Company description

Kitchen Table Consultants (https://www.kitchentableconsultants.com/) and Taste Profit Marketing (https://tasteprofit.com/) are sister companies on a mission to help farm and food businesses be profitable for good. We work with hundreds of farm and food businesses across the United States to help them build a new kind of food system – one that is healthier for people, better for the environment, socially responsible, and strengthens local communities.

Job description

Who You Are: You are passionate about the pursuit of a more sustainable future of food by strengthening the resilience and financial viability of farm and food businesses. You've most likely experienced first-hand the complex stresses of farming and food business life and want to make it easier for others by helping them learn from your mistakes. You are happy to roll your sleeves up and do the work alongside our clients, ensuring meaningful outcomes. And importantly, you are excited about joining an ever-growing eclectic team of colleagues from around the country who share the same values of centering empathy, honesty, client empowerment and data driven decision making to all aspects of their work.

This role is part of the KTC Accounting Services team and reports directly to our Director of Accounting Services. We are looking to fill this position in early January 2024.

Scope of Work:

• Create financial foundations for clients to stand on using KTC’s existing financial management structure and approach.
• Reorganize clients’ existing chart of accounts to fit KTC’s established COA standards.
• Develop and maintain QuickBooks files for clients, including enter in daily or weekly transactions, monthly reconciliations of bank, credit card, and loan accounts, post journal entries for certain accounting adjustments, and forensic cleanup and troubleshooting, as needed.
• Develop and execute monthly financial reporting packages and virtual client meetings to review them.
• Virtually teach and train clients through effective communication on business processes.
• Validate clients’ complete understanding of their financial systems by effective follow-through.
• Collaborate with KTC consultants to provide bookkeeping support to consulting projects.
• Work with the KTC Bookkeeping Team to further develop sustainable and repeatable financial practices and processes for our clients to use.
• Assist KTC consultants with advanced analyses of accounting-related subjects, development and implementation of complex accounting processes, curating relevant client-facing tools and resources, and other such collaborations.
• Ongoing bookkeeping, which includes basic transaction maintenance; sales and accounts receivable; expenses and accounts payable; and payroll.
• Initial Setup / Cleanup, which includes set up QBO account; convert desktop file, implement COA, connect bank feeds, etc.
• Develop and refine basic accounting processes, including checks & balances for data accuracy.
• Develop client-facing simplified SOPs for any of the above (including any of the regular ongoing bookkeeping tasks).

Requirements:

• Solid understanding of basic bookkeeping, accounting, receivables/payables, and related business processes is required.
• A minimum of one year of experience using QuickBooks Desktop or QuickBooks Online.
• QBO ProAdvisor certification required (can be acquired after hire).
• Proficient in Google Suite, Microsoft Office and Zoom.
• Previous experience working remotely as part of a team.
• Ability to learn from, follow, and develop written procedures for internal work and as resources for clients.
• Ability to handle a multitude of disjointed tasks.
• Ability to engage with clients by email, phone, and Zoom meetings.
• Must be comfortable working with multiple people, personalities, and levels of accounting knowledge.
• Fearless resolve to dig into clients’ books, determine the appropriate courses of action in concert with other team members, and educate clients on better processes as appropriate for their individual level of understanding.

Other Skills & Useful Experience

• Fluency in Spanish & English.
• Preference will be given to candidates with farming and agriculture industry experience.
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail
• Willing to learn and excel in online platforms for workflow and communication (Asana, Harvest, Slack, Google suite, and others)
• Understanding GAAP preferred
• Understanding of nationwide sales tax and payroll processes

Compensation & Benefits:

• Full time salary exempt.
• Salary range is $50,000.00 to $54,000.00, depending on experience.
• Flexible work schedule.
• Paid holidays, sick time, and paid time off.
• You may elect to join our healthcare coverage plan (we cover a percentage of your monthly premium).
• 401(k) with 4% corporate match.
• This is a remote position - we’ll provide you with a company owned computer and a monthly stipend to cover part of your phone and internet bills.

Compensation

this position is: salaried, $50,000 - $75,000

Location

job can be done remotely

Application instructions

Deadline

December 18, 2023