Accounting Specialist

The Salvation Army, an internationally recognized non-profit, faith-based organization, has a job opening for an Accounting Specialist for the Coastal Alabama Area Command, located in Mobile, Alabama.

About this opportunity:

Performs specialized clerical and bookkeeping tasks in the recording and maintenance of precise fiscal records and financial data. Applies detailed bookkeeping knowledge and skills to varied bookkeeping tasks such as recording revenue and expense transactions, checking entries, processing payments, reconciling accounts, and preparing basic financial reports into computerized financial systems in an accurate, complete, and timely manner

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities include:

• Knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping principles and practices and of applications to accounting transactions.
• Knowledge of computerized accounting.
• Ability to perform account reconciliations in order to ensure that accounts balance
• Ability to research account discrepancies and/or inquiries and provide accurate and complete information.

What we are looking for in you:

• Two year college or technical school degree in accounting, bookkeeping, business or related field AND
• two years’ experience in the performance of increasingly complex bookkeeping work utilizing a computerized accounting system with detailed exposure to double-entry fund accounting OR
• any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

Work is performed in a normal office environment where there are little or no physical discomforts associated with changes in weather or discomforts associated with noise, dust, dirt, and the like.

Employee Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Basic & Voluntary Life Insurance
• Aflac Supplemental - Critical Illness; Accident; Hospital; Vision; Dental
• Paid Time Off program & Parental Leave

The Salvation Army offers a broad range of career opportunities particularly targeted toward those motivated by our mission to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination. We strive to do the “Most Good” for our employees by offering a greater sense of purpose in the work performed by training and mentoring employees and by offering competitive compensation and benefit plans. Our employees understand at the core of their work is the opportunity to be an integral part of an organization that is Doing the Most Good, with these five values at the heart of everything we do:

We are…

• Passionate
• Compassionate
• Uplifting
• Brave
• Trustworthy

To learn more about the Alabama Louisiana Mississippi Divisional Headquarters, please visit: https://SACoastAL.org

Additional Information: All employees recognize that The Salvation Army is a church and agree that they will do nothing as an employee of The Salvation Army to undermine its religious mission.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

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