Junior Accountant
- Company
- Fairstead
- Location
- New York, NY
- Work type
- Full Time · On-site
- Posted
- 2026-08-20
Job description
Responsibilities:
Month-End Close & Financial Reporting:
Support month-end and year-end close across multiple entities, including recording GL activity, verifying accruals, confirming intercompany eliminations tie out, booking amortization and prepaid expense entries, and identifying discrepancies to resolve.
Assist with tax preparations and state compliance filings, including communication with tax preparer for federal and state annual returns, quarterly and annual state and local tax filings and managing annual state registration and franchise fee filings.
Provide ad-hoc reports at the request of operations and management.
Accounts Payable, Billing & Expense Management:
Perform key accounts payable actions in Bill.com, including inputting, coding and allocating invoices, onboarding vendors, and assisting with 1099 reporting and filing.
Review employee corporate credit card and personal expense reimbursements submitted through Expensify, including reviewing that receipts and invoices provided are in line with policy and that credit cards are reconciled on a timely basis.
Review monthly invoicing procedures, communicating with operations to ensure billing is correct and monitoring that invoices are collected on a timely basis.
Treasury Functions:
Cash Funding & Movement: assist with monitoring daily cash positions; support bi-weekly payroll funding across multiple entities ahead of each pay date; process weekly payment runs, checks, and bill disbursements.
Banking User Maintenance: support administration of online banking platform access across entity accounts — help set up, modify, and deactivate authorized users under supervision; maintain permission-level documentation in line with internal controls; assist as a point of contact for bank portal access issues.
Treasury & Cash Reporting: help prepare liquidity reports for management review; retrieve and reconcile monthly bank statements across multiple banking relationships; perform monthly/quarterly bank reconciliations and flag outstanding items to senior staff.
Account Opening & Management: assist with opening new bank accounts for new entities or projects, including gathering documentation and supporting KYC requirements
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related field
0–2 years of relevant accounting experience
Familiarity with QuickBooks and Expensify, NetSuite, or Bill.com preferred; exposure to Yardi and Expensify a plus
Solid foundational reconciliation and bookkeeping skills, with the ability to stay organized across multiple entities and deadlines.
High attention to detail and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving discrepancies
Good communication skills for coordinating with entity stakeholders, bank relationship managers, and outside tax preparers under senior staff guidance.
Advanced Excel skills; experience with Smartsheet a plus.