Staff Accountant

ORION FIRST FINANCIAL - SERVING THOSE WHO FUND SMALL BUSINESS

As an industry leader in the small business commercial finance marketplace, Orion First is both reputable and trusted. Our business is built around full service commercial loan, lease and contract management. Additionally, we provide scoring and decisioning products, commercial collection services and strategic advisory to the industry. At our core, we are a manager of risk, focused specifically on small business lending. www.orionfirst.com

Growing Financial Company in Gig Harbor seeking new talent within our accounting department. Our culture is built around a core of empowerment-providing individuals who are driven, motivated and talented an opportunity to achieve their career goals. We are always seeking to connect with individuals of this caliber, because we know our growth and success is the result of talented, focused and persistent hard work. The specific position is for an Accounting Clerk with high level duties and responsibilities as listed below.

General Duties & Responsibilities

• Reports to the CFO
• Works closely with and takes direction from the Controller
• Supports company’s team and clients as necessary

Accounting/Bookkeeping Duties

• Daily banking and transaction duties
  • Create and upload ACH files
  • Process and post payments from lockbox
  • Process and post payments received in house
  • Process and post outbound checks and electronic transactions
• Perform and clear various daily/weekly/monthly reconciliations

Systems and Process Duties

• Work with accounting and IT team members to analyze and improve systems and process
• Importing/Exporting and updating QuickBooks
• Work with various online banking systems

Skills & Requirements

• Expert knowledge of MS Excel
• Proficiency in QuickBooks
• Must be able to work late from time to time to assure any daily processes are complete
• Must be able to work late on last business day of each month until all daily/monthly process are complete
• Ability to quickly problem solve and find potential solutions to issues
• Ability to collaborate and work on long term projects
• Project management experience or exposure desired

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.