The Staff Accountant will provide support in the responsibilities of the Accounting Department, including full cycle accounting, maintaining, and controlling the General Ledger accounts and business transactions. The Staff Accountant should understand and support the project billing process from start to finish.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assists in the completion of month-end and year-end closing, preparing monthly financial reports and budget variance to ensure accurate & timely period closing.
- Performs general accounts analysis and reconciliations.
- Process expense allocations, monthly accruals, amortization of prepaid expenses, fixed assets depreciation and prepare adjusts and reclassification journal entries.
- Supports collection process to maintain cash liquidity
- Assist in the accurate monthly G/L reconciliations, in compliance with company guidelines.
- Evaluate reporting requirements to ensure systems meet operating guidelines and regulatory standards.
- Responsible for setting up projects in accounting system.
- Prepare draft invoices for project managers/directors.
- Assist in processing and preparing final client invoice packages.
- Follow-up with Project Managers on unbilled issues to optimize the billing possibilities for the billing period.
- Recommend and implement agreed process improvements to the billing cycle.
- Assist Project Managers with project cost analysis.
- Becomes the subject matter expert of the Deltek Vision software, as well as train others to get everyone on board with new projects and ideas
- Adheres to quality control measures, such as checking the accuracy of data before proceeding to other tasks in the process.
- Communicate problems, discrepancies, errors, unclear instructions, and other task-related issues to immediate superior.
- Attains the required project outputs set by management.
- Ensures that all relevant documents, forms, and records are properly and completely filled- up.
- Works with Managers on unbilled issues to optimize the billing possibilities for the billing period
- Evaluates reporting requirements to ensure systems meet operating guidelines.
- Establishes and implements a development plan for team members that may include training and coaching, and other development strategies.
- Ensures compliance to company rules and regulations.
- Ensures compliance of all Non-Conformity Corrective Action Preventive Action Concessions (NCAPACs) and all other audit findings within the prescribed period.
- Performs other tasks that may be assigned from time to time.