Employment
PROFILE OF THE SEMINARY
Based in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, we are the leading urban Lutheran seminary training students to serve in the global community. True to our Lutheran heritage and built on a foundation of intellectual rigor, we equip students for visionary ministry. Students receive the skills they need to be leaders in the public church—the people of God bringing faith and action into their communities and the world. Here, students receive a well-rounded education from renowned faculty, preparing them for a purposeful vocation in a pluralistic and global world.
As a Reconciling in Christ seminary, LSTC seeks to offer hospitality and welcome to all who enter LSTC’s academic programs. Following Jesus Christ, whose reconciling love bridged barriers and made strangers friends, we seek to welcome and learn from one another’s particularity-including but not limited to one another’s race, national or ethnic origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, physical ability, social status and theological diversity.
OPEN POSITIONS
Senior Staff Accountant
Reporting to the Controller, the full-time salaried Senior Staff Accountant oversees student account data, reconciles general ledger accounts, and performs other related tasks within the Finance Office. The Senior Staff Accountant is an integral member of the finance office team.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Prepare and record journal entries for month-end close.
- Manage student account transactions (enter miscellaneous charges, student billing, fees etc.).
- Prepare monthly general ledger account roll-forwards, reconciliations, and analyses (including bank reconciliations.
- Follow up on outstanding issues and work with the team to clear reconciling issues.
- Ensure timely distribution of monthly departmental reporting.
- Prepare work papers and assist with the compilation of financial statements for the annual audit.
- Follow up on accounts receivable collections, as necessary.
- Manage corporate credit card expenditures and follow up with employees on unrecorded charges and other issues.
- Manage the preparation of periodic tax filings (1099,1098-T, 1042).
- Assist with accounts payable, as needed.
- Assist in ad hoc projects, as assigned.