What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounting Specialist position at Dupaco?
The Accounting Specialist is responsible for leading the accounting process and procedures with daily and monthly balancing, posting, and reporting, verifying wire transfers, maintaining accounting processes, and supporting financial reporting for the Credit Union. Supports the accounting department with other special projects as assigned to support the vision of the Credit Union.
Responsibilities:
- Post transactions for the Credit Union internal and external accounts daily as assigned
- Perform the daily balancing of the general ledger accounts related to teller cash, branch proof, interactive teller machines, ATM settlement, cards, automated clearing house (ACH) transactions, shared branching, and bonds
- Responsible for troubleshooting, identifying and resolving financial discrepancies in a timely manner
- Maintain accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions
- Reconcile processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances
- Responsible for maintaining and balancing internal accounts
- Verify expenses are being recorded to proper general ledger accounts, cost centers, branches, and projects by analyzing invoices/expense reports
- Maintain the general ledger chart of accounts and monitor access
- Assist in the preparation of internal and external financial reports along with coordination of filing deadlines for reports assigned
- Assist in ensuring the credit union suffers minimal losses due to failure to comply with operational procedures, regulations, and applicable laws
- Makes recommendations to the supervisor about possible methods of improving the accounting department
- Protect Credit Union’s value by keeping information confidential
- Accomplish accounting and Credit Union mission by completing special projects as assigned
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- An Accounting Degree from an accredited two or four-year school or more than 4-6 years of accounting experience preferred
- Thorough understanding of Accounting principles, debits, credits, and excel spreadsheet applications
- Superior interpersonal abilities to represent Dupaco in a positive way. Ability to get along with diverse personalities, tactful, mature, flexible
- Excellent communication skills with strong written and oral presentation skills, for both internal and external credit union communications and relations
- Self-motivated with good reasoning abilities and sound judgment
- Proficiency in computers; ability to learn in-house application software knowledge and the ability to manage various accounting programs and systems
- Resourceful and well organized with the ability to prioritize work assignments efficiently
- Ability to accurately handle large volumes of details and multi-task effectively
- Ability, availability and willingness to work flexible/additional hours as demanded by the workload
- Demonstrate complex problem solving and strong decision-making skills
