Staff Accountant POST NUMBER: 482543

Role: Staff Accountant
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.

Revenue Processing

• 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.

Accounts Receivable

• Support the full A/R cycle, including invoice creation and monitoring outstanding balances.
• Assist with affiliate rebills and collections tracking.

Month-End Close, Audit & Reporting

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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)

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.