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Accounting Specialist

Tetra Tech · Madison, WI · 1 mo ago
$70k–$100k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment only, with headings

for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use only sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, etc. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Key sections: - Position Summary: "Tetra Tech is hiring an Accounting Specialist for our Madison office. Duties include handling invoices and payments, monitoring and forecasting financial performance, maintaining financial records, and ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations through accurate reporting. Successful Accounting Specialists can work independently and as part of a team, effectively communicating with business leaders, project consultants, and other finance team members. Candidates should be familiar with accounting principles, have experience with Oracle, and be well-organized." - Your Role: long list of duties (Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Financial Management Support, etc.) - Preferred Qualifications: bullet list (Bachelor’s degree, minimum two years experience, etc.) - Starting Annual Salary: $70,000 to $100,000 depending on experience and qualifications - Line Management Responsibility: None (maybe not needed) - Physical Demands & Work Environments: Hybrid office environment (3 days in-office/2 days remote) etc. - What We Can Offer You: Competitive Salary and Benefits, Advanced Career Development Opportunities, Resource Availability, Sustained Excellence and Stable Growth, Hybrid office/remote work. - About Tetra Tech: description. We need to decide which sections to include. We have headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to map content. - About the role: could be the Position Summary paragraph. - Responsibilities: the detailed duties list (Your Role). Could be broken into bullet list. - Requirements: maybe the Preferred Qualifications? Or maybe "Candidates should be familiar..." but we have Qualifications separate. - Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications bullet list. - Skills: maybe the skills like analytical, problem-solving, communication, proficient in Excel and Oracle. - Benefits: What We Can Offer You (competitive salary and benefits, career development, resource availability, sustained excellence, hybrid work). Could be bullet list. - Pay: Starting Annual Salary line. - Schedule: Hybrid office environment (3 days in-office/2 days remote) plus maybe Physical Demands? But schedule is about work schedule. So we can include hybrid office/remote work. We must not create sections with filler like "not specified". So only include if we have content. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. Not needed. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. So we must strip those paragraphs. We must preserve all substantive info; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the details but can format as lists. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. Thus produce something like:

About the role

Tetra Tech is hiring an Accounting Specialist for our Madison office. Duties include handling invoices and payments, monitoring and forecasting financial performance, maintaining financial records, and ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations through accurate reporting. Successful Accounting Specialists can work independently and as part of a team, effectively communicating with business leaders, project consultants, and other finance team members. Candidates should be familiar with accounting principles, have experience with Oracle, and be well-organized.

Responsibilities

  • Accounts Receivable Invoicing and Billing – Generate, review, and send accurate invoices to customers on a monthly schedule
  • Payment Processing – Monitor and verify incoming payments posted in Oracle
  • Collections Management – Monitor ageing reports, follow up on overdue invoices, and communicate with clients to resolve payment delays
  • Reconciliation – Reconcile the accounts receivable ledger to ensure all transactions are accounted for and properly posted
  • Dispute Resolution – Investigate and resolve billing discrepancies or payment disputes with clients
  • Reporting – Prepare reports on delinquent accounts and assist with month-end closing procedures
  • Customer Service – Maintain positive relationships with clients regarding account inquiries
  • Financial Record Maintenance – Maintain financial records and related project documentation
  • Accounts Payable Invoice Processing – Review, code, and process vendor and supplier invoices, matching them with subcontracts and receiving documents
  • Payment Execution – Prepare and execute checks, ACH, or wire transfers, ensuring timely payments
  • Reconciliation – Reconcile vendor statements, research discrepancies, and resolve outstanding issues with internal staff or vendors
  • Expense Management – Review employee expense reports for compliance
  • Vendor Management – Serve as the primary contact for vendor inquiries regarding payment status
  • Financial Management Support – End of Period Closing – Support management with month-end and year-end closing processes
  • Budgeting – Assist managers in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
  • Record keeping – Maintain accurate, organized electronic and paper files for audit compliance
  • Contract Financials – Review financial terms and cost proposals prior to project bids
  • Capacity Planning – Monitor employee utilization forecast and key financial metrics
  • Project Control – Set up and close projects
  • Timecard Control – Monitor employee timecards
  • Other – Provide support for other accounting and finance functions as needed

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field
  • Minimum of two years of accounting experience, with at least 1 year working with Oracle financial systems
  • Strong knowledge of GAAP and financial reporting standards
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Oracle systems
Maybe also Skills section? But we already included skills in qualifications. Could separate Skills: analytical, problem-solving, communication, Excel, Oracle. But we might avoid duplication. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine Qualifications and Skills into one section? But we have headings list; we can choose to include Qualifications and maybe Skills if we have distinct content not covered elsewhere. However the qualifications list already includes skills. So we could omit Skills section to avoid thin. Benefits: we have What We Can Offer You paragraph with bullet points. Let's extract benefits: - Competitive Salary and Benefits – Competitive compensation packages that recognize the value and experience you bring, complemented by a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off. - Advanced Career Development Opportunities – Career development opportunities that align with your aspirations and expertise, including leadership training, advanced certifications, and future opportunities to lead projects. - Resource Availability – Take advantage of the extensive resources and tools available in our organization to support your project work, professional development, and career advancement. - Sustained Excellence and Stable Growth – Tetra Tech has ranked No. 1 in Water in ENR’s “Top 500 Design Firms” for the 20th year in a row. In recent years, our company has continued to expand its reach, diversify its project portfolio, and increase its workforce, demonstrating our stability and the trust our clients place in us. - Hybrid office/remote work – Hybrid office/remote work option that allows our employees to balance quality work and their personal lives. We can put these as
  • ...
under Benefits heading. Pay: Starting Annual Salary: $70,000 to $100,000 depending on experience and qualifications. Schedule: Hybrid office environment (3 days in-office/2 days remote). Also Physical Demands & Work Environments includes hybrid office environment and physical demands. But schedule is about work schedule; we can include hybrid office/remote work. Also maybe mention constant operation of computer etc. But that's not schedule. We'll keep schedule as hybrid office/remote work. We must not include filler like "Line Management Responsibility: None". That's not needed. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, etc. We must not include "About Tetra Tech" maybe could be About the role? But we already used About the role for position summary. The About Tetra Tech paragraph is company description; could be considered "About the role"? Not exactly. But we could include a section "About Tetra Tech" but not in allowed headings. Allowed headings are only those eight. So we should not add extra headings. We could incorporate that info into Benefits or About the role? But About the role is supposed to be about the role, not company. However we could treat About the role as the position summary (which we already have). The company description could be omitted? The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we must keep the company description somewhere. Where can we put it without adding a new heading? Could we put it under Benefits? Not appropriate. Could we put it under About the role? Might be okay to extend About the role to include company overview? But the heading "About the role" suggests role-specific. However we could still put it there as part of the role description? Might be considered adding unrelated info but still preserving. The instruction says "use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It gives examples but not strict that those are the only allowed headings? It says "Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That implies those are the headings we should use; we should not create other headings. So we must fit all substantive info under those headings. Thus we need to place company description somewhere. Perhaps under Benefits? Not ideal but could be considered part of "Benefits" as "Sustained Excellence and Stable Growth" already includes some company info. The About Tetra Tech paragraph is more general. Could we merge it into Benefits as an extra bullet? That would be preserving info. It's not a benefit per se but could be considered "About the company" but we don't have a heading for that. However we could put it under Benefits as a bullet: "Tetra Tech combines the resources of a global, multibillion-dollar company with local, client-focused delivery in more than 470 locations around the world..." etc. That is substantive. Alternatively we could put it under About the role as a preamble: "About the role: Tetra Tech is a global..." but that mixes. Better to put under Benefits as an extra bullet describing the company. We must not create a section with filler. So we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Possibly also Requirements? But we have Qualifications covering requirements. Could we also have Requirements separate? The qualifications list includes requirements; we could treat Qualifications as requirements. But we have both Requirements and Qualifications headings allowed. To avoid thin sections, we could combine them into Qualifications only. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we can omit Requirements if its content is covered elsewhere. We'll keep Qualifications. Skills: we could omit as covered. Thus final sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Now we need to ensure we don't include any boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. We'll strip those paragraphs. Now produce HTML. Check for any repeated lines: Ensure we don't duplicate. Let's craft. About the role paragraph: Use the Position Summary paragraph. Responsibilities: list all duties from "Your Role". We need to ensure we capture all bullet points exactly as given, but we can rephrase slightly

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