Accountant

Job description
Overview:
We are looking for someone who can do accounting and auditing, focusing on U.S. GAAP, financial statement preparation, and account reconciliation, which also include bi-weekly and monthly retirement and payroll reconciliations, daily cash and payroll reconciliations, and weekly deposit reconciliations, along with preparing financial statements, analyses, and grant reports.

Scope of Work:
• Perform professional accounting/auditing work.
• Must understand Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP) and have strong knowledge and experience in financial statement preparation, the monthly and annual close process, and account reconciliation and analysis. Additionally, you must be proficient in using ERP accounting systems and other current technology, including the ability to perform advanced functions in Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, sumif, data sorts, etc.).
• Experience related to governmental accounting (governmental, enterprise, special revenue, internal service, fiduciary funds, capital projects, retiree pension payroll, etc.) is desired but not required.
• Preparing analyses of statements and reports and making recommendations regarding the analyses; preparing records for the disbursement of funds; preparing financial statements and disclosures for the Annual Financial Report and the Single Audit Report; reconciling accounts in preparation of fiscal year-end and grant closings; serving as financial resource person; preparing and analyzing bank reconciliation statements and preparing expenditure or grant reports; and preparing and accounting for retirees' pension payroll along with the associated Maryland State Tax withholding and IRS reporting.

Deliverables
• Bi-weekly and monthly retirement liability reconciliations
• Bi-weekly payroll liability reconciliations
• Weekly JPM Single-Use Account (SUA) weekly reconciliations
• Weekly RecTrac deposit reconciliations
• Daily cash disbursement reconciliations
• Daily payroll reconciliations
• Bi-weekly retiree costing process