Staff Accountant

Essential Job Functions

• Portray a positive attitude under all circumstances, understand and represent the core values of Apache Casino Hotel and live the mission of always providing exceptional service.
• Work effectively with peers, team members and regulatory agency personnel.
• Ensure financial activities comply with all laws, rules, regulations, and controls applicable to Apache Casino Hotel operations including, but not limited to, NIGC, MICS, State Compact, Tribal Gaming Commission, etc.
• Support the Accounting Manager and Director of Finance in carrying out department responsibilities.
• Prepare reports related to casino business activity and financial position in areas of income, expenses, and earnings based on past, present, and expected operations.
• Responsible for monthly balance sheet account reconciliations.
• Prepare documentation and coordinate various audits; prepare reports required by regulatory agencies. 
• Prepare accounting-related entries to numerous registers, journals, and logs.
• Perform other related duties and projects as assigned.
• Follow Apache Casino Hotel’s established accounting processes.
• Regular attendance is required.

Core Competencies

• Adhere to and act in accordance with all casino policies and procedures, and applicable federal, state and local regulations.
• Maintain a neat, clean, and well-groomed appearance (specific standards may apply departmentally based on uniform requirements).  Where uniforms are required, they must be clean and pressed at the beginning of each shift.
• Understand and comply with the Eye, Hi, Goodbye program.
• Competency to follow detailed procedures and ensure accuracy in documentation, carefully monitoring processes and routine work details.
• Ability to clearly present information verbally and in writing; read and interpret complex information; actively listen and talk with guests and team members.
• Ability to maintain a calm demeanor during stressful situations. 
• Demonstrate a high level of service delivery to ensure guest and team member satisfaction; handle service failures and prioritize guest and team member needs.
• Prepare for known problems and opportunities in advance; willingness to undertake additional responsibilities and respond to situations as they arise.
• Maintain high standards despite pressing deadlines; reinforce excellence as a fundamental priority.
• Capable of using tact, maintaining confidences, and fostering an ethical work environment; giving proper credit to others, and handling situations honestly.
• Ability to adapt behavior to others’ styles, interact with people who have different values, culture, or backgrounds, be of service to difficult people, optimize the benefits of having a diverse workforce, developing rapport with others, and recognizing their concerns and feelings to build and maintain long-term associations based on trust.
• Share due credit with team members; display team spirit, enthusiasm and promote a friendly group working environment; work closely with other departments as necessary; support group decisions and solicit opinions from fellow team members.
• Ability to operate various types of equipment used in your department, for example personal computers, printers, copy machines, facsimile machines, and telephone.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance, with a minimum of three years progressively responsible accounting and/or finance experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Comprehensive knowledge of general ledger account reconciliation and capital budgeting, with knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local reporting requirements and laws and regulations relating to applicable financial operations, and a thorough understanding of generally accepted accounting principles. 
• Ability to interpret and understand gaming regulatory requirements, with gaming experience preferred. Experience with payroll information management and support systems preferred with knowledge of and experience with Great Plains software a plus.
• Experience with and knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local reporting requirements.
• Strong customer service orientation.
• Robust computer skills which include effective working knowledge of Microsoft Office Products with advanced Excel skills to analyze and manipulate data, customize the work area, use advanced functions, and use personalized toolbars.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Gaming Commission license and pass a background check and drug-screening test.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential job functions.

While performing job duties the team member may be regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The team member may occasionally be required to stand, walk, climb, or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The team member may occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

While performing job duties the team member is regularly exposed to risks associated with travel between buildings and back and forth to other areas as may be required due to business demands. The team member is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, including second-hand environmental smoke. The noise level in the work environment varies from light to moderate, and there are fluctuations in lighting due to flashing lights from slot machines and band lighting.