Accountant

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Accountant

Making Dallas a No-Kill city is a big job and as a volunteer-based organization, we need a lot of great volunteers to do it. As an Accountant you provide the organization with a dedicated representative to work hand in hand with the administration side of a continued positive partnership of Dallas Pets Alive! and our shelter partners.

To be considered, please be sure to also complete our volunteer application at https://dallaspetsalive.org/volunteer/volunteer-application/

Title: Accountant

Department and/or Team: Administration

Reports to: Executive Director

Compensation: This role is a one-year contract position with a monthly stipend of $350 ($23.00 an hour) a month

Works with: Leadership team including VP of Animal Operations and VP of Administration

Description of Role: The Accountant has primary responsibility for accurate recording of financial transactions in the Dallas Pets Alive books and records, as well as providing financial reports to executive leadership on a monthly basis and as needed.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Reconcile bank statements for each account monthly. Identify and correct discrepancies. Substantiates financial transactions by auditing documents.
• Consult with leadership team members as needed to ensure accurate categorization of income and expenses.
• Reconcile bank statements for each account monthly.
• Reconcile annual sales tax payment
• Record noncash transactions such as in-kind donations in the accounting software on an as-needed basis.
• Provide monthly summary income statements, balance sheets, and budget to actual reports to the Executive Director.
• Provide summaries of income and/or expenses for purposes of grants and other external needs, upon request of the Executive Director.
• Oversee the annual budget process
• Monthly entries into Quickbooks from bank statements and paypal statements.
• Provide monthly summary income statements, balance sheet, and budget to actual reports to the Executive Director.
• Provide other ad hoc requests as received within 24 hours of request.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Provide details or explanation of transactions upon request from board of directors.
• Provide summaries of income and/or expenses for purposes of grants, taxes and other external needs upon request of the Executive Director.

Skills/Qualifications Needed:

• Degree in Accounting (Bachelor’s preferred) and/or 2+ years of experience in an accounting or bookkeeping role.
• Knowledge of Quickbooks is preferred.
• Non-profit bookkeeping experience is preferred.
• Access to computer, internet access, familiar with Excel, quickbooks and sales tax filings.
• Strong work ethic in timeliness of assignments, accuracy, and identification of accounting discrepancies.
• Strong communication, computer skills, deadline-oriented, attention to detail, and verification skills.

Desired Experience: See above.