What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounting Associate - Facilities & Services position at illinois?
Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide accounting support for F&S capital delivery. ▪ Validate project funding, coordinate Banner plant fund requests and submit funding transfers to OBFS. ▪ Review contracts and change orders for completeness. ▪ Review pay applications for accuracy and compliance. ▪ Prepare journal vouchers and other necessary transactions in financial systems, including Banner, FCPWeb and Kahua. ▪ Reconcile Banner project financial results to the capital project subsidiary system information for accuracy. Analyze, research, document and resolve differences as needed. ▪ Prepare routine and ad hoc financial reports for both F&S and departmental management on project status and capital delivery programs. ▪ Communicate with members of OBFS, Treasury, UOCP&RES and departmental units as necessary to facilitate the financial execution of capital projects.
- Support the fiscal management of F&S departmental operations.
▪ Perform advanced analysis and provide specialized reporting for F&S units. This may include analyzing labor efficiencies, factoring in volume, mix changes, and disparate overhead rates; inventories; cost of goods sold; and cost of labor sold. This will involve evaluating actual financial results against budgets, forecasts and billing rate calculations.
▪ Use independent professional judgment to identify trends, errors, anomalies and omissions. Analyze, research, document and resolve differences as needed.
▪ Provide insight and recommendations to F&S Financial Operations and divisional management for improvements to business related policies, processes, procedures and systems.
▪ Define and track key performance indicators.
▪ Assist in developing detailed financial reports and forecasts on monthly or other periodic basis. Present reports and observations to Financial Operations and divisional department heads. - Assist in the monthly, quarterly and annual close process, including the preparation of necessary journal vouchers, accruals and fact sheets.
- Additional duties as assigned.