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Essential Duties and Responsibilities

+ Uses general ledger accounting software to prepare financial statements, budgets and reports for internal use.

+ Prepares general ledger entries on a daily basis.

+ Maintains policy and procedures manuals.

+ Analyzes general ledger accounts to identify unusual or irregular transactions and makes recommendations to resolve.

+ Reconciles general ledger accounts, prepares analyses and completes other monthly general ledger closing procedures.

+ Prepares reports of financial information for management.

+ Prepares information and responds to internal/external auditor requests.

+ Identifies and recommends process improvements to increase efficiency in processing or analyzing financial information.

+ Limited responsibility for resolving routine accounting problems.

+ Allocates costs to individual organizational entities and analyzes the impact of cost allocation on individual financial statements.

+ Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Knowledge of

+ Fundamental accounting concepts, practices and procedures.

+ Accrual based accounting practices.

+ Accounting software packages or ability to learn specific applications.

+ Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

Skill in

+ Analyzing and resolving balance discrepancies.

+ Reviewing and interpreting financial information.

+ Identifying unusual transaction and accounting discrepancies.

+ Preparing financial statements, budgets and management reports.

+ Preparing and posting journal entries.

+ Operating standard office equipment and using required software applications to produce correspondence, reports, electronic communication, spreadsheets and databases.

Ability to

+ Identify and recommend changes to standard procedures when required by specific situations and circumstances.

+ Identify and recommend solutions to moderately complex accounting problems.

+ Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with all organizational levels.

+ Organize, manage and track multiple detailed tasks and assignments with frequently changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.

+ Provide a high level of customer service.

Education/Previous Experience

+ Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.) in Accounting.

+ Two (2) years’ experience preferred.

+ OR ~

+ Any equivalent combination of experience, education and/or training approved by Human Resources.

Licenses/Certifications

+ None Required.

**Travel Required:** No