Staff Accountant

Staff Accountant

Job Description V2025.01

Position Description

We are looking for a detail-oriented Staff Accountant to perform and coordinate accounting duties within our organization. The Staff Accountant's responsibilities include weekly & monthly closing activities to include cost accounting & revenue recognition, performing account reconciliations, maintaining the general ledger, assisting with audit preparations, supporting the creation of quarterly & annual budgets, and performing other accounting duties as assigned. The Staff Accountant will record & post payments received, and make payments for vendor invoices & other debts owned by the company.

To be successful as a Staff Accountant, you should have a solid working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and strong financial analysis skills. An outstanding Staff Accountant should also possess strong Google Workspace skills, previous cost accounting experience, be detail-oriented, highly organized, and able to work independently & collaboratively. The Staff Accountant also provides a high level of customer service to both internal and external customers.

Please note that these responsibilities are divided between two Staff Accountants, with each handling different tasks throughout the year. This approach ensures that both individuals are fully cross-trained and capable of supporting all responsibilities as business needs evolve.

Responsibilities

Accounting

• Cash Flow reporting bi-monthly
• Bank & credit card reconciliations
• General ledger maintenance
  
  • Accruals
  • Prepaid & amortized expenses
  • Depreciation
  • Loan payments & amortization tables
  • Monthly reconciliations
• Revenue
  
  • Properly record all AR & Sales information
  • Generate regular reporting on same
• Fixed Asset Management
• Weekly & Monthly close preparation

Budget

• Budget variance reports & analysis
• Identify & recommend cost cutting improvements
• Update, maintain, and iterate our budgetary Finance Model

Cost Accounting

• Coordinate with production / warehouse staff for regular inventory audits
• Calculate MOH, Direct Materials, and Direct Labor Allocation
• Continually improve system for more accurate & efficient costing data

AR/AP/Purchasing

• Process invoices and reconcile payments
• Complete payments within terms using check-runs, ACH, wires, etc
• Manage expense reporting process, including approvals, reconciliations, documentation, training, etc
• Input, track and retrieve financial data
• Resolve invoice & bill discrepancies
• Prepare weekly receivable deposits
• Document & develop appropriate processes for AR/AP tasks
• Enter Purchase Requisitions & Purchase Orders
• Receive items as needed
• Provide support to other groups as needed
• Develop AR process as we grow the need for additional AR tasks

Other responsibilities

• Maintain files of all legal documents executed in relation to East Fork Pottery & East Fork Industries LLC
• Credit Card administration
• Annual property tax preparation
• Oversee Monthly sales tax preparation through Numeral
• Provide data for annual audit & tax return to outside accountants
• Custom reporting as needed for directors & managers
• Coordinating federal, state, local, and special tax returns
• Performing other accounting duties and supporting other staff as required or assigned

Reports To

Controller

Department & Cost Center

2010 - Finance

Collaborates With

Staff Accountants

Departments Managers & Directors

Direct Reports

N/A

Measured Metrics and Review Schedule

Your first review will be 90 days after your start date, then a six-month check-in and a development review annually in Q1 for the duration of your employment.

• Ownership of at least 2 reconciliations during Month End Close
• Successfully able to provide backfill for AP & Purchasing
• Ownership of Sales Tax relationship with Numeral

Estimated Weekly Hours

40 hours, Monday through Friday during normal business hours

Classification

This position is full time, exempt.

Location

In-person (Asheville) or Hybrid

Pay Rate/Grade

East Fork shall pay you $80,000 annually at Grade 4.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
• 3+ years' experience in accounting/finance
• Experience with cost accounting preferred
• Experience with Quickbooks is helpful
• Working knowledge of GAAP
• Strong financial analysis skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong organizational and stress management skills
• Proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively with different levels of employees

Physical Demands

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines. This position requires a person to have the ability to perform work while stationary for prolonged periods daily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Company Overview

East Fork is located in Asheville, NC and Atlanta, GA, and Brooklyn, NY. At our heart we are makers: we produce every piece of ceramics we sell and source other objects for the home from near and far to offer a meaningful, beautiful, and personal collection of useful objects for the home.

What can we offer

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays
• Sick Leave
• Bereavement Leave
• Paid Medical Leave
• Employee Assistance Network
• Court Activity Leave
• Employee Discount
• Employer funded $10k group life insurance plan
• Employer Subsidized Health Insurance Plans
• Voluntary Vision & Dental Plans
• Employer matched 401(k)

Values at Work

Craft: Craft is not the things we make, it's the way we make them. It's the spirit in which we approach our work, to make it nice, to aspire to mastery, and it demonstrates our care about the person who will use the product of our work and how our work impacts their life.

Generosity: We work towards a model of shared prosperity, setting a bigger, more inclusive, more equitable table for everyone we meet - from our employees to the communities in which we live.

Consideration: We approach each other with focus, clarity, and kindness. We think deeply about the outcome and impacts of our actions, on our organization, the individuals within it, our customers, our environment, and our community.

Curiosity: We stay in our beginner's mind, humble, aware of how much we do not know, striving earnestly and open-heartedly towards our shared success.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

It is important that all prospective job candidates are aware of our company values and of our commitment to building an inclusive company culture. As a white-led organization, we acknowledge that the realities of white supremacy, hetero/cis-normativity, and patriarchy, work in tandem to oppress both people and planet; and that through our own proximity to power, we have benefitted from systemic inequity. We are committed to confronting and rectifying our privilege in service of co-creating an equitable workplace-a space where people can show up authentically in mind, body, and spirit. We honor the collective sum rather than a monolithic experience to reveal a path of excellency, yours and ours. As we continue to build momentum within our anti-racist work we pledge to be intentional in crafting actions that support diversity, equity and inclusion in our framework, and we invite all East Fork teammembers to contribute to this goal.

Levels for Role

Level One

Staff Accountant

PG4

Level two

Sr. Staff Accountant

PG4/$90,000 annually at Grade 4

• 3 years spent in Staff Accountant role or equivalent experience
• Shows proficiency in all Staff Accountant KSAs
• Bachelors in accounting, or finance, or CPA required
• Demonstrates independent critical thinking and decision making