Staff Accountant - Children's Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida

• Applies knowledge of accounting principles on a regular basis
• Owns Accounts Receivable workstream: prepares funder monthly billings including follow-up from invoice to collection
• Maintains billing summary spreadsheet tracker, participates in management discussion to realize 100% of contract awards
• Generates management reports for grant applications and monitors program and grant spending.
• Owns Accounts Payable workstream: processing A/P with attention to allocating all invoices to the appropriate program and payer or grantor.
• Owns Cash Receipts workstream: posting cash receipts to appropriate program and provider, special event, etc.
• Oversees all deposits, maintains cash and check deposit log
• Owns Bank Accounts Reconciliation workstream to ensure zero out-of-balance at month-end
• Maintains General Ledger accounts and corresponding reconciliations to the G/L
• Creates and maintains supporting spreadsheets for Projects such as fundraising events, with the goal to improve information for decision making and planning for the Development Director
• Reviews 401(k) contributions processing and accounts for the Plan year-end close
• Process Employee Expense Reports
• Organizes and maintains file systems; files correspondence and other records, including uploads to the accounting system; makes copies of correspondence or other printed materials as necessary

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting preferred, will consider combination of work experience and degree other than Accounting.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Excel and Word; experience with Financial Edge NXT accounting software is a significant plus.
• Accounting knowledge to determine and make entries into accounting system.
• Understanding of internal controls to help ensure organization-wide compliance.
• Strong analytical skills and creativity for providing timely and useful information to management.
• Attention to detail to process information accurately.

In 1981 the Children’s Advocacy Center of SW Florida, Inc. (formerly the Southwest Florida Children’s Fund) was founded and became a non-profit agency with the goal of providing services to abused and neglected children in Southwest Florida.