Accounting Clerk I

Job Title
Accounting Clerk I
Location
Anchorage - , AK 99501 US (Primary)
# of Hires Needed
1
Job Type
Full-time
Job Description
Provides financial, clerical, and administrative support to ensure the efficient, timely, and accurate payment of vendors.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Monitor email traffic and respond to inquiries within twenty-four hours.
• Date stamp all incoming payables: invoices, purchase orders, reimbursements, travel vouchers and expense reports.
• Organize all invoices and purchase orders to be matched.
• Audit invoices against purchase orders and research discrepancies.
• Enter invoices into accounting software.
• Process weekly check runs.
• Reconcile monthly vendor statements against vendor profiles and past vendor payments.
• Learn and use various computer programs and applications to; enter and maintain data; generate reports from a database or in-house accounting software for various departments.
• Maintain physical files for paid and unpaid A/P.
• Maintain up to date vendor profiles.
• Conduct periodic, monthly, quarterly and year end audits.
• Assist with closing monthly financials.
• As assigned, assist with the collection, printing, processing, and entering of monthly expense reports.
• As assigned, assist in reviewing, processing, and entering accounts receivable items; fuel receipts, fuel reports, hours reports, timecards, Microsoft Excel worksheets, Microsoft Word documents, manifests, invoices and cash receipts.
• As assigned, perform a variety of general office tasks to support operations and other departments functions; answering phones, receive and process mail, scanning, creating copies, distributing documents, operating and maintaining office equipment or software, troubleshooting and maintaining assorted office equipment or software.

Collateral Duties:

• Perform other duties as directed by the Chief Financial Officer, Controller, or Accounting Supervisor.

Job Requirements
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education and/or Experience:

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school; or six months to one year of accounting related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge of modular accounting system (example: Deltek Costpoint) experience is helpful. Additional software knowledge includes Microsoft Access Database; Internet browsers; order processing systems; payroll systems; Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.

Language Skills. Must be able to:

• Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• To write routine reports and correspondence.
• To speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills. Must be able to:

• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Calculate and compute rate, ratio, and percentages.
• Read, calculate, and interpret time on a 24-hour clock basis.

Work Environment. Must be able to:

• Handle confidential and sensitive information.
• Execute discretion and independent judgment.
• Work independently and to collaborate with a team.

Physical Demands. Must be able to:

• Stand, walk, sit; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds.
• Communicate on the telephone.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran