Junior Accountant

Who We Are

GovOS is a leading provider of transaction and compliance software for state and local governments to streamline property, licensing, and tax interactions with businesses and citizens. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, GovOS serves more than 800 government agencies across the United States. With the company’s secure suite of cloud-based solutions, governments can maximize revenue, increase compliance, reduce costs, and meet constituent demand for modern, self-service transaction and payment services.

Across the country, local governments are working hard to improve the lives of their citizens, as well as their own employees. We are 100% invested in providing governments with innovative solutions and industry-leading services that will help them deliver impactful change in their communities. Government agencies have been winning awards with us for almost 20 years now. We have the highest customer retention rates in our industry because no one works harder than we do to ensure our customers’ success.

Our Mission Statement

To enable state and local governments to modernize their citizens and business transactions through innovative SaaS solutions and seamless payments.

The Junior Accountant performs a critical role in processing and managing all accounts payable transactions, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and adherence to coding policy and procedures for financial accuracy. They will be responsible for facilitating collections of delinquent accounts, maintaining customers communications records, and maintaining positive relationships with our customers. They will perform daily cash applications to customer funds collected. The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to work independently in a rapid growth, fast pace, SaaS Environment. 

  Role & Responsibilities   

• Support the GovOS Accounting Team in achieving a 5-day month-end close.
• Enter invoices into the accounts payable system (Ramp) ensuring accuracy and completeness of invoice information including vendor details, departmental and GL coding.
• Manage the accounts payable inbox, responding to all emails received to the inbox in a timely manner, such as vendor inquiries and resolving any payment-related matters.  
• Maintain accurate vendor records, including contact information, payment terms, contracts, and tax documentation.
• Ensure timely and accurate invoice approval from budget approvers.
• Prepare weekly payment batches using Ramp reporting in collaboration with the FP&A department.
• Accurately review employee reimbursement requests weekly, ensuring proper receipt reconciliation and departmental and GL coding.
• Daily reconciliation and coding of employee credit card transactions.
• Lead collection efforts across the organization to meet DSO of 45 days.  
• Leverage various communication methods, such as email and phone, to communicate with customers.
• Work collaboratively with the Billing Department to understand and keep track of customer communications.  
• Documenting all collections findings and tracking expected payment dates, for weekly Collections reporting.  
• Perform daily cash application posting of customer payments in NetSuite to applicable invoices.
• Perform monthly bank reconciliations.
• Accurately post journal entries.
• Assist with ad hoc tasks as needed. 

 Qualifications:  

• 1-2 years of experience working in Accounts Payable or SaaS collections.
• Excellent communication skills, attention to detail, strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, always delivering positive customer service via email and phone calls.
• Comfortable operating various software tools to perform research and documentation.  
• Ability to work independently and prioritize tasks effectively in a high growth, high transaction volume department.
• NetSuite experience, Ramp experience is preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel (Pivot tables and VLOOKUP’s).
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field is preferred. 

 Compensation & Benefits  

• $59,000 annual base  
• Remote Opportunities (Some state restrictions – see below)   
• Leadership and career development opportunities  
• Competitive insurance (medical, dental, vision, and voluntary life & disability)  
• Mental health benefits  
• 401(k) plan with company match  
• Paid holidays  
• Flexible PTO - no accruals  
• Generous paid parental leave  
• Monthly work from home stipend  

  While we are a remote organization we do have restrictions in a few states: Unfortunately, we CANNOT hire in these select locations: 

Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Washington DC, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia

The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including but not limited to work experience and performance.

GovOS, Inc. (“GovOS”) provides this California Privacy Notice (“Notice”) to describe its privacy practices with respect to its collection of Personal Information as required under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). GovOS’s CCPA-specific policies can be found at https://govos.com/privacy-policy/ and should be carefully reviewed prior to providing any Personal Information. This Notice applies only to job applicants and candidates for employment who reside in the State of California (“Consumers”) and from whom GovOS collects “Personal Information” (as defined in the CCPA). GovOS provides you with this Notice because under the CCPA, California residents who are job applicants qualify as "Consumers.”