Accounting Assistant

Company Overview

Fast Lane Consulting and Education Services, Inc. is a privately-held IT Training and Technical Services Company located in Cary, North Carolina. Fast Lane is part of a world-wide company that offers a broad array of hands-on vendor-authorized IT and Sales classes including Cisco Systems, Microsoft, NetApp, VMware as well as vendor neutral courses developed inhouse. We also provide technical professional services including Consulting, Solution deployment, Staff Augmentation, Learning as a Service (LaaS) and Content Development.

Position Overview

The successful person will be joining an established team.

This full time position requires a general understanding of accounting principles, accounts payable, accounts receivable and related accounting activities. A successful candidate will be required to independently make routine choices within established procedures, enter, compile, and extract data, create existing reports on a regular schedule, perform basic troubleshooting to reconcile account balances and perform inquiries to obtain missing information or verify unusual data.

An intermediate level of computer skills including MS Office are required and prior use of QuickBooks is a benefit.

Salary and Benefits

This position has a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package that includes health care coverage, life insurance, paid personal time off, corporate paid holidays and a 401(k) plan.

Personal Attributes

We are looking for a committed, flexible and highly motivated individual who is able to support the growth of a fast-paced business. While this job description outlines the key functions of the position, the selected individual must be prepared to take on any accounting, finance, controlling or even data entry tasks that will contribute to help make the company a success.

The key attributes of the person we are looking for include:

  • Bachelors Degree in Accounting or a similar area of study
  • Experience commensurate with 2+ years of accounting is desirable
  • An intermediate level of computer skill is required especially a strong knowledge of MS Office
  • An understanding and experience with QuickBooks is very desirable
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Team player
  • Sound business understanding
  • Proactive and responsive
  • Financially aware
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Ability to “multi-task”
  • Ability to work to deadlines