Financial Services Specialist I / Accountant Job location:1 Hayden St, Petersburg, VA 23806 Job Type: Contract Job Description:- The department is looking for someone who can do reconciliation, account receivables/Payable, general ledger and data entry. - Experience preparing reconciliations (bank, expenditure, etc.)
- Journal Entry preparation
- Data analysis
- Data entry and verification
- Strong skillset in Microsoft Excel
Mandatory skills/certification(s) Requirement:
- Accounting Degree.
- Ability to carry out instructions quickly and accurately
- Advanced computer proficiencies in MS Office with the ability to efficiently learn new technologies. Emphasis is placed on proficiency in MS Excel and ACCESS.
- Ability to key data accurately from printed forms
- Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently
Reporting Relationships: - General Accounting Manager
- Assistant Controller
- Experience in accounting and finance is required.
- More accounting experience, especially in the area of reconciliations of large amounts of data to include preparing and processing adjusting journal entries. Also, there is a large amount of on-line data entry.
Duties/Responsibilities:Assist the General Accounting Office in maintaining daily operations by performing duties in the areas of reconciliations (suspense accounts and unearned/deferred revenue), deposit certificate review and processing, online journal processing in the Banner and/or Cardinal accounting systems, and maintenance/safeguarding of processed financial transactions.
- Completes the monthly suspense accounts and unearned/deferred revenue reconciliations. Prepares adjusting entries as needed.
- Reviews and processes suspense account deposit certificate (DC) transactions and journal entries received from the Cash & Investments' Office. Keys online Cardinal and/or Banner transactions.
- Downloads the Student Banner Feed transactions and prepares the Cardinal journal on a weekly basis or more often as requested.
- Reviews the REDI VA website on a daily basis and prepares the deposit certificate(s) and Banner journal(s) for student related EDI wire deposits.
- Reviews and prepares the Banner journal(s) related to Agency-to-Agency (ATA) funds transfer-in.
- Reviews, codes, and updates the Funds Transfer Form Log for all suspense account related transactions.
- Reviews monthly interdepartmental transfer journals (SPCC, UTS, Postage, Travel/Motor Pool, Print Management, and Locksmith) for completeness. Prepares the associated Banner FUPLOAD forms and Cardinal spreadsheet journals for processing.
- Reviews, logs, files, stores, and safeguards processed transactions to ensure compliance with decentralization requirements.
- Assist as needed in Banner/Cardinal data entry in absence of co-workers.
- Assist as needed with the preparation of desk procedures to standardize work flow.