Accountant; Community Member Underfill

Position: Accountant (Community Member Eligible for Underfill)

** IF YOU PREVIOUSLY APPLIED FOR THIS POSITION, YOU DO NOT NEED TO RE-SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION**

Position Summary: Under general supervision from the Accounting Manager, Accounting Supervisor and/or Senior Accountant, analyzes a variety of accounting transactions to ensure that they are carried out in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for governmental accounting that meets the objectives of the Community. This Job Class is treated as FLSA Exempt.

Essential Functions: (Essential functions, but may include the following tasks, knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics. This list of tasks is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of tasks performed by all positions in this classification.)

Reviews and analyzes a variety of accounting transactions involving State, Federal, Community funded programs and other funding sources. Ensures transactions are recorded properly, are debited/credited to the appropriate source/program and comply with generally accepted accounting principles for governmental accounting.

• Reviews monthly budget reports for appropriate expenditures and spending levels. Communicate budget deficiencies and issues to Compliance team to address with program directors/managers.
• Monitors daily banking activity, reviews and analyzes all monies received and ensures posting to proper accounts. Create correcting cash entries as needed.

• Review and apply federal guidelines and references as noted in the project administration guidance checklist submitted by the Compliance team for each grant or contract.
• Prepares reimbursement requests and submits to the Accounting Manager for approval and processing.
• Prepares financial reports for grant, contract, and other funding sources. Due dates and reporting requirements are entered into the accounting system by the Grant Compliance team

2. Creates recurring journal entries in accordance financial closing schedule and deadlines using the standard journal entry upload template.

• Prepares recurring and manual journal entries across multiple business units.

• Provides and validates supporting documentation to substantiate journal entry.
• Ensures supporting and backup documentation are complete and straightforward.

3. Prepares monthly account reconciliations across multiple business units using SRPMIC standard format and reports discrepancies to Accounting Manager for proper resolution.

• Validates the general ledger and sub ledgers are reconciled with resolution to outstanding items monthly.
• Perform variance analysis of P&L transactions, including sample of transactions for appropriateness.
• Researches and resolves outstanding reconciling items in a timely manner.

• Creates adjustment journal entries required to correct balances of general ledger accounts
• Identifies and reports any discrepancies to Accounting Manager for proper resolution if needed.

4. Manage purchasing card transactions through external credit card management system.

• Reviews and batch assigned purchasing card transactions.
• Identifies and communicates incorrect account string used by cardholder or proxy.
• Creates adjustment journal entries to correct coding errors.

5. Gathers and prepares data and documents for a variety of financial reports. Maintains appropriately filed documents for easy retrieval, report processing and for audit purposes
6. Provides assistance to Finance management team with respect to various accounting or special projects.

7. Consistently supports compliance with SRPMIC Policies and Procedures by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, accreditation and licenser requirements (if applicable).8. Performs other job-related duties as assigned to maintain and enhance departmental operation.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics:

• Knowledge of the culture, customs, traditions, history and government of the Salt River Pima
  - Maricopa Indian Community.
• Knowledge of general accounting, auditing, and budgeting principles and practices.
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