Staff Accountant

Position Summary

The Staff Accountant supports the day-to-day execution of MarCom Group’s accounting operations, ensuring financial transactions are accurate, timely, well-documented, and aligned with internal controls and company policies.

This role is responsible for maintaining the general ledger, supporting month-end close activities, managing non-media accounts payable, reviewing and processing expense reports, and administering corporate credit card activity. The Staff Accountant plays an important role in strengthening financial accuracy, improving process consistency, and supporting a responsive, service-oriented finance function.

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, dependable, highly organized, and comfortable balancing recurring accounting responsibilities with follow-up across vendors, employees, and internal stakeholders.

MarCom Group Core Values

At MarCom Group, our “Core Values” guide every interaction—with each other and with our clients:

· Foster Collaboration: We value every voice. We win as one. We proactively seek opportunities to collaborate, reaching across teams and with clients to create solutions together.

· Inspire Possibilities: We imagine more, create boldly, and turn ideas into reality. We stay open-minded, flexible, and creative, always seeking innovative approaches.

· Champion People: We invest in people, and they invest in themselves, so we grow together. We celebrate our team, share wins, and have immense compassion for each other, our clients, and the audiences we serve.

· Lead with Why: We seek to understand, are always curious, and act with intention. We ask “why” to get to the root of challenges and deliver solutions that truly matter.

Key Responsibilities

1. General Ledger Maintenance & Month-End Support

· Maintain assigned general ledger accounts, prepare routine journal entries, and support month-end close.

· Reconcile balance sheet accounts, bank activity, and other assigned accounts; research and resolve discrepancies.

· Maintain accurate documentation and support audit preparation as needed.

2. Non-Media Accounts Payable

· Manage non-media accounts payable, including invoice review, coding, approvals, processing, and payment support.

· Maintain vendor records and respond to vendor or internal inquiries.

· Monitor outstanding payables and follow up on missing approvals, documentation, or coding issues.

3. Expense Report Management

· Review and process employee expense reports for accuracy, documentation, coding, and policy compliance.

· Follow up on missing receipts, questions, or recurring issues to support consistent expense reporting practices.

· Compile receipts and prepare expense reports for client-related travel reimbursement submissions

4. Corporate Credit Card Management

· Administer corporate credit card activity, including transaction review, coding, reconciliation, and documentation.

· Monitor card usage for policy compliance and follow up on missing receipts or unclear transactions.

· Support card issuance, maintenance, cancellation, and timely posting to the general ledger.

5. Accounting Process Support & Internal Controls

· Support consistent accounting processes, documentation standards, and internal controls.

· Maintain organized records for invoices, payments, reconciliations, expense reports, and credit card activity.

· Assist Finance leadership with recurring reports, process improvements, and ad hoc projects.

Skills & Qualifications

Required

· Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field preferred; equivalent experience may be considered.

· 3–5 years of accounting experience, including general ledger maintenance, account reconciliations, journal entries, and month-end support.

· Experience with accounts payable, employee expense reports, and corporate credit card reconciliation.

· Strong understanding of basic accounting principles, documentation standards, and internal controls.

· High attention to detail, strong organization, and ability to manage recurring deadlines.

· Ability to handle confidential financial information with discretion and sound judgment.

Preferred

· Experience in a professional services, agency, marketing, government contracting, or project-based environment.

· Familiarity with accounting platforms, expense management tools, AP systems, audit support, or process improvement.