Accounting Services Associate II

Job description

**Job Track Description:** - Performs tasks based on established procedures. - Uses data organizing and coordination skills to perform business support or technical work. - Requires vocational training, certifications, licensures, or equivalent experience. **General Profile** - Expands skills within an analytical or operational process. - Maintains appropriate licenses, training, and certifications. - Applies experience and skills to complete assigned work. - Works within established procedures and practices. - Works with a moderate degree of supervision. **Functional Knowledge** - Developed skillsets in a range of processes, procedures, and systems. **Business Expertise** - Understanding of how teams integrate and work best together to support achievement of company goals. **Impact** - Impacts team through the quality of the services and instruction provided. - Follows standardized procedures and practices. - Works with moderate supervision and guidance. **Leadership** - Has no supervisory responsibilities. - Self-manages workload and timelines. **Problem Solving** - Uses existing procedures to solve standard problems without supervisory approval. **Interpersonal Skills** - Exchanges information and ideas effectively. **Responsibility Statements** - Examines and prepares statutory accounts, financial statements, and reports. - Maintains accounting and financial records, including general ledger, regulatory, and management reports. - Conducts extensive research regarding the impact of financial statements from potential changes to accounting rules. - Develops, implements, and communicates new processes to comply with changing accounting standards. - Provides accounting guidance related to proposed transactions to ensure conformity. - Prepares records, pays vendor invoices, and responds to vendor inquires. - Develops, directs, plans, and evaluates accounts payable policies and procedures. - May process employee expenses reimbursement requests. - Prepares, verifies, and reports accounts payable/receivable transactions. - Prepares analyses and reconciliations of bill runs to detect fraud. - Ensures that transaction entry verification procedures are followed. - May prepare and deliver low-volume customer billing and respond to resulting queries. - May be responsible for low-volume customer billing, including preparation, delivery and responding to resulting queries. - Analyzes capital budget requests. - Creates continuous and sustainable cost reduction or management programs to enhance profitability. - Understands fixed and variable unit expenses and reviews for possible cost-saving opportunities. - Produces expense analyses to understand an organization’s expense base. - Monitors expense control and reduction. - Produces progress reports and presentations for management and external stakeholders. - Ensures all reports and disclosures comply with applicable government regulations, professional and organization policies. - Prepares consolidation journal entries, eliminates inter-company transactions, and consolidates divisional and subsidiary financial accounts. - Conducts or assists in the documentation of accounting projects. - Disburses payroll checks, payroll taxes, and employee benefit payments. - Evaluates current systems to recommend and develop operating efficiency improvements. - Monitors to ensure proper documentation of employee benefit payments. - Prepares payroll expenditure reports. - Performs record keeping and maintenance of shareholder accounts, payment of dividends, and tax reporting. - Responds to shareholder inquiries. - Performs detailed review, design, development and implementation of accounting and documentation systems and procedures. - Coordinates tagging financial statements for regulatory reporting. - Applies standard taxonomies and creates customized taxonomies for financial statements, footnotes, and financial statement schedules. - Reviews and documents XBRL data tagging to ensure consistency and accurate financial reporting. - Performs other duties as assigned. - Complies with all policies and standards.