Staff Accountant

Job description
Description:About Collective Goods

Collective Goods Holdings, Inc. based in Louisville, Colorado is a growing education company that has successfully partnered with K-12 schools for the last three decades. We are driven to improve the learning experience for all children by providing books, funds, and other resources to students, educators, and schools across the United States. Our companies have worked with over 25,000 schools and delivered over three million books to kids.

We operate through the lens of these core values:
• Books are Fun: We approach every school, and every interaction with an unabashed belief that small changes have great impact. We are an unstoppable movement. United by a shared culture and passion, we energize to empower, spreading the fun of books with everything we do. We believe books are a treasure that magically unlock one’s imagination and fullest potential. Getting kids excited about reading drives everything we do! With a joyful, unrelenting energy, we share the fun of books with every child, every school, and every community we can get our hands on!
• Unbounded: If we can dream it, we can make it a reality. Everything is possible! We have a shared belief that it is acceptable to take risks, to express our ideas and concerns, to speak up with questions, and to admit mistakes, regardless of rank or title – all without fear of negative consequences.
• Work the Problem: We have a passion for solving problems. Every problem is a source of inspiration, a chance to unlock an opportunity we had yet to envision. With great creativity and unconventional thinking, we energetically attack each new challenge as an opportunity to discover innovation and improvement. We ideate. We Iterate. We Innovate. We are scientists constantly seeking discovery of great new solutions.
• Be a Pro: We set ambitious standards of accountability. We are reliable, building a foundation of trust that propels us forward. We commit and deliver on time and withing budget. Our curiosity leads us to master our craft through continuous growth and learning. We are disciplined professionals, always up for the task. We are accountable to ourselves, our team, and the families and schools that depend on us. We challenge ourselves and each other to high standards in every transaction. We have the courage to be real with each other and the vulnerability to hear it as constructive insight for improvement.
• Unstoppable: We are unrelenting in our resolve. We persevere in the face of setbacks, challenges, and frustrations. Our passion-driven commitment to our mission fuels our tenacity and resilience to overcome any obstacle, no matter how challenging.
• Defy Expectations: We constantly seek to defy expectations and go the extra mile for each other and our customers. We aim to surprise and delight. We approach every interaction with maximum empathy. We are great listeners of each other and our customers. We live for making someone’s day.

Collective Goods Holdings Inc. offers the following benefits:

- Medical

- Dental

- Vision

- STD/LTD/Life

- Retirement savings plan

- Employee Assistance Plan

- PTO for eligible Full-Time Regular employees

- Twelve (12) paid holidays throughout the year

Equal Opportunity Employer

Collective Goods Holdings, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, ****** orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

About you

The Staff Accountant is responsible primarily for supporting key accounting processes including inventory payables management, and special projects. This role requires effective communication skills, strong attention to detail, passion for developing relationships and partnerships, superior organizational and project management skills, as well as intermediate to advanced Excel skills.

You must be able to move with ease across priorities and deliver to timelines with accuracy and efficiency. As well as run small-scale projects independently.
Requirements:What you’ll do

General responsibilities will include:

- Weekly Offline Billing processing, including follow up collections with schools

- Accounts Payable processing – inventory payables owner

- Inventory accounting processes, reporting, and analysis.

- Weekly report preparation and review.

- Maintain, develop, and foster vendor relationships.

- Assigned balance sheet reconciliations, including bank reconciliations

- Month end processing support, including but not limited to Journal entry preparation and input.

- Budget tracking, general ledger review

- Cash application back up

- Special projects as assigned.

- Maintenance and resolution of sales, use, unemployment, and payroll tax accounts.

- Serve as redundancy to critical processes performed by other team members as assigned.

- Corporate card management – reviewing, coding, posting.

- Weekly payment processing – uploading to bank for processing.

Essential qualifications:

- Minimum 1 year of related work experience.

- Formal accounting education – in progress schooling near graduation, bachelor’s or associate degree

- Prior accounting processing experience

- Curiosity and willingness to dive in and solve problems

- Strong Excel skills

- Excellent communication skills and professional presence

- Passion for accounting, and understanding how accounting supports the business

- Adaptability to change

- Demonstrated organizational skills

Preferred (nice to have) qualifications:

- Netsuite experience

- Month end close processing

Role needs a self-motivated, independent accounting professional that can have a positive impact on creating and defining accounting processes and procedures.

This is a hybrid role, which requires 2-3 days a week in a shared office working environment. Flexibility exists on days and times, but we do value in person training as well as freedom to work from home for more focused workdays.

United States
Colorado
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