Accountant

Job Title: Financial Services Specialist I / Accountant

Job Location: Petersburg, VA, 23806

Mode of Hire: Contract

Mode Of Work: Onsite

• 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

• 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. 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

Job Summary

• 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. Duties and Responsibilities

• 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 workflow.

Reporting Relationships:

• General Accounting Manager

• Assistant Controller

Job Type: Contract

Pay: Up to $24.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• Financial concepts: 5 years (Required)
• Accounting: 4 years (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Petersburg, VA 23803 (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $24