Specialist, Accounting

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Job Title: Specialist, General Ledger Accounting

Job Code: 39392

Job Location: Sacramento, CA (preferred), Canoga Park, CA, Huntsville, AL, or Melbourne, FL  

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Specialist, General Ledger Accounting will report to the Senior Manager, General Leger Accounting and will be part of the team responsible for providing rapid and high-quality financial information. This position addresses a multitude of accounting activities including monthly general ledger and overhead closings, balance sheet and income statement flux analysis, quarterly review and year-end audit preparation and SOX process narratives and walk-throughs under tight close and reporting deadlines.

Essential Functions:

• Supporting monthly financial close and reporting, including:
  • Preparing monthly journal entries, including entries related to leasing activities, rent, deferred cost, disallowance reserves, IT accruals and various cost reclassifications.
  • Continuous review and disposition of postings to the Accounts Payable (AP ) clearing account.  This requires pulling current payment registers from CFIN and postings to our general ledger to timely identify the invoices that are posted to our AP clearing account and need to be redirected to Interdivisional invoices to non-Oracle divisions, to Project Accounting for cost adjustments or internally processed via journal entry and/or PAEB by the GL team.
  • Processing monthly PAEBs (manual cost adjustments) for recurring items including, lease expense and severance or retention payments.
  • Processing (manual cost adjustments) for non-recurring charges, including those that post incorrectly into our ledger from CFIN or Concur interfaces.  This may require collaboration with the Project Accounting team and others within Finance to properly and timely resolve.
  • Preparing month-end accruals, including accruals for interfaces that
  • Preparing account reconciliations, including verifying that reconciling items are timely investigated and resolved.
  • Preparing monthly and quarterly reporting corporate supplementary schedules.
  • Preparing variance analysis as requested by management to support quarterly analytical reviews and/or monthly financial reviews.
• Supporting the accounting control environment, by:
  • Preparing and providing support of audit requests for external, internal and DCAA audits
  • Evaluating SOX process documentation and supporting the annual SOX walkthrough and testing efforts.
  • Recommending and implementing continuous process improvements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• General ledger accounting (preparing journal entries and account reconciliations).
• Financial analysis (i.e. – account and variance analysis).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Independent, self-motivated individual with strong organization skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Ability to effectively communicate with various levels of personnel and to work in a team environment.
• Ability to make decisions and exercise some independent action in the completion of job duties
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