Senior Accounting Technician
About the role
The Senior Accounting Technician will manage accounts payable, reimbursement activity, collections, and account oversight. The position involves working with various electronic software and databases, such as UFMS, JEDI, SAFARI, E-2, and SAMS.gov, to analyze complex data sets. Duties also include generating reconciliation reports from a financial management system and reconciling financial books/reports weekly. The role requires preparing financial reports and documentation for review and signature by the DOJ Office of the Comptroller, assisting other sections of DOJ in UFMS transaction processing, and providing support to various government agencies.
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 to analyze complex data sets
- Record and retrieve financial data using various software packages 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
- Compose memorandums, letters to vendors and agencies, and prepare forms and financial documents
- Maintain office files, route paperwork, schedule and assist with web conferences, and prepare meeting room and office events
- Contribute to team efforts as needed
Requirements
- 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 working 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
Qualifications
- 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
- Auditing and accounting services
- 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 to analyze complex data sets
- Record and retrieve financial data using various software packages 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
- Compose memorandums, letters to vendors and agencies, and prepare forms and financial documents
- Maintain office files, route paperwork, schedule and assist with web conferences, and prepare meeting room and office events
- Contribute to team efforts as needed
Benefits
Contact Government Services (CGS) offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) plan, flexible spending accounts (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter), paid time off, and observance of state/federal holidays. Additionally, CGS provides a public trust clearance and a commitment to honesty, professionalism, and quality work.
Pay
Details on pay are not specified in this posting.
Schedule
Details on the schedule are not specified in this posting.