Accountant Intermediate

About the Role

Join the PSL Accounting team as an Accountant Intermediate. This position is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Reads and analyzes contracts to ensure proper accounting of expenses, as required by the contract.
• Liaison with RAS to address any concerns about language / clauses (T&Cs) of concern to PSL.
• Assists in establishing labor rates and activity codes for Time and Material (T&M) contracts.
• Reconciles all contracts monthly, to include labor distributions by index/fund along with spending and tasks.
• Prepares journal vouchers and Electronic Labor Redistributions.
• Reviews all spending and notifies PIs of potential problems.
• Assists in the setup of new funds / index numbers as required.
• Provides Sponsored Project Accounting (SPA) with required reports and invoicing/billing information for the customers.
• Verifies and approves Purchase Orders, Pcard expenses, and Direct Pays for contracts.
• Prepares budgets for new contract proposals.
• Reconciles monthly payroll clearing account and leave accrual fund balances for PSL employees.
• Reconciles quarterly CLC clearing accounts, and prepares Journal Voucher to book indirect charges, and any surplus/overage.
• Assists Main Campus Auditing as it relates to audits of contract related information (internal and external auditors).
• Annually, closes out and boxes all old contract information and moves paperwork to storage.
• May direct or supervise the work of assigned personnel including recommendations for hiring, firing, performance evaluation, training, work allocation, and problem resolution.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
• Supervises and train students working in Accounting Office.
• Position requires the ability to work with PSL Management, Internal Service Centers, RAS, SPA and PI's.

Required Qualifications

• Associate's Degree + 2 years of relevant experience or a Bachelor's degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Bachelor's degree and successful completion of at least 12 credit hours of Accounting (ACCT) course work.
• Preferred Experience: One (1) year of professional experience directly related to the standard duties as outlined.

Working Conditions and Physical Effort

• Environment: Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment.
• Physical Effort: No or very limited physical effort required.
• Lifting Requirements: Requires handling of average-weight objects up to 10 pounds or some standing or walking.
• Risk: No or very limited exposure to physical risk.