Fiscal Analyst

Beaufort County South Carolina•Beaufort, SC

About The Position

The purpose of this position is to manage general ledger reconciliations, expenditure reporting and process refinement. Duties also includes financial reviews and analyses of general ledgers data, systems, statutes, rules, regulations, policies and procedures necessary to ensure the federal and state revenue sources are in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and governmental accounting standards. This class works under general supervision, independently developing work methods and sequences.

Requirements

Requires high school education or GED equivalent.
Over four years and up to and including eight years of accounting, finance, bookkeeping or related experience.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree or education and training equivalent to four years of college education in business, accounting, and/or finance preferred.

Responsibilities

Performs routine, complex to paraprofessional accounting support work according to generally accepted standard accounting principles, established procedures, departmental guidelines and regulatory requirements applicable to the accounts payable function.
Serves as the County travel coordinator, reviewing travel requests and travel reconciliation for adherence to County policy and processing payments to employees.
Add or update vendor information for employees, confirming addresses and payment details are correct and current.
Reconciles monthly bank statements, prepare any necessary journal entries, such as recording interest, service charges or correcting entries to ensure the bank statement ending balance agrees with the General Ledger.
Ensures the maintenance of proper audit trails and verification and reconciliation actions for all processed work.
Provides support for Purchasing Card Administrator as needed for all functions for the County credit card.
Prepare monthly Purchase Card statement for payment process.
Performs posting, data entry, and maintenance tasks relevant to account payable, e.g., various general ledger accounts, invoices, accounting records and reports.
Prepares journal entries for postage, corrections to general ledger, etc.
Create and transmit Accounts Payables/Payroll electronic file transfers and positive pay files to the bank after each check run processed by the Finance Department.
Maintains, updates and reconciles various logs, ledgers, files, databases, and spreadsheets.
Assists in the Beaufort County’s annual audit of financial records.
Assists with handling cash receipts, daily deposits, and inquiries from the public regarding various County services.
Responds to customer questions and complaints, performing necessary research and review to provide resolution.
Issues stop payments on checks, view account information, research exceptions, perform ACH deletes and reversals, print e-statements through County’s online banking portal.
Performs general clerical tasks such as answering telephone calls, making copies, sending/receiving faxes, sending/receiving emails, etc.
Submits unclaimed checks to the Department of State.
Performs related work as assigned.