Senior Accounting Specialist

Position Definition:  The Senior Accounting Specialist shall be responsible for overseeing accounting operations, preparing financial statements, providing accounting support and analysis, assisting with the budget process, internal and external audits, billing functions, and financial reporting for the Intermediate Unit.

Relationship:The Senior Accounting Specialist shall be responsible to the Director of Business Services.

Qualifications: 

           Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or other Operational/Business related field required.
• Relevant professional experience in accounting, budget analysis, and/or fund accounting strongly preferred.
• Experience working with financial reporting, reconciliations, and budget monitoring preferred.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and accounting software required.
• Experience in school business operations or governmental fund accounting preferred.

Skills/Knowledge:

• Demonstrates knowledge of fund accounting.
• Demonstrates mastery with financial and numeric data.
• Demonstrates advanced proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite and accounting software.
• Demonstrates the advanced ability to work collaboratively with external and internal stakeholders.
• Demonstrates the ability to maintain complete confidentiality.
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills, demonstrated by patience, understanding, and congeniality.
• Demonstrates excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates organizational and time management skills in carrying out all duties, tasks, and responsibilities with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrates the ability to prioritize assigned tasks.
• Demonstrates attention to detail and accuracy to use reasonable judgment for estimates if defined elements are not known.
• Demonstrates the ability to work independently and maintain departmental deadlines.
• Demonstrates the ability to make professional decisions.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Demonstrates skills to provide the highest level of customer service, with patience and knowledge of the department's services.
• Ability to attend work regularly at assigned work hours subject to lawful leave rights and responsibilities.

Physical:

• Ability to stand, bend, stoop, sit, lift, reach, communicate (vision, hearing, and speech), and carry or convey sufficient weight to safely and effectively carry out functions, duties, and responsibilities.
• Ability to independently ambulate in and around work locations.
• Ability to travel to and from assigned work locations without employer support.
• Ability to travel in and drive a CLIU #21 vehicle.

• Ability to exhibit appropriate manual dexterity to effectively carry out functions, duties, and responsibilities.

   

Authority:  The Senior Accounting Specialist will have the authority to perform all functions listed below, in accordance with established policies and procedures.

Functions/Duties/Responsibilities:  To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function/duty/responsibility at acceptable standards. In accordance with both state and/or federal law, reasonable accommodations will be considered upon employee request.

Essential:

• Applies knowledge and understanding of business, fiscal, and accounting practices in the development and application of Business Office protocols, procedures, and internal controls.
• Supports all accounting operations of the Business Office.
• Coordinates budget development, reviews, monitors and provides reporting of identified grants.
• Assists with Intermediate Unit financial schedules, including payroll reconciliations, for the annual CLIU financial audit.
• Assists with the Final Expenditure Reports for federal and state grants.
• Prepares quarterly ca