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Mission

We collaborate with leaders to empower insightful financial decisions and creative problem solving.

Vision

To meet leaders where they are to solve financial pain points in a manner that is thoughtful and timely.

Core Values

• Be Supportive
• Be Curious
• Be Responsive

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Accountant

Full-time and Part-time

Job Purpose

The Account is a key advisor for Gemsbok’s clients and is responsible for client success and satisfaction.  Client success includes listening and supporting clients with their questions and obstacles and providing accurate financial statements and processing payroll, paying bills and taxes on time and accurately.  All staff are expected to follow up on outstanding client requests and to keep the client informed of progress, obstacles, and other outstanding deliverables. 

This role works directly with CEOs and other leadership to support them with key business information.  Recurring work will include tasks such as reconciling monthly activity, populating, and reviewing monthly reporting for key business trends, concerns, and successes.   The staff member will be expected to answer questions about financial statements, benefits, payroll, and accounting.  They are the first point of contact for clients and are responsible for building trust with their clients.  In addition, this role will be involved with preparing financials for year-end audits or tax returns for several clients.   

Questions and updates are received almost daily from some clients.  The role is fast paced and requires thoroughness coupled with timeliness.

Key Attributes

• Extensive payroll knowledge
• Extensive accounting knowledge
• General knowledge HR practices and laws
• Detailed oriented
• Comfortable with technology
• Excellent Communicator in all forms
• Curious about how businesses work
• Willing to look at problems from all sides
• Likes training others on accounting and bookkeeping

Technology Skills

• Excel
• QuickBooks knowledge
• Google Suite
• Microsoft Office Suite
• DropBox
• Slack
• Teams
• Trello

The position requires ownership of the following:

• Entering bookkeeping transactions into QuickBooks Desktop and/or QuickBooks Online
• Creating invoices and managing A/R
• Paying bills and managing A/P
• On-boarding new hires and setting up payroll
• Making tax liability payments through online government portals
• Processing payroll through QuickBooks and other platforms and files all corresponding tax returns
• Running weekly reports through QuickBooks for client leadership
• Replying to client emails and requests for support
• Managing the client’s email account
• Reviews each assigned client’s Balance Sheet and Income Statement each month for accuracy
• Communicating with the team to better serve the client’s needs
• Collaborating with the Gemsbok team to solve various client obstacles
• Keeping internal project management systems updated
• Identifying improvement opportunities for client work flows

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