FT Staff Accountant
About The Position
The Staff Accountant performs a variety of professional accounting and financial support functions to assist in the daily operations of the College’s Business Office. Responsibilities include maintaining financial records, preparing and reconciling accounts, processing financial transactions, and assisting with financial reporting. This position helps ensure the accuracy and integrity of accounting data while supporting compliance with applicable federal, state, and institutional policies and procedures. The Staff Accountant works collaboratively with departments across the College to support efficient financial operations and provide excellent internal service.
Requirements
- Associate’s degree in accounting, business, or related field.
- One to three years of professional accounting experience.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as procedural manuals, policies, and guidance provided by outside sources.
- Ability to write routine correspondences.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the College.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiple, and divide all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts and interest.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Word and Excel.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business, or related field.
- Three or more years of accounting experience, preferably in a governmental, higher education, or nonprofit environment with experience in general ledger accounting, account reconciliations, financial reporting, and budget monitoring.
- Proficiency in the use of Colleague, as well as, Microsoft Word and Excel.
Responsibilities
- Monitors outstanding checks and administers the unclaimed property (escheat) process in compliance with applicable federal, state, and institutional regulations.
- Performs monthly reconciliations for all petty cash funds to ensure accuracy and proper documentation.
- Reviews P-Card transactions to identify taxable purchases and calculates, accrues, and reports sales and use tax owed to the North Carolina Department of Revenue.
- Prepares and submits monthly sales and use tax reports in accordance with regulatory requirements.
- Performs fund balance reconciliations to ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial records.
- Monitors state, county, and institutional budgets in collaboration with departments.
- Processes budget transfers, expenditure recodes, and other journal entries as needed to maintain accurate financial records.
- Monitors encumbrances and collaborates with departments on a monthly basis to project anticipated expenditures, maintaining comprehensive budget analyses to support year-end forecasting.
- Verifies daily bank account activity, including wires and drafts, and records transactions appropriately or notifies the appropriate Business Office personnel of the verified transaction(s).
- Assists in ensuring the accuracy of budget balances at month-end through validation against budget reports and system-generated data.
- Reviews accounts payable and payroll processing to ensure accuracy and proper coding.
- Serves as backup for daily deposit functions as needed.
- Performs other related duties within the Business Office as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
