Accounting Services Associate 2

Job Track Description:

• Performs tasks based on established procedures.
• Uses data organizing and coordination skills to perform business support or technical work.
• Requires vocational training, certifications, licensures, or equivalent experience.

General Profile

• Expands skills within an analytical or operational process.
• Maintains appropriate licenses, training, and certifications.
• Applies experience and skills to complete assigned work.
• Works within established procedures and practices.
• Works with a moderate degree of supervision.

Functional Knowledge

• Developed skillsets in a range of processes, procedures, and systems.

Business Expertise

• Understanding of how teams integrate and work best together to support achievement of company goals.

Impact

• Impacts team through the quality of the services and instruction provided.
• Follows standardized procedures and practices.
• Works with moderate supervision and guidance.

Leadership

• Has no supervisory responsibilities.
• Self-manages workload and timelines.

Problem Solving

• Uses existing procedures to solve standard problems without supervisory approval.

Interpersonal Skills

• Exchanges information and ideas effectively.

Responsibility Statements

• Examines and prepares statutory accounts, financial statements, and reports.
• Maintains accounting and financial records, including general ledger, regulatory, and management reports.
• Conducts extensive research regarding the impact of financial statements from potential changes to accounting rules.
• Develops, implements, and communicates new processes to comply with changing accounting standards.
• Provides accounting guidance related to proposed transactions to ensure conformity.
• Prepares records, pays vendor invoices, and responds to vendor inquires.
• Develops, directs, plans, and evaluates accounts payable policies and procedures.
• May process employee expenses reimbursement requests.
• Prepares, verifies, and reports accounts payable/receivable transactions.
• Prepares analyses and reconciliations of bill runs to detect fraud.
• Ensures that transaction entry verification procedures are followed.
• May prepare and deliver low-volume customer billing and respond to resulting queries.
• May be responsible for low-volume customer billing, including preparation, delivery and responding to resulting queries.
• Analyzes capital budget requests.
• Creates continuous and sustainable cost reduction or management programs to enhance profitability.
• Understands fixed and variable unit expenses and reviews for possible cost-saving opportunities.
• Produces expense analyses to understand an organization’s expense base.
• Monitors expense control and reduction.
• Produces progress reports and presentations for management and external stakeholders.
• Ensures all reports and disclosures comply with applicable government regulations, professional and organization policies.
• Prepares consolidation journal entries, eliminates inter-company transactions, and consolidates divisional and subsidiary financial accounts.
• Conducts or assists in the documentation of accounting projects.
• Disburses payroll checks, payroll taxes, and employee benefit payments.
• Evaluates current systems to recommend and develop operating efficiency improvements.
• Monitors to ensure proper documentation of employee benefit payments.
• Prepares payroll expenditure reports.
• Performs record keeping and maintenance of shareholder accounts, payment of dividends, and tax reporting.
• Responds to shareholder inquiries.
• Performs detailed review, design, development and implementation of accounting and documentation systems and procedures.
• Coordinates tagging financial statements for regulatory reporting.
• Applies standard taxonomies and creates customized taxonomies for financial statements, footnotes, and financial statement schedules.
• Reviews and documents XBRL data tagging to ensure consistency and accurate financial reporting.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.