Staff Accountant
About the job
Staff Accountant
Job Summary: Pembroke Hill School is looking for a detail-oriented and motivated Staff Accountant to join their Business Office team. This role supports the day-to-day accounting operations of the business office, ensuring accuracy and integrity of the accounting and reporting systems while providing excellent customer service to all constituencies.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the end-to-end accounts receivable process, including invoicing, collections, and account reconciliations.
- Collaborate with internal teams to resolve billing disputes and maintain positive client relationships.
- Prepare and post journal entries for month-end close activities.
- Perform reconciliations of balance sheet accounts.
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
Schedule : This is a year round position paid time off in accordance with employee benefit plans.
Compensation : Compensation will be based on related experience and education and a competitive norm influenced by local relevant professional salary data. Transcripts and verification of employment will be required. Benefits include health, dental, retirement match (up to 8%), professional development opportunities, PHS tuition remission, paid time off (sick, PTO and office closed days).
About Pembroke Hill School:
Pembroke Hill School is an independent school in Kansas City, Missouri. Pembroke Hill seeks to fulfill our mission by recognizing that diversity, belonging, equity, and inclusion are integral elements of school and community life. Our mission-inspired goal is together, cultivating the best in each, for the benefit of all. Cultivating each to be a global thinker and valuable member of the PHS community poised to acquire the academic and life skills that make a significant difference for all.
Physical Demands for Staff positions:
The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Ability to sit for extended periods.
- Ability to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids
- Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone
- Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone
- Physical ability to lift, carry and/or hold up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height
- Ability to occasionally balance, reach, bend, squat, stoop, or kneel
- Ability to climb stairs, walk, and occasionally run, if required
Qualifications and Requirements:
- A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
- 1 – 3 years of accounting experience preferred with a strong understanding of GAAP.
- Administrative, organizational, and interpersonal skills with the ability to tactfully support school policies.
- Proficiency in Excel and other accounting systems.
- Excellent attention to detail; strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Highest regard for confidentiality, exemplary ethical standards, integrity, and respect for others.
- As part of the pre-employment screening process, a credit report will be included in the background check due to handling money and access to bank accounts.
