Accountant I (Banking)

Palmetto GBA•Columbia, SC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for entry level accounting activities relating to the maintenance of a complete and accurate general ledger and/or the resultant managerial reports and/or financial statements. This position is with Palmetto GBA, a subsidiary of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. The role involves completing journal entries, analyzing balances, account payables, bank reconciliations, researching data, and identifying and resolving variances. Responsibilities include reconciliation of incoming and outgoing payments, ensuring compliance with regulations, and meeting reporting needs accurately and timely.

Requirements

Bachelor's in a job-related field with 24 semester hours in accounting.
Knowledge of fundamental accounting concepts, practices and procedures.
Good communication, organizational, customer service, and analytical skills.
Ability to work independently.
Ability to handle confidential or sensitive information with discretion.
Microsoft Office.
Ability to use data retrieval applications.

Nice To Haves

Strong MS Excel skills with ability to write queries using database software.
Banking experience
2+ years of accounting experience.

Responsibilities

Reconciles assigned accounts.
Initiates and/or processes general ledger, and/or journal entries into various accounts.
Prepare spreadsheets and/or ensures that entries are entered into the accounting system.
Assist coworkers in preparation and/or review of daily activity, monthly, quarterly and/or annual filings as required by regulatory agencies and/or internal requirements, as well as entries made to various systems.
Prepares reports for financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, trending, and/or results analysis to ensure transactions in the ledger tie to statistical files and/or various financial reports.
Performs analysis of financial data to identify problem areas and/or report to management.
Maintains accurate general ledger (G/L) accounts.
Performs monthly, weekly and/or daily reconciliations.
May assist with special projects as assigned by the manager to include coordination between areas, allocation of resources, formulating solutions to problems, providing timely feedback to the manager and/or developing and/or implementing job procedures/controls in accordance with policies.