Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Robertson & Company Ltd. is a top financial institution with significant North American holdings, and they are seeking an Accounting Clerk I to support their operations. The role involves a variety of clerical accounting tasks, including journal entries, account reconciliation, and ensuring compliance with company policies and regulations.
Responsibilities
- Clerical accounting-related activities, which may include making journal entries, balancing and reconciling accounts, recording and paying invoices and other payables, processing accounts receivable and other activities
- Performs a variety of clerical accounting-related activities
- Performs a variety of general ledger journal entries
- Reconciles accounts to ensure offsetting debit and credit entries and balanced accounts within established timeframes
- Verifies that output resulting from work, such as checks generated based on journal entries, is accurate and correct
- Researches and resolves outstanding transactions to ensure accounts are properly reconciled
- Ensures verification of specific transactions and conformance to established Company policies and procedures and external regulations and guidelines prior to processing
- Determines if proper taxes have been paid and accounted for, including federal and state sales tax checking vendor status and setting up new vendors on system and determining transactions that require reporting to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and IRS form 099s
- Obtains information from a variety of sources, which may include creating and downloading system reports checking various registers; contacting employees originating transactions to clarify information and coordinating with internal department accounting, financial analysis and other staff
- Investigates to understand intent of transactions and explains proper procedures as needed
- Provides additional explanatory information as necessary
- Coordinates with various outside agencies, including the IRS, state tax offices, companies, vendors, customers and others to resolve issues, answer questions and ensure proper processing
- Answers questions from employees, other departments, IRS, state tax offices, companies, vendors and others regarding transactions, proper procedures and other issues on an ongoing basis
- Research issues as needed and follows up to ensure complete explanation
- Maintains knowledge of proper Company policies and federal and state regulations applicable to assigned work
- Maintains understanding of how assigned accounts and areas work as well as understanding of more detailed day-to-day activities
Skills
- GED degree required
- 0-2 years in financial institution experience
- Good problem-solving skills
- Attention to detail
- Effective communication
- MS Office knowledge
- Basic accounting skills
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