Staff Accountant - 2024-2025 School Year
Imagine 1 week off at Thanksgiving, 2 weeks off for Spring break, 2 weeks at Winter Break plus vacation, sick leave and personal days. The Barstow School also provides best in class 403 (b) employer match, free lunch, tuition discounts and other benefits, plus a competitive salary.
The Staff Accountant’s responsibilities include creating general ledger entries, maintaining financial records and reports, performing account reconciliations, assisting with budget, accounts payable and assist with accounts receivable when needed. This position works closely with the controller.
Essential Job Functions:
- General Ledger
- Prepare monthly journal entries as assigned by the Controller or CFO
- Prepare monthly reconciliation reports, including the bank reconciliations
- Prepare year-end audit reconciliations
- Maintain the general ledger system
- Assist with month end and year end close
- Assist with the budget
- Accounts Payable
- Process all accounts payable not processed through AvidXchange
- Create purchase orders
- Create monthly a list of accounts payable invoices to accrue
- Maintain the prepaid expenses schedule
- Reconcile monthly the Accounts Payable aged with the general ledger
- Additional Duties
- Open the Business Office mail
- Keep record retention files
- Cross train in accounts receivable
- Various duties assigned by Controller or CFO
Minimum Qualifications:
Education:
Bachelor’s degree or 5 years working as a staff accountantExperience and skills:
- Prefer 2-5 years in a nonprofit and educational setting, or relevant experience
- Proficient in use of professional technology applications and resources
- Capacity to work in both groups and independently, while simultaneously managing multiple tasks and deadlines
- Strong knowledge of excel
- Blackbaud and AvidXchange experience is helpful
- Expertise in written and verbal communications
CONTACT
Interested candidates should send a cover letter, resume, and a Barstow Employment Application to Cindy Hamacher, Controller, at cindy.hamacher@barstowschool.org.
ABOUT THE BARSTOW SCHOOL
Located in Kansas City, Missouri and founded in 1884, The Barstow School is a co-educational school where students in preschool through twelfth grade develop in a challenging educational community. As originally stated by Mary Louise Barstow, the objective of the school remains “to promote sound scholarship and to give symmetrical development to mind, body and character.”
The Barstow School admits students of any race, color, national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law in the administration of its educational and admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, or athletic and other school-administered programs.
This policy of nondiscrimination governs the hiring of employees as well and includes the administration of all benefits and policies throughout the term of employment.
ABOUT THE DAN AND CASSIDY TOWRISS IDEA SPACE
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ABOUT BARSTOW GLOBAL ONLINE
Barstow Global Online meets the growing demand for a non-traditional education and adds the proven value of a degree from The Barstow School. BGO is an accredited online school for students in kindergarten through grade 12. For more information contact Barstow Global Online.
