Junior Accountant

About Wert Group
Wert Group is a management consulting firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. We work on strategy, organization and governance with business leaders, owners and management teams, covering strategic priorities, organization design, operating models, performance review, governance and decision rights, and regional operating models across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The Position
You will keep the financial records behind our engagements in order, so that the numbers a client sees in a decision paper can be traced back to a document. You will work with consultants and the engagement lead on records that arrive in different formats and at different levels of completeness, and you will help turn them into figures that hold up when someone asks where a number came from. The position is permanent and full time, hybrid, based in Boston.

Responsibilities

• Record invoices, expenses and receipts, and keep supporting documents filed so each entry can be matched to its source.
• Reconcile bank and card statements against the ledger each month and flag items that do not match.
• Assist with accounts payable and receivable: check invoices before payment, track what is outstanding, follow up on amounts due.
• Prepare working schedules for engagement budgets and compare actual spending against the assumptions an engagement started with.
• Assist with payroll inputs and expense reports, checking figures before they are passed on.
• Support monthly close and prepare straightforward reports for review by the engagement lead.
• Answer questions from colleagues about a figure or a booking, and correct errors with a clear note of what changed.

Requirements

• Basic bookkeeping knowledge, from studies, an internship, a part-time job or training: double-entry booking, invoices, reconciliation and the difference between a ledger and a statement.
• Confident use of Excel or another spreadsheet tool for entering data, checking totals and building a simple schedule.
• A good command of written and spoken English.
• Care with detail: you check a figure twice before it leaves your desk and notice when a total looks wrong.
• An organized way of working. You keep files in order and can find the document behind an entry months later.
• Discretion with financial and client information, and clear communication when something is missing or unclear.
• Willingness to learn our systems and to ask when a booking or a rule is new to you.

Additional Qualifications

• Coursework or training in accounting, finance or business administration.
• Familiarity with accounting software such as QuickBooks, DATEV, Xero or a comparable system.
• German, given the firm's work with clients in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Terms

• Permanent, full-time position.
• Hybrid arrangement, based in Boston, United States.

The Team
You will sit with the firm's finance work and alongside the consultants whose engagements you support, with the engagement lead reviewing your figures. Engagements run from records to a written recommendation, so your schedules and reconciliations are read by people who need to rely on them.

Your First Review
You will start with last quarter's ledger and bank statements, work through the reconciliations until the records and the statements agree, and prepare a short note on what you found. That note goes into your first review with the engagement lead, and the corrections you make there become part of the working papers behind the next client recommendation.