Staff Accountant - Abacus Service Corporation

Job title: Staff Accountant


Positions Needed: 1
Job Location: 2600 Woodbridge Avenue, Edison, NJ 08837 (Middlesex College)
Work schedule : Full Time, 40 hours per week
on-site 5 days a week, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. - position will last until December 31, 2024



Job Description:
Performs administrative work maintaining the college's financial records regarding all funds in the general ledger, including but not limited to operating, capital, agency, and grant funds.


SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential Functions:
1. Provides timely reports and analysis for internal and external users.
2. Assists in preparing bank reconciliations on a monthly basis and conducts searches for unrecorded events and irregularities.
3. Prepares General Ledger reconciliation.
4. Prepares adjusting journal entries for year-end and reconciliations.
5. Compiles documentation for external auditors and provides backup support in preparing annual financial statements such as report schedules and lead sheets.
6. Generates monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial reports for all internal and external funds.
7. Assists in all State of New Jersey escheat procedures, including Payroll, Accounts Payable, and Student Accounts, to ensure compliance with all rules and regulations.
8. Assists in the preparation of information for third-party entities.
9. Prepares unclaimed property submission to the State of NJ as required.
10. Performs other related work as required.

PREFFERED REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting;
• Three year's experience in higher education fund accounting or finance department;
• Or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and/or training that provides the required knowledge and abilities.
• Advanced Excel skills;

• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles;

Staff Accountant

• " Strong analytical skills, organizational skills, interpersonal skills, and be self-motivated;
• " Knowledge of Colleague.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The work is sedentary work which requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Hearing 1: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Talking 1: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual Acuity 1: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing