Staff Accountant

**About Apptegy**Since our start in 2015, we’ve gone from a group of individuals to a community pushing toward the same goal of building a fantastic company with great people, great products, and, most importantly, a great culture.Apptegy is building products to empower school leaders to run better schools. We are building the first marketing platform for schools. Thrillshare, our publishing platform, makes it easy for schools to share positive stories with their communities and the world.We are growing quickly and are focused on bringing thoughtful, high-performers together to craft amazing products for our clients. We’ve been able to build an exceptional engineering team that cares about their work and each other.**What we’ve built and are building**:Apptegy works with thousands of schools and school districts across the United States. For the past 6 years, we’ve been working on making our technology into a breath of fresh air. School leaders, superintendents and administrators have some of the world's most stressful and demanding jobs. They are responsible for the safety, well-being, and education of thousands of students. Every day they juggle the roles of politician, disciplinarian, visionary, and accountant.That’s why we focus on simplicity. By making everything simple, we lower the technical barrier so that any administrator can lead with the most powerful tools available.In short, we are enabling school leaders to brand, market, and strengthen their schools. Amazing events and happenings occur in schools every day and our technology allows that to be shared across the web, mobile, social media, and alerts with a single, simple-to-use tool.**As a Staff Accountant you will...**You will support and help scale our accounting function working closely with our corporate accounting team. We’re growing quickly and need someone that can be part of making us efficient and effective. You will be involved in and responsible for:- Supporting the monthly close process by preparing journal entries, performing reconciliations, and assisting in creating financial statements- Maintaining supporting documentation and analysis for decision-making and audit review- Assisting in managing the Accounts Receivable process by ensuring the accuracy of customer accounts, assisting with data entry, and interacting with customers to discuss their account on a daily and weekly basis- Completing a variety of daily tasks and analyses in order to ensure various internal constituents receive timely financial reporting- Preparing a variety of ad hoc tasks, reports, and analyses as assigned**What you should bring to the table**:- You have a four-year college degree in Accounting.- You have 1-2 years of accounting experience in a professional work environment.- You are detail-oriented, highly organized, and able to focus to finish work.- Comfortable working in Microsoft Excel.- A desire to be part of a fast-growing company.**What we expect from you**:**To work with urgency**:***In this role, you must be incredibly organized, but also efficient and fast. You should be able to point to specific examples and experiences when you had to do great work, quickly.**Strong technical skills**: You enjoy making Excel work smarter for you. You have some experience with pivot tables, advanced formulas (SUMIFS, SUMPRODUCT, VLOOKUP, etc), and can access many of the powerful, advanced functions.**Thoughtful intensity**: You are intense in your work and can manage on your own, but you also know how to look up and help others. You know that Finance is a team that helps Apptegy’s teams, clients, and investors. Working diligently gives you the opportunity to help others and take things off their plate when needed.**Growth mindset**: You are mastering the skill of self-improvement and see every obstacle as an opportunity to learn and grow. While you take pride in everyday work, you also take pride in overcoming new challenges —whether technical or personal in nature.**To learn how we think & be coachable**: In this position, you’ll have an opportunity to work with a number of people. We want you to be open and coachable to how we craft experiences for our clients. Our aim (and your aim) must be to take an Apptegy approach to every interaction and look for ways to surprise our clients.**What else should I know?**We take our responsibility as a company seriously and aim to make this the best job that you’ve had (and one that sets you up for future success). We want your day at work and your time at home to be a joyful experience that’s why we provide:- Medical insurance for you and dependents- Life insurance- 15 days Aguinaldo- Vacation Bonus- Vales de Despensa- Fondo de Ahorro- Caja de Ahorro- Flexible paid time off policy- Paid travel to/from Little Rock, ArkansasIf the challenge of building a rapidly growing startup excites you as much as it does us, we hope that you’ll cons