Seeking a Bookkeeper!

Bookkeeping Job Description
Contractor Role
January–December, 2024

Theater in Asylum is looking for a skilled part-time Bookkeeper to maintain our financial records, including purchases, sales, receipts, and payments. This position is a one-year contract position, and we anticipate the person working five to ten hours a month. Bookkeeper job duties include working closely with our Managing Director to process accounts payable and receivable and manage invoices and payments. Our ideal candidate has bookkeeping experience for a non-profit and is familiar with QuickBooks accounting software.

Ultimately, the Bookkeeper’s responsibilities are to accurately record all day-to-day financial transactions of our company.

Responsibilities:

• Record financial transactions in Quickbooks and budgets
• Monitor TIA’s balances and cash flow
• Verify that transactions are recorded correctly
• Enter data and maintain records
• Process accounts receivable/payable 
• Catalogs receipts on all TIA expenditures to prepare for potential audits.

Requirements and skills:

• Proven bookkeeping experience
• Solid understanding of basic bookkeeping and accounting payable/receivable principles
• Proven ability to calculate, post, and manage accounting figures and financial records
• Data entry skills along with a knack for numbers
• Hands-on experience with spreadsheets and Quickbooks
• Proficiency in Google Suite
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Compliance with Theater in Asylum's Community Agreemetns

Compensation:
We are a very small fiscally sponsored theater company with an operating budget in 2024 of around $18,000. Everyone working as part of the administrative contracted staff (including the role of the Bookkeeper) is paid $1,200 for the year. See our budget transparency commitments here.

To apply:
Please email TIA Managing Director Kathryn Appleton.