Accountant

Position Summary:

• Responsible for the College's accounting functions such as advanced monthly and annual financial processes, accuracy of the general ledger, and managing the financial reports.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Include:

• Coordinates and finalizes daily, monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial processes, and prepares detailed financial reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Prepares comprehensive presentations on financial data for the Vice President of Financial Affairs to present to the College's leadership and other relevant entities.
• Assists various departments in formulating their annual budgets, analyze financial data and suggest budget adjustments.
• Ensures the integrity and accuracy of monthly journal entries to the general and statistical ledgers.
• Coordinates and finalizes College’s audit and working papers and provides guidance for the College Foundation audit.
• Tracks and maintains compliance records for state capital projects.
• Tracks fixed assets, completes bank reconciliations, and various financial processes.
• Identifies and implements process improvements.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Program Area Responsibilities (as applicable):N/A

Education and/or Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required.
• A minimum of 2-3 years of progressive accounting experience.
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles, standards, and regulations, with a background in government and nonprofit accounting principles and practices being preferred.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Dedicated team member with the ability to adapt.
• Strong attention to detail skills.
• Ability to perform duties independently and act as a self-starter.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and various software programs.
• Demonstrated ability to work with a diverse group of people.
• Effectively communicate one-on-one and in small groups.
• Effective problem-solving skills.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations (as applicable):

• CPA certification preferred.

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Statement of Commitment:

As part of Terra State Community College’s ongoing commitment in providing the highest quality education and training to our students, faculty, staff and community, the College will:

• Educate students by means of free, open, and rigorous intellectual inquiry to seek the truth.
• Equip students with an opportunity to develop the intellectual skills they need to reach their own, informed conclusions.
• Not require, favor, disfavor, or prohibit speech or lawful assembly.
• Create a community dedicated to an ethic of civil and free inquiry, which respects the autonomy of each member, supports individual capacities for growth, and tolerates the differences in opinion that naturally occur in a public higher education community.
• Treat all faculty, staff, and students as individuals, will hold them to equal standards, and provide them equality of opportunity, with regard to those individuals’ race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

The position description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirement of the job change.