Finance and Accounting Clerk
Do you enjoy working with numbers, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring accurate financial transactions? Do you want to support accounting operations that keep an organization running smoothly? If so, please read on as this may be just the job for you.
Who is Colorado Gives Foundation?
Colorado Gives Foundation connects people, ideas and Colorado nonprofits to make good happen. We are a Jefferson County grantmaker and statewide, we invest to build the capacity of nonprofits and donors through ColoradoGives.org, nonprofit endowments and donor services. We make it easy for people to donate to the causes they care about, enabling meaningful change to help our neighbors thrive. Colorado Gives Foundation is where donors find and discover the community impact that matters most to them, which is good for everyone.
What is the Job?
The Finance and Accounting Clerk is responsible for accurately maintaining and evaluating invoices ensuring timely payment, tracking organizational transactions, depositing cash receipts, managing vendor records, and supporting a variety of accounting projects and processes with efficiency and attention to detail.
To succeed, you should have:
- High school diploma or equivalent (GED)
- Minimum of 2 years of relevant accounting or bookkeeping experience
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, accurate and timely
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work well with colleagues, vendors and external partners
- Proficiency with accounting software and general computer applications
Your essential duties and responsibilities as the Finance and Accounting Clerk will include:
Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable + Cash Receipts
- Ensure accurate, timely, and efficient AP/AR and cash-receipt processes.
- Monitor workflows and recommend process improvements as needed.
- Code, file, and enter invoices, ensuring they are paid on time.
- Proactively prepare and issue AR invoices and manage payments.
- Deposit cash receipts.
Expense Reports + Invoicing
- Review employee expense reports, corporate credit card statements, and invoices with accuracy and efficiency.
- Ensure all submissions are processed promptly and in accordance with policy.
Vendor Management
- Proactively review, update, and maintain complete and accurate vendor records.
- Manage required documentation, including banking details and W-9 forms.
General Accounting Support
- Assist the accounting team to ensure timely and accurate financial statements for the foundation and its fund holders.
- Monitor cash balances and update cash schedules.
- Upload cleared checks from the bank into the finance database.
- Prepare, enter, and file select monthly journal entries.
- Assist with preparation for the annual audit
- Maintain document-retention processes for the accounting department and coordinate the annual transfer to offsite storage.
- Maintain certificates of insurance.
Customer Service
- Provide exceptional service to employees, vendors, donors, and nonprofit partners.
- Deliver timely and accurate information to internal and external stakeholders, including audit confirmation requests and vendor onboarding/offboarding support.
- Model organizational values and contribute positively to workplace culture.
- Maintain Asana shared tasks in collaboration with other departments.
Benefits and Perks
We value our employees’ time and efforts. Our commitment to your success is enhanced by a competitive compensation of $54,000 – $59,000 annually, depending on experience, and an extensive benefits package including:
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) / retirement plan
- 401(k) employer matching
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health savings account
- Paid time off
- Employee assistance program
- Paid family leave
- Professional development assistance
- Paid holidays
- Workplace perks
We are also conveniently located on the G-line in Old Town Arvada. Oh, and we’re pretty fun, so we think you’ll like working with us.
Workplace Culture
You are valued and you belong. We are committed to maintaining the best environment for our employees where people can show up as their authentic selves and grow with the Foundation.
In that spirit, we provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, genetics, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age or any other characteristic protected by law.
