Accounting Clerk

Full-time

Description

Our fiscal team is seeking a full-time Accounting Clerk at our corporate office in Latrobe. As Accounting Clerk, you will be responsible for the accounts payable system. Using your familiarity with accounts payable procedures and knowledge of QuickBooks, you will:

• Process invoices received from vendors after appropriate approvals are obtained,
• Prepare and process all related documents associated with purchasing,
• Distribute payments,
• Maintain check registers and payables registers,
• Oversee blank checks, maintain cash receipts, and prepare bank deposits,
• Maintain vendor contract file in relation to accounts payable, and
• Process other administrative functions such as vehicle registry, ordering office supplies, and recording inventory.

Westmoreland Community Action is a non-profit organization that works to connect individuals and families to opportunities and resources throughout the community to improve their quality of life and help to reduce poverty in the community. This is accomplished through housing, counseling, support, education, intervention, collaborations, partnerships, information, referrals, and networking.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalency.
• Supplementary courses in bookkeeping, accounting, typing preferred.
• Proficiency using Microsoft suite - especially Excel - and QuickBooks.
• Must be able to obtain child abuse, state police, fingerprint-based criminal background check, and sex offender registry clearances.
• Valid driver's license required and must carry $15,000/$30,000 bodily liability car insurance.

Benefits:

• Dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability polices,
• ICHRA health plans – Using an allowance, choose the best plan for you,
• 14 paid holidays and paid winter break,
• 10 days of vacation in first year of employment,
• Sick time,
• 8% retirement match after 1 year and 1000 hours of service,
• Mileage reimbursement.

Westmoreland Community Action (WCA) is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects our community and those that we seek to serve. If you, in good faith, believe that you are qualified to succeed in this position, we encourage you to apply. Please include a cover letter to tell us about your unique qualifications for the position. Our hiring manager will review your application and, if interested, will contact you regarding next steps.

REQUIREMENTS NECESSARY TO SAFELY PERFORM THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION OF ACCOUNTING CLERK:

Physical requirements - Push/pull, lift/move up to 10 pounds.

Manual dexterity - Perform moderately difficult manipulation - typing, filing, and writing.

Coordination - Perform tasks which require foot and/or hand/eye coordination - driving a car, typing data entry.

Mobility - Walk, stand, and sit for prolonged periods of time, drive.

Speech - Articulate with extreme accuracy - employee relations, phone contact.

Vision - Read small print, drive a car.

Hearing - Receive verbal instructions, answer phones, intercom, communicate with employees.

Concentration - Able to concentrate on fine detail with some interruption.

Attention span - Able to attend to task function for more than 60 minutes.

Conceptualization - Able to understand and relate to theories behind several related concepts.

Memory - Able to remember multiple verbal and written task-assignments given at beginning of period extending over long period of time.

Environment Conditions - Indoor work.

Salary Description

$18.51 - $20.72 per hour