[Hiring] Senior Accounting Technician @Contact Government Services

Role Description

CGS is seeking a Senior Accounting Technician to join our team supporting the mission of a large federal agency. This position will entail a wide range of duties including management of accounts payable, reimbursement activity, collections, and account oversight.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Adjustment of the payroll/labor transactions via re-org processing.
• Correct and processes federal government travel in accordance with policies and regulations.
• Verify, analyze, and maintain financial information used by the DOJ Office of the Comptroller.
• Use various electronic software and databases, such as UFMS, JEDI and JEDI-2, SAFARI, E-2, and SAMS.gov, to analyze complex data sets.
• Use various software packages, databases, and online resources to record and retrieve financial data, particularly related to reimbursable and billing process.
• Use a financial management system to track expenditures of multiple accounts.
• Generate reconciliation reports from a financial management system and reconcile financial books/reports weekly.
• Prepare financial reports and documentation for review and signature by DOJ Office of the Comptroller Management and numerous other U.S. Government agencies.
• Assist and provide support to other sections of DOJ in UFMS transaction processing and provide suggestion in system errors resolutions.
• Compose memorandums, referencing financial reports and activities, as well as letters to the outside vendors and agencies, as needed.
• Composes and disseminates correspondence, prepares forms and financial documents, manages databases, maintains the office files, routes paperwork, schedules and assists with web conferences, prepares meeting room and office events.
• Performs other duties, either as assigned or on own initiative, that are necessary for regular or special projects undertaken by the division.
• Contributes to team efforts, as needed.

Qualifications

• Two-year degree in accounting or four-year degree in a related field (finance, business, banking, or economics) with 30 credit hours in accounting.
• Knowledge of manual and automated accounting systems used by banking, financial and other institutions.
• Experience working with commitments, obligations, and interagency reimbursement agreements.
• Experience working with the quarterly review, accrual and closeout process.
• Ability to provide analysis and technical support for a variety of financial activities.
• Ability to identify and analyze change in budgetary and/or financial activities.
• Ability to research and analyze financial data.
• Must be a US Citizen upfront.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust Clearance.

Requirements

• UFSM, JEDI, SAFARI, E-2, and Excel proficiency.
• Budgeting Cycle Management.
• Financial Management.
• Accounts payable (A/P) and Accounts receivable (A/R) management and processing.
• Reimbursable agreements analysis and management.
• Obligations processing and committed funds tracking.
• Auditing and accounting services.
• Cash flow analysis.
• Statistical analysis.
• Financial fraud-related research.
• Electronic data acquisition and processing.
• Systems analysis and administration.
• Database user support.
• Reporting.
• Record Management.
• Business legal compliance.
• Special projects.
• Analytical and critical thinking, time management and organization.
• Excel proficiency with skills to include various formatting, sorting, and correction of data, and table manipulations, such as: Table array, Sum function, Max min function, Vlookup, Trim, Pivot table, Arithmetical formulas.

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401k
• Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
• Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays