Technician, Accounting

About the role

Austin Community College is seeking a Technician, Accounting to perform various technical accounting activities as assigned and provide assistance to other members of the Business Services team.

Responsibilities

• Assists staff, students and vendors with accounting related issues.
• Works with sponsorship letters and purchase orders that are received via fax, interoffice, email or mail.
• Prepares the employee voucher, exemption and waiver reports.
• Promptly processes the employee vouchers.
• Gathers data to develop, verify and edit various accounting reports.
• Prepares, analyzes, and compiles worksheets, balances, and accounts.
• Processes billings for sponsors, auxiliary accounts, and verifies sponsor agreements, waivers, and exemptions.
• Researches banking or billing transactions for accuracy utilizing on-line resources to resolve discrepancies.
• Performs reconciliation activities by monitoring accounts, preparing and processing journal entries to clear reconciling items.
• Audits invoices for accuracy.
• Serves as a liaison with vendors, internal and external business partners, and other stakeholders.
• Researches inquiries about invoices, general ledger entries, or other matters.
• Auxiliaries with audits and special projects as required.
• Participates in closing the books on a monthly and annual basis.
• Scans, e-files, and retrieves documents in the records management system.
• May train other staff members and test accounting software.
• Aids in Treasury-related tasks and provides cash position updates.
• Processes transactions from various funding sources using file uploads into Colleague, Workday, and other repositories.
• Coordinates and executes financial transactions and activities, such as bill payment, invoicing, payroll, etc.
• Liaises with and responds to inquiries from business partners, customers, or other stakeholders.
• Aid in the audit process by providing information and data as requested.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Two years related work experience.
• High School Diploma preferred with an Associate degree or higher in Accounting or Business with accounting coursework.

Skills

• Maintaining an established work schedule.
• Interacting with stakeholders using effective interpersonal and verbal communications skills.
• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Analytical, planning, organizational, and time management skills.
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Uses critical thinking skills to resolve problems and identify workable solutions.
• Flexibility to adapt to new deadlines, changing schedules, priorities, and unpredictable events.
• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
• Uses automated financial systems.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$50,309 - $60,260

Schedule

Not specified.

Benefits

Not specified.

Clery Act

If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting. Austin Community College produces an Annual Security Report as required by the Clery Act. This report includes statistics from the previous three years concerning reported crime that occurred on campus; public property adjacent to and accessible from campus; and in certain non-campus buildings/property owned or controlled by ACC. The report includes institutional policies concerning campus security and other safety information. For direct access to the current Annual Security Report, visit www.austincc.edu/asr . You may obtain a hard copy by contacting the Clery Compliance Officer ( CleryComplianceOfficer@austincc.edu ). For an overview, see ACC's Clery Act website.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.