Remote Senior Accounting Consultant
Warbird Consulting Partners, LLC is an Atlanta-based accounting and management consulting firm. We specialize in assisting diverse industry clients to improve performance, comply with complex regulations, reduce costs, recover from distress, leverage technology, and stimulate growth. Warbird is currently seeking a consultant for an exciting opportunity with one of our government clients.
This is a federal role therefore candidates must be a US Citizen to apply as a background investigation will be conducted in order to grant you federal clearance. The minimum experience and educational requirements to be considered for this role are eight (8) years of accounting experience and four (4) years of Federal experience and experiences with ERP/financial system, MS Excel/Access and the ability to write SQL queries. Candidates must also hold a Bachelor’s degree with 24 credit hours in Accounting with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. This will need to be proven with unofficial college transcripts. The annual salary range for this position is $80,000 to $85,000 based on experience.
Responsibilities
- Review, reconcile, and process appropriate transactions.
- Research and resolve all Treasury reconciliation inquiries.
- Review and reconcile all monthly reports for the stations serviced by the FSC. This will include receivables, advances, suspense, undelivered orders, payables, and fixed assets. Determine the nature of errors, and upon receiving approval, make adjustments in the correct appropriation.
- Identify and resolve accounting transactions creating out of balance conditions.
- Research transactions and erroneous adjustments to isolate the original error and corrects it.
- Accomplish daily and monthly reconciliation of the general ledger to subsidiary accounts, accruals, adjusting journal entries, accounting reports and special reports.
- Reconcile accounting system output with input for accuracy.
- Examine vouchers, invoices, claims, and other requests for payment for goods and services provided to, by the Government, or for reimbursement of expenditures for travel and transportation for accuracy, adequacy of documentation or citations, compliance with regulations, and justification. Procedures will be provided for the work described in this bullet.
- As authorized, assist FSC in the process of making payments, answering payment related phone calls, researching payment inquiries for the stations, working with the FSC vendorizing team to establish vendor id's, etc. Procedures will be provided for the work described in this bullet.
- Prepare bills of collection for overpayments to vendors or payments accidently sent to incorrect vendor. Procedures will be provided for the work described in this bullet.
- Prepare refund payments for debts having been overpaid.
- Input and maintain fiscal data entered into an automated financial system.
- Correct rejects and process payments.
- Access computer data bases to look up payment history information.
- Research documents received in error.
- Maintain computerized general ledgers and related accounts, subsidiary ledgers, financial transaction documents and other related documents for the accounting system.
- Validate data using well-established accounting principles and practices.
- Analyze documents for accuracy and authorization, documents financial transactions to ensure a proper audit trail and assigns accounting transactions having the proper accounting effect.
- Render technical support relating to all phases of accounting, internal control, budget, and fiscal matters. The technical support will be in compliance with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76, “Performance of Commercial Activities”, and the Supplement to OMB Circular A-76.
- Develop through analysis, appropriate systems of accounting for initial and unusual circumstances.
- Review suspense transactions for the collection of debts processed through payroll deduction, recommends proper accounting treatment, and processes transactions to record.
Qualifications
- Professional knowledge of accounting theories, practices, methods, and techniques to independently perform a variety of assignments.
- Knowledge of business and accounting practices, policies, regulations, and procedures and accounting systems to relate to the needs of the agency.
- Requires knowledge of a wide variety of interrelated steps, conditions and procedures or accounting processes; knowledge of a variety of accounting and budget functional areas and their relationships to other functions; and knowledge of automated accounting and budget systems.
- Ability to deal tactfully with other employees to implement revised policies and procedures, to discuss changes relating to the automated accounting system and/or to coordinate necessary training in connection with revised operations or system changes.
- Ability to write correspondence to convey information relating to accounting processes and issues.
- Desired experience with government accounting systems preferred but not required, including:
- Financial Management System (FMS)
- Invoice Payment Processing System (IPPS)
- Integrated Funds Distribution Control Point Activity Accounting
- Procurement (IFCAP)
- FASPAC (Intragovernmental Collections/Payments)
Warbird is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, religion or other legally protected status.
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Job Type: Contract
Pay: $80,000.00 - $87,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
- Work from home
Schedule:
Education:
Work Location: Remote