Invoice & Financial Operations Associate Consultant

Turner & Townsend; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend Heery seeks an Associate Consultant Financial Clerk to perform varied clerical accounting operations, posting to journals, reconciling accounts, and supporting centralized financial processes.

Work is performed with a degree of independence under rules and is subject to review by supervisors and audits. On-site duties and client-driven requirements apply, with emphasis on accuracy and timely reporting.

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of various accounting documents and their uses in a billing or accounting system.
• Thorough knowledge of departmental accounting transaction practices and procedures and related laws and regulations.
• Familiarity with data processing billing or accounting systems and their use in the assigned system or sub-system.
• Thorough knowledge of technical accounting and bookkeeping principles, practices, and procedures.
• Intermediate skills with Microsoft Office Suite products such as Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
• Knowledge of Financial software systems (e.g. PeopleSoft, MTA, VAS and I-Track).

Responsibilities

• Posts encumbrances, expenditures, cash receipts, revenues, and disbursements to journals.
• Reconciles and balances accounts.
• Analyzes and evaluates data input and output of a computerized system.
• Examines departmental requests for monies from accounts and confirms the availability of funds.
• Monitors accounts and notifies agency personnel of over expenditures.
• Authorizes disbursements to vendors and/or taxpayers.
• Examines vouchers, claims, invoices, checks and supporting data for conformance with established procedures and regulations.
• Maintains large computer files, database and/or accounting systems.
• Compiles data and prepares financial statements and other statistical and financial reports in accordance with standardized accounting procedures.
• Contacts vendors, departmental personnel, grant recipients and others to obtain and provide information and resolve disagreements.
• May assign, review, approve, supervise and/or train other office support personnel.
• Handles more complex problems referred by lower level office support personnel.
• Performs related work as required.

Skills

Accounting knowledge

Billing procedures

Data processing

Analytical skills

Office equipment

Arithmetic computations

Microsoft Office

Financial software systems

Tools

PeopleSoft

MTA

VAS

I-Track

Job description

Turner & Townsend Heery seeks an Associate Consultant Financial Clerk to perform varied clerical accounting operations, posting to journals, reconciling accounts, and supporting centralized financial processes.

Work is performed with a degree of independence under rules and is subject to review by supervisors and audits. On-site duties and client-driven requirements apply, with emphasis on accuracy and timely reporting.