- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
- Advanced Excel skills and proficient in Microsoft Office
- Minimum five (5) years of Accounting experience
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally
- Good communication and written skills
- Detail oriented; ability to prioritize and work under time constraints.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Proven ability to work effectively and constructively with persons of diverse cultures, language groups, and abilities; demonstrate sensitivity to and ability to work with the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, faculty, and staff, including those with disabilities; establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
- Audit experience desired.
- Strongly desired CPA, CMA or progress toward certification
- Master’s in Business Administration preferred
- Experience with Fund Accounting
- Bilingual in Spanish and English
- Ensure compliance with State Fiscal rules and legislation, OMB Circulars, GAAP and GASB.
- Prepares the monthly, quarterly, and year-end closings, including audit schedules for various balance sheet P&L accounts.
- Prepares journals when needed for the monthly Procurement card/credit card charges.
- Performs monthly reconciliations for multiple bank accounts encompassing multiple funds, sources of revenue, receipts, expenses, and disbursements, with reconciling entries and making all necessary journal entries as needed.
- Analytical review of all balance sheet P&L accounts reconciliations.
- Prepares and maintains any necessary financial reports including all reports required by Government agencies and audit.
- Prepare Financial complex reports, Schedules and special studied requiring a broad knowledge of principles, practices and precures for internal and external reporting requirements.
- Performs general accounting functions such as researching errors, performing adjustment entries, and monitoring general ledger transactions.
- Prepare and perform Fixed asset management tasks, which include reviewing capitalizing expenses and making all necessary adjustments. It requires periodically communications with Facility managers for the best practice.
- Assist daily Student related financial transactions and work closely with Student account team.
Personnel Management – 10%
- Provide guidance and sound judgements to internal term and external stakeholders such as various level of program managers.
- Assists, prepares and collaborates with team and various departments in performing audit-related tasks, including annual audit and other audit tasks.
- Provide operational support for various back-office systems including, but not limited to Oracle, PeopleSoft, ERP and other in-house systems.
Other – 5%
- Support Accounting projects as needed