Career Opening: Bookkeeper

Are you ready to grow your future? We’re looking for you!

Latham’s Bookkeeper position is vital to our operation. If you want to be part of a team more than 75 years strong – apply today. (We’re waiting!)

Latham Hi‑Tech Seeds is an independent seed company servicing the upper Midwest. Today the third generation is proud to carry on the family tradition. Latham Hi‑Tech Seeds is committed to bringing world-class technology and service home to rural communities in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. We take great pride in breeding and selecting hybrids and brands that perform best in the geographies we serve, offering corn, soybeans and alfalfa. With a great team onboard, we know we can fulfill the needs of our dealers and customers while providing great results.

This Bookkeeper position is responsible for recording the financial transactions of the organization and taking care of day-to-day functions. This is a full-time position.

Responsibilities

• Maintains records of financial transactions by establishing accounts, posting transactions; ensures compliance with legal requirements
• Maintains subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, and posting transactions
• Balances subsidiary accounts by reconciling entries
• Maintains general ledger by transferring subsidiary account summaries
• Balances general ledger by preparing a trial balance, reconciling entries
• Maintains historical records by filing documents
• Prepares financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends
• Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying requirements, enforcing adherence to requirements, filing reports, advising management on needed actions
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Complies with Latham Hi-Tech Seeds personnel policies
• Performs other duties as assigned by the supervisor

Skills and Abilities Required

• Ability to analyze information and deal with complexity
• Meticulous attention to detail, thoroughness  
• Data entry skills
• Basic mathematical abilities
• Comfortable working with spreadsheets
• Ability to keep information confidential
• Should be able to function independently
• Interested in working as part of a team
• Strong interest in business functions
• Ability to adapt to change
• Ability to work under pressures

Minimum Job Requirements

• High School graduate or equivalent
• Previous bookkeeping experience preferred
• Skills in cost analyses and inventory control preferred

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

• Able to carry boxes and packages of supplies
• Able to do repetitive bending and sitting
• Able to complete repetitive movement of upper extremities
• Able to work regular hours as well as some weekends, after hours, and holidays