Banking Reconciliation Specialist | Accounting & Transaction Operations

Accounting Specialist

Required Education
• High School Diploma or equivalent

Required Skills
• Strong balancing and reconciliation skills
• Ability to research discrepancies and resolve exceptions
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
• Ability to meet daily production goals and SLAs
• Proficient computer navigation skills
• Microsoft Office proficiency
• Microsoft Excel proficiency
• Ability to understand and navigate Excel formulas
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities

Preferred Skills
• Advanced knowledge of bookkeeping practices and principles
• Ability to create basic Excel formulas, including SUMIF and VLOOKUP
• Ability to identify and resolve exceptions and interpret data

Required Experience
• One or more years of relevant accounting, reconciliation, or financial operations experience
• Experience balancing and reconciling accounts or transactions
• Experience researching discrepancies and making corrections or adjustments
• Experience processing and verifying financial or accounting transactions

Preferred Experience
• ATM reconciliation experience
• Banking or financial services experience
• GL upload experience
• Experience processing adjustments, overages, shortages, and clearing outstanding items

Job Duties
• Process transactions and maintain various accounts and ledgers.
• Perform daily balancing and reconciliation activities.
• Research discrepancies and make appropriate corrections or adjustments.
• Process and clear overages and shortages.
• Complete GL uploads.
• Maintain required SLAs and daily production goals.
• Process accounting documents including accounts payable, journal vouchers, vendor invoices, expense reimbursements, statements, and billings.
• Ensure transactions are accurate, complete, and processed on time.
• Respond to and resolve inquiries.
• Post, check, and verify data.
• Run and prepare routine financial reports and analyses.
• Support backlog reduction and ATM conversion activities.

Typical Day The Accounting Specialist will work within a team of approximately 18 employees, primarily based in Minneapolis. The day will consist of researching and reconciling transaction discrepancies, processing adjustments, clearing outstanding items, completing balancing activities, and handling GL uploads. Employees will work toward established SLAs and daily production goals, such as processing approximately 40 overages or shortages, while maintaining a high level of accuracy.