Senior Accounting Technician

About the role

The Senior Accounting Technician position at CGS involves managing accounts payable, reimbursement activity, collections, and account oversight. This role supports the mission of a large federal agency and requires a combination of manual and automated accounting systems.

Responsibilities

• Adjust payroll/labor transactions via re-org processing
• Process federal government travel in accordance with policies and regulations
• Verify, analyze, and maintain financial information used by the DOJ Office of the Comptroller
• Use various electronic software and databases, such as UFMS, JEDI and JEDI-2, SAFARI, E-2, and SAMS.gov, to analyze complex data sets
• Record and retrieve financial data using various software packages, databases, and online resources
• Track expenditures of multiple accounts using a financial management system
• Generate reconciliation reports from a financial management system and reconcile financial books/reports weekly
• Prepare financial reports and documentation for review and signature by the DOJ Office of the Comptroller
• Aid and support other sections of DOJ in UFMS transaction processing and resolve system errors
• Compose memorandums, letters, and other correspondence as needed
• Manage databases, maintain office files, route paperwork, schedule meetings, prepare meeting rooms, and assist with web conferences
• Contribute to team efforts as needed

Qualifications

• Two-year degree in accounting or four-year degree in a related field (finance, business, banking, or economics) with 30 credit hours in accounting
• Knowledge of manual and automated accounting systems used by banking, financial, and other institutions
• Experience working with commitments, obligations, and interagency reimbursement agreements
• Experience with the quarterly review, accrual, and closeout process
• Ability to provide analysis and technical support for a variety of financial activities
• Ability to identify and analyze changes in budgetary and/or financial activities
• Ability to research and analyze financial data
• US Citizenship
• Public Trust Clearance (ideally)
• UFSM, JEDI, SAFARI, E-2, and Excel proficiency
• Budgeting cycle management
• Accounts payable (A/P) and accounts receivable (A/R) management and processing
• Reimbursable agreements analysis and management
• Obligations processing and committed funds tracking
• Cash flow analysis
• Statistical analysis
• Financial fraud-related research
• Electronic data acquisition and processing
• Systems analysis and administration
• Database user support
• Reporting
• Record management
• Business legal compliance
• Special projects
• Analytical and critical thinking, time management, and organization
• Excel proficiency with skills to include various formatting, sorting, and correction of data, and table manipulations, such as: Table array, Sum function, Max min function, Vlookup, Trim, Pivot table, Arithmetical formulas

Skills

• Adjust payroll/labor transactions via re-org processing
• Process federal government travel in accordance with policies and regulations
• Verify, analyze, and maintain financial information used by the DOJ Office of the Comptroller
• Use various electronic software and databases, such as UFMS, JEDI and JEDI-2, SAFARI, E-2, and SAMS.gov, to analyze complex data sets
• Record and retrieve financial data using various software packages, databases, and online resources
• Track expenditures of multiple accounts using a financial management system
• Generate reconciliation reports from a financial management system and reconcile financial books/reports weekly
• Prepare financial reports and documentation for review and signature by the DOJ Office of the Comptroller
• Aid and support other sections of DOJ in UFMS transaction processing and resolve system errors
• Compose memorandums, letters, and other correspondence as needed
• Manage databases, maintain office files, route paperwork, schedule meetings, prepare meeting rooms, and assist with web conferences
• Contribute to team efforts as needed