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Accountant

Fahrenheit Advisors is assisting our client, The Longwood University Foundation, in the search for a Staff Accountant. This role is responsible for assisting the Controller with accounting functions and ensuring fiscal responsibility on all levels. This is a unique and rewarding opportunity to work for an organization that changes young people’s lives through scholarship awards.

Responsibilities:

  • Timely delivery of accounting services including preparing month-end journal entries and performing balance sheet and income statement reconciliations
  • Maintain the general ledger, financial reporting, and cash receipts and disbursements
  • Ensure that balance sheet accounts are reconciled in time for month-end close, and cash receipts are coded accurately and processed
  • Assist the Controller with preparation for tax, audit and regulatory reporting
  • Review and post transactions
  • Record gain or loss on stock gifts, cash receipts, mitigation banking sales entries and fixed asset entries
  • Manage scholarship award process and work with university staff and faculty to award scholarships

Requirements:

  • BS in accounting or related business degree
  • 2-5 years’ experience in an accounting role with increasing responsibility
  • Must be a results-oriented professional and have the ability to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness of financial data
  • Self-starter with a strong work ethic
  • Excellent organizational and communication skills
  • Focus on customer service and the ability to work in a team environment with stakeholders across the organization
  • Ability to adapt to rapid change in a positive manner