Junior Staff Accountant

Hot Springs Village POA is seeking a Junior Staff Accountant to support accurate and timely daily financial transactions. The role focuses on cash receipts, disbursements, general ledger posting, month-end and year-end closing, audit preparation, reconciliations, and routine financial reporting while following internal controls, POA policies, and GAAP principles.

What you'll do:

• Prepare and post daily cash journal entries, including ACH drafts for member assessments, utilities, credit card activity, and other electronic receipts
• Record and apply daily cash receipts accurately and timely to the general ledger
• Process and monitor payments (ACH, checks, and electronic payments) to support the complete, accurate, and timely payment of expenses
• Work in coordination with the Accounts Payable Clerk and any temporary or part-time A/P support by assisting with invoice documentation, approvals, posting, and payment activities
• Maintain and process vendor 1099 information, including reviewing vendor records, tracking reportable payments, and assisting with year-end 1099 reporting and required federal filings
• Monitor the daily cash position and bank balances, communicating observations or concerns to senior accounting staff
• Support bank activity review and reconciliation processes to help maintain accurate cash records
• Assist with maintaining accurate subsidiary ledger activity and support reconciliation to the general ledger
• Assist management and staff, as requested, with accessing and understanding financial reports from multiple reporting systems
• Assist with monthly and annual close processes, including preparation of reconciliations, schedules, and supporting documentation
• Support year-end audit preparation by assembling requested materials and responding to audit requests
• Follow established internal controls, POA policies, and standard operating procedures (SOPs)

What they're looking for:

• A minimum of 1 year's general business, accounting and office experience intermediate MS Word and MS Excel knowledge
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos
• Ability to write simple correspondence
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations
• Ability to identify variances and trends with accounting transactions
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms
• The employee is frequently required to talk or hear
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds