Staff Accountant (entry-level)

PSI, an ESS company, partners with educational and school health staff who are passionate about their profession and value innovation and creativity. For over 45 years, PSI and ESS have been proud to continually develop new and exciting services for schools and for our staff. 

Overview: The Staff Accountant is responsible for supporting month-end close, financial reporting, payroll processing, budgeting support and multi-system accounting operations. This role works cross-functionally to ensure accurate financial data, support system transitions, and maintain strong internal controls in a growing, multi-entity environment.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support and perform monthly close processes
• Prepare and post journal entries, including accruals, reclassifications, payroll-related entries and inter-company activity
• Perform account reconciliations and resolve discrepancies
• Analyze variances and assist with SG&A and cost review
• Support budgeting and forecasting initiatives
• Reconcile payroll data and upload payroll entries into accounting system
• Maintain accurate expense coding and system integrity within NetSuite
• Support revenue and customer profitability analysis
• Develop and maintain accounting process documentation
• Partner with operations and leadership to ensure financial accuracy and reporting quality
• Assist with client-level reporting and financial analysis
• Monitor accrual estimates and compare to actual results
• Respond to internal accounting and system-related inquiries
• Identify opportunities for process improvement

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting
• Minimum of one year of previous experience in accounting
• Expert in Excel with pivot tables and lookup tables
• Team player
• Strong verbal, written, and oral communication skills
• Highly detail oriented

ESS ADVANTAGES:

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, life, disability)
• 401(k)
• PTO (personal, vacation, sick, Volunteer time off, Mental health day)
• Opportunities for growth

PHYSICAL DEMANDS - The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly stands, walks, sits, uses hands to finger, handle, or feel, reaches with hands and arms, talk or hear.

VISION REQUIREMENTS - Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less) to work on the computer.

WORK ENVIRONMENT - The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

This position works in an environment with moderate noise level. (Examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic.)

Note: Nothing in this job specification restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Critical features of this job are described under various headings above. They may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons, with or without notice.  The above statements are strictly intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees in this position.