Staff Accountant POST NUMBER: 482543
Hybrid: (2x a week – Tues & Thurs)
Location: Downtown Atlanta
Compensation: $70,000-75,000/year salary
Vaco is partnering with a growing investment firm to hire a Staff Accountant. This role supports daily accounting operations across the organization and its affiliated entities, ensuring accurate financial data, strong internal controls, and smooth audit and reporting processes. The Staff Accountant reports to the Senior Accountant and plays a key role in maintaining operational efficiency in a fast?paced, expanding environment.
Key Responsibilities
Cash & General Accounting
- Monitor daily bank activity and process routine cash transfers.
- Prepare and record journal entries (capital calls, application fees, cash receipts/disbursements, travel reports, affiliate rebills, month?end entries).
- Deposit checks, research unidentified transactions, and maintain positive pay for fraud prevention.
- Record all revenue (cash, credit card, stock) in the subledger and general ledger.
- Maintain stock gift records in compliance with policy.
- Monitor clearing accounts and ensure timely recording of investment?related gifts.
- Review interfund revenue and assist with planned tracking.
- Support the full A/R cycle, including invoice creation and monitoring outstanding balances.
- Assist with affiliate rebills and collections tracking.
- Record monthly general ledger activities and close entries.
- Prepare audit schedules and documentation for annual audit and tax filings.
- Assist with monthly asset fee accruals and allocation journal entries.
- Manage the gifts inbox, ensuring timely and accurate responses to internal teams and donors.
- Follow internal controls and support process documentation and cross?training.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting paired with 3–5 years of GL accounting experience (required)
- Large company experience ($300-500M ) with a stable job history (required)
- Strong understanding of fund, and investment accounting (preferred)
- Advanced MS Excel skills – Pivot Tables, Lookups, formulas (required)
- Various ERP systems experience - (Sage, SAP, NetSuite, Oracle, D365, etc. (required)
Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
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Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.