Full Charge Bookkeeper

Client: Specialty sporting goods and recreational services company Title: Full-Charge Bookkeeper Salary: $30–$33 per hour | $75,000–$80,000 upon conversion Location: Secaucus, NJ | Onsite

Job Description:

A growing owner-led retail business is seeking an experienced Full-Charge Bookkeeper to become its first internal accounting hire.

This is a hands-on role for someone who can independently own the day-to-day accounting function while working closely with company ownership and an outside CPA. The ideal candidate will bring deep bookkeeping experience, strong QuickBooks skills, and the confidence to manage a broad range of accounting responsibilities in a lean small-business environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, vendor payments, and cash receipts.
• Process ACH payments, wires, and other disbursements.
• Perform bank and credit card reconciliations.
• Review POS sales, cash-outs, deposits, and discrepancies.
• Reconcile and monitor POS-to-QuickBooks data transfers.
• Support purchase orders, receiving, inventory counts, and inventory analysis.
• Process biweekly payroll through QuickBooks.
• Prepare and submit monthly sales tax filings and payments.
• Prepare month-end close entries and supporting schedules.
• Perform variance analysis and prepare reporting packages for the outside CPA.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on bookkeeping or accounting experience.
• Strong full-charge bookkeeping background across AP, AR, GL, payroll, sales tax, cash management, and month-end close.
• Excellent QuickBooks experience is required.
• Experience with both QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online is strongly preferred.
• QuickBooks migration, cleanup, or system-conversion experience is highly desirable.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.

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