Job Summary
Responsible for assisting in the maintenance of accounts and performing other accounting related activities. Helps participate in preparing necessary information for financial and/or management reporting. Assists in analyzing financial and management reports to identifying trends and variances. May perform basic analysis and basic level accounting tasks.

Job Responsibilities

• Monitors timeliness of external sources providing required documents, information and payment. Notifies management of late items. Assists with monitoring accounts.
• Research and correction of issues and exceptions as assigned. Helps analyze basic accounts, records, and reports. Investigates and resolves any accounting issues within area of responsibility.
• Performs basic reconciliations for area supported and analyzes resulting variances. May propose and prepare adjusting entries as necessary resulting from reconciliations.
• Creates reports as assigned and per procedures. May prepare basic reports in support of internal and external audits.
• Audits compliance with contracts, negotiated terms, and applicable regulations.
• May assist in exploring modification and implementation in changes in systems and procedures.

• Bachelor's Degree OR High School Diploma/GED and at least 3 years of experience in an analytical role in accounting, finance, business management or auditing.
• Knowledge of applicable regulations.
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
• Willing to travel up to 10 % of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

• Master's Degree in Accountancy or MBA
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business.
• CPA designation.
• Experience with project management (for example: planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Access (for example: designing and creating simple queries, modifying data types, adding dates, working with required fields and/or creating labels).
• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
• Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Experience with analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.