Bookkeeper

Position Summary:
Provide financial and operational services for the day to day running of the parish

Essential Functions:
1) Review timesheets for discrepancies
2) Process paperwork for new employees and changes in current employees' status
3) Verify attendance, hours worked for all employees
4) Keep track of all leave time, such as vacations, personal days, sick time, unpaid leave, bereavement time off for all employees
5) Prepare payroll for all employees, including remit withholding tax to appropriate government entities
5) Sort, verify and prepare payment of all bills
6) Oversee the collection of all moneys owed to the parish
7) Count and prepare all bank deposits
8) Maintain in an orderly and neat manner all financial records of the parish

Positions Qualifications:
1) People skills: Ability to deal with clergy, parish staff & the general public tactfully courteously and with discretion
2) Accuracy: Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly
3) Detail Oriented: Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
4) Reliability: Ability to be dependable and trustworthy
5) Responsibility: Ability to be accountable or answerable for one's actions
6) Loyalty: Ability to have a sense of duty to the parish
7) Honesty: Ability be truthful and credible
8) Working knowledge of the tenets of the Catholic Faith

Other Requirements:
1) Two years of bookkeeping experience
2) Working knowledge of accounting principles
3) Experience working with an electronic bookkeeping system; preferable Quick Books