objectives
- Understand basic accounting principles
- Use of debits & credits and relationship between accounts
- Apply checks to customer accounts
- Process refunds returned checks and bad debts.
- Must be proficient in processing invoices (incoming & verifying PO's or receiving tickets), posting to vendor accounts and processing cleared checks
- Perform Journal entries and month-end for AP and AR areas
- Reconcile payroll prior to transmission and validate confirmed reports
- Manage workflow to ensure all payroll transactions are processed accurately and timely
- Bring projects to completion on time and within budget
- Synthesize and analyze data to construct concise and clear documentation for reporting
- Growing use and knowledge of applicable firm technology, paperless systems, tools, and processes
- Develop and awareness of the Firm's vision, core values and business strategies
Qualifications
- 1+ years' experience in accounting and bookkeeping in office setting
- Minimum Associates degree in Accounting or other related business curriculum
- Experienced in AP, AR and payroll
- Possess excellent decision-making ability
- Qualified written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organizational and administrative skills
- Ability to deal sensitively with confidential material
- Strong attention to detail
Preferred Abilities
- Communicate effectively in a variety of professional situations
- Participate actively in all on-the-job and formal learning and development opportunities to understand role and responsibilities
- High degree of professionalism
- Ability to accept and adjust to changing priorities and circumstances
Leadership
- Take charge and be action-oriented and persist until the task or job is completed
Technology
- Strong PC skills
- Familiarity with MS Office particularly excel
- Accounting CS and QuickBooks preferred
- Adaptability to a paperless environment
- Understand and stay current on new technology
- Incorporate new techniques and ensure minimal disruptions to productivity