Accountant-RSW

About the role

Join Roswell Job Corps, where we recruit and support young adults on their path to education, career training, and long-term success. This position performs a variety of professional accounting duties, including monitoring general ledger accounts and preparing journal entries.

Responsibilities

• Prepares journal entries for assigned accounts according to an established schedule.
• Maintains the Imprest Fund according to established policies and procedures.
• Reviews trial balance to locate, identify, and resolve input and accounting errors.
• Maintains center records, ledgers, and journals to determine financial status.
• Transmits payroll hours to the Corporate Payroll Department.
• Maintains all payroll-related data and can back up the bookkeeper in case of absence.
• Maintains the Student Government Association checking account and prepares reports.
• Performs analysis of general ledger accounts by reviewing entries, compiling transactions, resolving open items, and interpreting trends or deviations; includes occasional special analyses.
• Trains the bookkeeper in account coding and inventory controls.
• Maintains inventory systems established by the Finance Manager and conducts quarterly inventories.
• Fills in for the Finance Manager in their absence.
• Prepares required reports such as the 1034 billing voucher and the 2110 financial report.
• Makes weekly bank deposits.
• Prepares balance sheet reconciliations.
• Prepares petty cash and check requests as needed.
• Prepares all accounts payable vouchers and responds to corporate inquiries.
• Compiles Imprest reimbursements and petty cash reimbursements.
• Reviews open PO reports frequently and updates and maintains the AP tracker spreadsheet.
• Assists with budgeting and holds quarterly meetings with department managers.
• Adheres to Department of Labor Policy Requirement Handbook (PRH), Career Systems Development policies, and center operating procedures.
• Maintains confidentiality while reporting significant events or situations through approved channels to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of students and staff.
• Ensures equipment and work areas are clean and maintained in accordance with center, CSD, and DOL standards, including conducting quarterly property counts, submitting property relocation requests, serving as a property custodian, and submitting maintenance requests as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum: Associate’s degree in accounting and one year of work-related experience.
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in accounting and two or more years of work-related experience.
• Sound working knowledge of accounting principles and practices.
• Good organizational skills and ability to work with detailed information.
• Excellent math skills with rapid and accurate arithmetic computations.
• Proficient in the use of personal computers and working knowledge of software applications such as MS Excel, MS Word, and Outlook.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including technical communication.