Junior Accountant

Job Description

Junior Accountant | Kolar Design

The Tone:
This is an early career role at Kolar Design, located in Cincinnati, OH. Kolar Design is a creative firm focused on transforming how people interact with spaces and each other. This role is crucial for maintaining the firm’s financial health by managing daily accounting tasks and ensuring accurate financial records. The Junior Accountant will help bring consistency and reliability to essential accounting functions across the business.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Location: Cincinnati, OH
• Mission: Ensures consistency and reliability across key accounting functions including accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit card tracking, and journal entries.
• Tech Stack: Accounting software, financial management software, Excel

What You’ll Actually Do
• Client Invoicing: Manage client billing processes, including the preparation and timely delivery of invoices, tracking incoming payments, and supporting follow-up on outstanding balances, ensuring accurate billing through timesheet validation.
• Financial Transactions: Process accounts payable by entering vendor invoices and employee reimbursements, tracking and reconciling credit card charges with proper coding, and recording daily financial transactions including bank deposits and receipts.
• General Ledger Management: Prepare and accurately enter journal entries into the general ledger, support monthly reconciliation of bank and balance sheet accounts, and maintain organized, audit-ready financial documentation.
• Reporting & Close: Support critical month-end close activities, including necessary reconciliations and accrual entries, and assist in preparing internal reports to track budgets and spending, ensuring current files for financial visibility.
• Expense and Policy Management: Review employee expense reports for policy compliance, monitor timesheet submissions for project tracking, and help maintain financial policies, templates, and documentation to ensure consistent workflows and identify areas for efficiency.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience), demonstrating a basic understanding of accounting principles and financial processes.
• Experience: 0–2 years in an accounting, finance, or bookkeeping role, with experience using accounting or financial management software.
• Skills: Attention to Detail, Excel Proficiency, Technical Proficiency with financial software and tools, Time Management, Problem-Solving Abilities, Strong Organizational Skills.
• Bonus: Experience in a small business or professional services environment (under 50 employees), exposure to month-end close processes or audit preparation, familiarity with time-based billing or project accounting, experience supporting budgets or internal financial reporting, and an interest in growing into a more advanced accounting or financial operations role.