Junior Accountant

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<li>Assist Accounting Manager with analyses of ongoing financial activity for the Bond Program.</li>
<li>Prepare and/or review vendor files or other supporting documentation for vendor payments.</li>
<li>Conduct regular review and analysis of detailed transactions residing in the Bond program accounting software (Deltek Costpoint).</li>
<li>Assist Accounting Manager in identifying errors and develop innovative approaches to minimize risk of repeat discrepancies.</li>
<li>Develop new reports to help provide transparency into Bond Program expenditures.</li>
<li>Review Bond Program invoices and process approved payables per accounting procedures.</li>
<li>Enter invoice payment requests into program accounting software.</li>
<li>Communicate with applicable construction and professional services vendors as needed.</li>
<li>Identify discrepancies or inconsistencies and resolve expeditiously.</li>
<li>Reconcile financial accounts. Assist in processing of general contractor’s payment analysis.</li>
<li>Analyze monthly accounting reports in order to maintain expenditure controls.</li>
<li>Work directly with outside team members on cost and invoice commitments and expenditure matters.</li>
<li>Prepare and process journal entries.</li>
<li>Work effectively with other department personnel in order to resolve any invoice payment issues and obtain signatures of authorization on invoice matters.</li>
<li>Evaluate and ensure bond compliance in regard to payment requests.</li>
<li>Ability to work independently and in a team environment.</li>
<li>Ability to work in a fast-paced environment  Good communication and presentation skills.</li>
</ul><h2>Requirements</h2><ul>
<li>3 years of accounting work experience.</li>
<li>Bachelor's degree. Additional qualifying experience in excess to the minimum stated above may be substituted for the required education on a year for year basis.</li>
<li>Ability to work with business enterprise software.</li>
<li>Ability to perform historical trend analysis.</li>
<li>Ability to create and analyze reports.</li>
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