SUMMARY
The Accounting Manager is responsible for overseeing the Finance/Accounting department and assists with account reconciliations, budgeting, month-end closing and annual audits.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
- Prepares a variety of detailed accounting, statistical, and/or narrative financial statements or reports requiring analysis
- Interprets source data; conducts and/or coordinates internal/external audits of financial records; examines, analyzes, and verifies documents to ensure adherence to established internal controls and agreement as required
- Performs bank account reconciliation's, verifies accuracy of recorded transactions; prepares related work sheets, cash balances, proofs, and other schedules and prepares daily cash flow analysis
- Supervises and reviews the work of fiscal and clerical personnel in making GL entries, reconciliations, and performing other fiscal record keeping work; makes complex or difficult adjusting entries affecting several cost centers
- Performs fund, grant accounting functions; assists with preparation of County, State, and Federal Reports. Prepares daily deposits, maintains cash ledger and completes transfers; assist in budget development, creating revenue and expenditure schedules; prepare cost accounting schedules for fee-based activities; and perform other related duties as required
- Completes month end closing, including account analysis and financial report distribution; participates in the annual closing of books and the preparation of data for the Annual Financial Report
- Assists with the annual audit by responding to questions and providing relevant materials and information; assists in monitoring budgets for various organization's departments and projects
- Determines if funds are available and expenditures/revenues are properly classified; researches and analyzes transactions to resolve budget discrepancies.
- Assists in budget preparation; assists department personnel with budget activity, proper expenditure coding, document preparation and other accounting related activities.
- Monitor daily cash flow needs; makes sure enough funds are available to cover payroll and accounts payable checks. Tracks and post inter-account transfers and all wires both incoming and outgoing; audits investments to ensure that interest has been received and posted to the correct account(s); validates that purchases, discounts and premiums are properly posted to the correct account(s)
- Performs other reasonable related duties as assigned
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
In the course of performing this job, the incumbent typically spends time standing, walking on sloped/hilly areas of campus, carrying, driving, lifting (up to 40 pounds), listening, speaking, reaching, writing, and participating in restraint procedures.