Accounting Services Manager

The  American  Association  for  Justice  (AAJ®)  is  seeking an Accounting Services Manager for its Finance department. AAJ works to preserve the constitutional right to trial by jury and to make sure people have a fair chance to seek justice when they are injured by  the  negligence or misconduct  of  others—even  when  it  means  taking  on  the  most powerful corporations.

The Accounting Services Manager is responsible for all accounting related to the AAJ Endowment, the AAJ Education Fund, PAC States, oversight of all treasury operations (including accounts payable management), and payroll review and backup.  This position will also support efforts to identify and establish new processes, protocols, and systems, and maintain if not create appropriate process documentation.  In this role, the Accounting Services Manager must be able to apply knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

Job Duties:

•    Responsible for full accounting cycle duties and accurate Endowment Reports monthly and to the Board, including Endowment investment   account reconciliation and any related investment journal entries.

•    Timely completion of Endowment and PAC States bank reconciliations; research and resolve any differences.

•    Responsible for full accounting cycle duties for AAJ’s Education Fund monthly including Balance Sheet Account reconciliations (including Ed Fund intercompany accounts and benefits allocations between AAJ and EF).

•    Responsible for various AAJ revenue journal entries and assisting with month end procedures as needed.

•    Lead support person for AAJ’s annual audit of 401(k) Plan and related 5500 filings and provide support for annual financial audit for AAJ.

•    Supervise and review payroll; serve as backup to payroll processing.

•    Supervise the work of a Staff Accountant and an Accounts Payable & Payroll Accountant.

•    Monitor and recommend changes to AAJ internal controls related to Mineral Tree and automated payments as appropriate.

•    Support the automated preparation of employee expense reports in Expense Wire based on monthly corporate card usage; verify employee and board member expense reports are accurate, reasonable and within policy.

•    Reconcile staff credit card statements each month.

•    Manage AAJ’s sales and use tax compliance process.

•    Submit required bank wires for approval by the CFO

•    Support efforts towards compilation of the annual Ed Fund budget, audit and 990  tax  filing,  and  reviews  all  journal  activities  consolidated  into  the  AAJ general ledger.