Accountant - VA Austin
Posted 2025-04-06To be considered for this role, the candidate must have 5-8 years of accounting experience.2-5 years of experience accounting for federal dollars is required. Must have a Bachelor's degree with 24 credit hours in Accounting with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. This will need to be proven with unofficial college transcripts.
This is a federal role therefore you must be a US Citizen to apply as you will be given a federal clearance.
 While this position is remote we would prefer candidates come from Texas, Indiana, Ohio, Atlanta, or the DC area*
Responsibilities
 Reviews, reconciles, and processes appropriate transactions. Researches and resolves all reconciliation inquiries. Reviews and reconciles all monthly reports. This will include receivables, advances, suspense, undelivered orders, payables, and fixed assets
 Determines the nature of errors, and upon receiving approval makes adjustments in the correct appropriation
 Identifies and resolves accounting transactions creating out of balance conditions
 Researches transactions and erroneous adjustments to isolate the original error and corrects it
 Accomplishes daily and monthly reconciliation of the general ledger to subsidiary accounts, accruals, adjusting journal entries, accounting reports and special reports. Reconciles accounting system output with input for accuracy
 Examines vouchers, invoices, claims, and other requests for payment for goods and services provided to, by the client, or for reimbursement of expenditures for travel and transportation for accuracy, adequacy of documentation or citations, compliance with regulations, and justification
 Recommends the proper appropriation to be charged and expenditures made are incurred only as specifically authorized. This entails making payments, answering payment related phone calls, researching payment inquiries for the stations, working with vendorizing section to establish vendor id's, etc
 Prepares bills of collection for over-payments or payments to the wrong vendor
 Prepares refund payments for debts having been overpaid. Inputs and maintains fiscal data entered into an automated financial system. Corrects rejects and processes payments. Accesses computer data bases to look up payment history information
 Researches documents received in error. Maintains computerized general ledgers and related accounts, subsidiary ledgers, financial transaction documents and other related documents for the accounting system
 Validates data using well-established accounting principles and practices
 Analyzes documents for accuracy and authorization, documents financial transactions to ensure a proper audit trail and assigns accounting transactions having the proper accounting effect
 Render technical advice relating to all phases of accounting, internal control, budget and fiscal matters. Develop through analysis, appropriate systems of accounting for initial and unusual circumstances
 Reviews suspense transactions for the collection of debts processed through payroll deduction, recommends proper accounting treatment, and processes transactions to record the transaction to the appropriate station and accounting record
 Identifies accounting problems, inaccurate records and reports, improper methods for document control, and lack of documentary evidence to support performance of reconciliations
Qualifications
 Professional knowledge of accounting theories, practices, methods and techniques to independently perform a variety of assignments
 Knowledge of business and accounting practices, policies, regulations, and procedures and accounting systems to relate to the needs of the agency
 Requires knowledge of a wide variety of interrelated steps, conditions and procedures or accounting processes; knowledge of a variety of accounting and budget functional areas and their relationships to other functions; and knowledge of automated accounting and budget systems
 Ability to deal tactfully with other employees to implement revised policies and procedures, to discuss changes relating to the automated accounting system and/or to coordinate necessary training in connection with revised operations or system changes
 Ability to write correspondence to convey information relating to accounting processes and issues
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