Junior Accountant

Job Description

Junior Accountant | EEA Companies

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at EEA Companies, located in Greensboro, NC, with flexible work-from-home options available. EEA Companies is a multi-entity organization, offering opportunities to develop a broad accounting skill set through exposure to various industries and business operations. The Junior Accountant supports day-to-day accounting operations, primarily focusing on software billing and accounts receivable, ensuring financial transactions are processed accurately and efficiently across EEA’s portfolio of businesses. This position is ideal for an early-career accounting professional who is detail-oriented, analytical, eager to learn, and motivated to expand their accounting knowledge and skills within a multi-entity organization.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid – Greensboro, NC
• Pay: $48000–$52000 yearly
• Team: Finance & Accounting team, reports to Accounting Manager
• Mission: The Junior Accountant helps ensure financial transactions are processed accurately, efficiently, and in accordance with established accounting procedures across EEA’s portfolio of businesses.
• Tech Stack: NetSuite, Microsoft Excel

What You’ll Actually Do
• Manage software billing: Oversee recurring and contract-based customer billing for the software business, ensuring accurate and timely invoice issuance by reviewing contracts and updating NetSuite records.
• Process financial transactions: Handle accounts payable transactions, including invoice entry, account coding, and preparing approved vendor payments via ACH, checks, and wire transfers, while reviewing vendor statements.
• Support accounts receivable: Record and apply customer payments, research unapplied cash, resolve routine payment discrepancies, monitor accounts receivable aging, and assist with collection efforts.
• Assist real estate accounting: Coordinate and process monthly financial imports from third-party property management companies, review for completeness, and support recurring tenant billing and payment tracking.
• Maintain accounting records: Ensure all accounting records, supporting documentation, and vendor/customer information are accurate, complete, and properly maintained within NetSuite. Also, assist with routine bank and credit card reconciliations.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Entry-Level. Foundational understanding of accounting principles, including debits and credits, general ledger activity, and account reconciliations.
• Experience: 0–2 years of relevant accounting experience, with recent graduates who have accounting internships highly encouraged to apply.
• Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, excellent attention to detail with a commitment to accuracy, ability to manage multiple responsibilities, and strong written and verbal communication. Candidates should be willing to learn new systems and procedures, able to work collaboratively, and take ownership of assigned responsibilities.
• Bonus: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; previous experience with customer billing, accounts receivable, or accounts payable; familiarity with NetSuite or another enterprise resource planning (ERP) system; experience working with multiple business entities or accounting functions.