• Education -: 3-5 Years' of experience in accounting specific to fixed assets and grants. • Mandatory -: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field.
Duties- : • This position routinely creates and performs account analysis, reconciliations, and audit schedules; creates and enters journal entries; works with the chart of accounts; and special projects as needed. • Work involves problem solving and could include mediating highly conflicting, unexpected, and unusual problems involving multiple groups. • Performs all work within generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), following federal, state and local requirements and guidelines established by HART.
Fixed Assets: • Identifies capital asset purchases and properly documents them. Updates and maintains fixed asset records. • Reviews travel request forms and expense reports for accuracy. • Coordinates annual fixed asset inventory with other departments. • Completes the annual financial National Transit Database reporting. • Maintains files of all fixed asset acquisitions, adjustments, changes, transfers, and retired assets. • Prepares monthly reconciliation of the fixed asset accounting system to the general ledger. • Prepares monthly and year-end reports as scheduled, requested, and/or required for external auditors. • Create and monitor a system of controls, procedures, and forms for the recordation of fixed assets. • Recommend to management any updates to accounting policies related to fixed assets. • Assign tag numbers to fixed assets. • Track expenditures for fixed assets in comparison to the capital budget and management authorizations. • Record fixed asset acquisitions and dispositions in the accounting system. • Review and update the detailed schedule of fixed assets and accumulated depreciation. • Prepares National Transit Database annual financial reports.
Grants: • Performs a wide variety of general and specialized accounting functions pertaining to grant funded projects. • Prepares the paperwork for all cash requests (draws) from the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Electronic Clearing House Operation System (ECHO-Web). • Examines the financial status of each grant to be drawn and runs a database query report that details the grant's check payments included in a particular draw. • Verifies voucher, requisitions and other financial data for accuracy, completeness and conformance with funding guidelines and accounting procedures. • Develops, prepares and updates regular and specialized financial reports and statements for grants in compliance with Federal, State, local and HART requirements. • Prepares documents supporting monthly accrual amounts for grant expenditures that are based on salary, fringes and route deficits. • Compiles financial data for use in the analyses of grant funded projects. • Reviews the trial balance for accuracy and makes journal entries in the general journal. • Serves from time to time as Project Manager or project team member on a variety of subject matter expertise organizational projects or stretch assignments as assigned by the Portfolio Steering Committee (PSC) of the agency Project Management Office (PMO). • These assignments will implement broad strategic and organizational agency goals. |