Ascend Accounting Specialist

As an Accounting Specialist, your primary mission is to support a team of accountants in providing full-charge accounting services across the US and Canada.   You’ll go above and beyond to provide the best customer service to everyone that you work with, while ensuring our customers receive timely, accurate and insightful information about their business. 

At Ascend we're all in the business of providing the best system and best support for our world-class software.  So, in addition to primary job duties, you'll be called on and encouraged to help in all areas of our business.

What you’ll do as an Accounting Specialist:

• Import sales, cost of goods sold, deposits and inventory movement entries from Ascend or other POS systems into accounting software.
• Manually enter invoices for assigned accounts into accounting software.
• Match and reconcile invoices to receiving activity.
• Perform reconciliations on bank, credit card and loan accounts to statements each financial period.
• Research nominal discrepancies in receiving or banking activity.
• Code items to GL accounts but verifies accuracy with Accountant as needed.
• Provide support to the accounting team as needed.

What you’ll bring to the role / what we’re looking for:

• A two-year technical degree or higher or equivalent accounting experience is required.
• Actively seeks training and growth opportunities, both internally and externally.
• Proficient understanding of debits and credits and have a working knowledge of accounting principles.
• Basic understanding of the accounting cycle.
• Keep calm and stay positive in a busy environment.
• Regularly communicate and listen actively with their peers and clients.

Hourly Pay Range: $20-22