Accounting Clerk

ASM Global • New Orleans, LA

7d

About The Position

The Accounting Clerk performs bookkeeping, cashiering, reconciliation, reporting, and financial close duties. The role maintains petty cash, receipt records, and the check release register; audits receipts and disbursements for public shows; and resolves credit card chargebacks. The clerk completes assigned monthly close sections by established deadlines and assists with financial statements, audit schedules, public show statements, and city amusement tax returns.

Additional duties include reconciling agency fund cash accounts and American Express activity, preparing daily cash reports, recording journal entries in the financial reporting system, maintaining agency funds on the mainframe computer, and keeping files. The clerk communicates daily with the Director of Finance about project status, workload, and departmental concerns, and performs other assigned duties.

Responsibilities

• Maintains petty cash, receipt records, and the check release register.
• Audits receipts and disbursements for public shows and resolves credit card chargebacks.
• Completes assigned sections of the monthly close by the specified deadline.
• Assists in preparing financial statements and prepares monthly reconciliations of agency fund cash accounts and select operating duties.
• Maintains files and performs minor bookkeeping and cashiering duties.
• Performs American Express reconciliations and handles cash receipts.
• Assists in preparing public show statements and city amusement tax returns.
• Assists in maintaining agency funds on the mainframe computer.
• Communicates daily with the Director of Finance regarding project status, workload, and departmental concerns.
• Assists in preparing audit schedules.
• Prepares daily cash reports on a timely basis.
• Inputs journal entries into the financial reporting computer system.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed