Purpose:
This position will report to the Director, Finance and will support Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago. The incumbent will be accountable for creating journal entries and assembling supporting documentation, as well as for tracking the contents of accounts, creating portions of the financial statements, and writing process narratives.

Location:  Chicago, Illinois

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform certain of the period-end close activities to ensure the financial statements are produced on a timely basis.
• Perform balance sheet and income statement variance analysis to ensure financial statement accuracy.
• Maintain detailed listings of the contents of certain balance sheet accounts and assure they reconcile, each month, to the general ledger
• Book consolidation, inter-company transactions and reconciliations
• Maintain an assigned list of monthly journal entries
• Record supporting information for all journal entries
• Enter all journal entries into the accounting software
• Ensure that reversing entries occur
• Create recurring journal entry templates
• Ensure that recurring entries are changed or terminated at appropriate trigger points
• Prepare audit schedules and assist auditors with their inquiries and testing
• Assist with the SOX-like process of monitoring and updating certain business process narratives
• Assist with testing key controls
• Other duties as assigned.

Desired Qualifications:
At least 2 years of accounting experience. Bachelor's degree in business, accounting or related field required.

Salary Exempt position is competitive and commensurate with experience. Company-paid Benefits are included.