Accounting Clerk-BKN at Career Systems Development Corporation – Brooklyn, New York

Job Summary: Performs a variety of professional accounting duties such as preparing expenditure reports, verifying various personnel, equipment, supply expenditures and makes journal entries to correct information and adjust according to financial reports.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Must model the Company Core Values and the operating principles at all times.
• Must create and sustain positive working relationships with co-workers.
• Assists students in adjusting to Center life to enhance student retention by providing supervision, behavior modification, counseling, and by acting as a positive role model and mentor.
• Ensures that student needs are met in a timely professional manner with the highest degree of customer service in mind.
• Adheres to all PRH and CSDC policies and procedures, and the Center Operating Procedures.
• Prepares reports and forms and documents in CIS case notes and files observations of student’s behavior, performance, notable information or events, and progress towards achieving goals and objectives.
• Maintains confidentiality but reports significant events or situations immediately through approved channels to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of students and staff, and to ensure that required reporting occurs, and that students receive emergency services as needed.
• Facilitates prompt and appropriate assistance to students in the event of injury, illness, or emotional trauma.
• Demonstrates and abides by the Company Core Values and the operating principles.
• Sets up work sheets for analyzing selected basic financial reports and prepares related journal entries when needed.
• Processes vendor invoices by comparing invoice amount with authorized purchase order and receiving information. Prepares expenditures reports. Checks invoice activity against accounting ledger.
• Checks purchase orders status reports for outstanding and unpaid purchase orders.
• Assists with processing student pay. Coordinates and distributes Personal Allowances and Transition Allowances and other student payments. Reconciles student payroll. Coordinates SPAMIS system with Records Department.
• Assists in quarterly physical inventory counts as required.
• Calculates hours on timecards for to enter into Payroll section of Transaction Input System.
• Distributes employee paychecks to department supervisors.
• Attends required staff training sessions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum: High school graduate or equivalent. Two years’ experience in a bookkeeping capacity working under the direction of an accountant or work-related area.

Preferred: Associates’ degree in accounting.

Knowledge: Must possess knowledge of accounting applications necessary for preparation of journal entries. Sound working knowledge of bookkeeping theories and practices and accepted office practices. Ability to prepare financial and other reports, in a systematic, neat and legible manner. Good organizational skills. Excellent math skills. Ability to make arithmetic computations rapidly and accurately. Proficient in the use of personal computer; working knowledge of software applications, e.g. MSExcel; MSWord; Outlook. Ability to operate calculator by touch.

Physical Requirements:

Frequently

Sitting

Seeing

Hearing

Speaking

Occasionally

Standing

Walking

Bending

Stooping

Squatting

Flexibility

Seldom

Climbing

Lifting 50 pounds

Carrying

Kneeling

Pushing/Pulling

Running

Driving

Environmental Demands:

Equipment: Ability to operate office equipment

Work Alone: Occasionally works alone

Work With Others: 85% of time spent working and interacting with team and other departments

Reading: Ability to read at a college level

Writing: Ability to write at a college level