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Staff Accountant/CPA

Job Summary:
Candidate must apply principles of accounting to analyze financial information and prepare financial reports by compiling information, preparing profit and loss statements, and utilizing appropriate accounting control procedures.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Prepare profit and loss statements, monthly closing entries and cost accounting reports.
  • Compile and analyze financial information to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, and document business transactions.
  • Establish, maintain, and coordinate the implementation of accounting and accounting control procedures.
  • Analyze and review budgets and expenditures for local, state, federal, and private funding, contracts, and grants.
  • Monitor and review accounting and related system reports for accuracy and completeness.
  • Prepare and review budget, revenue, expense, payroll entries, invoices, and other accounting documents.
  • Analyze revenue and expenditure trends and recommend appropriate budget levels, and ensure expenditure control.
  • Explain billing invoices and accounting policies to staff, vendors and clients.
  • Resolve accounting discrepancies.
  • Recommend, develop and maintain financial data bases, computer software systems and manual filing systems.
  • Supervise the input and handling of financial data and reports for the company's automated financial systems.
  • Interact with internal and external auditors in completing audits.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Additional information:

  • This candidate should possess 3 or more years of related experience.
  • We will not hire anyone who has never prepared an audit, compilation, review or income tax return.

Please send resume by regular mail or by fax to:
Stephen Merritt, CPA, P.C.
233 Business Park Drive
Suite 104
Virginia Beach, VA 23462
Fax: (757) 420-5381

Health/dental benefits available.

Our office is a smoke-free environment

Candidates are preferred to be a Hampton Roads Southside resident as we are a Virginia Beach Office, and punctuality is an expectation.

Only serious inquiries need to send resume.