Careers Job Description
General Description
SUMMARY:
This is a part-time junior accounting position. The incumbent performs routine financial transactions, accounting duties and special assignments. The incumbent maintains exemplary standards of personal and professional ethics, communicates effectively, and assists others by participating in team-based projects as assigned.
Other Duties
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist in the monitoring and maintaining of all bank activities daily and communicate with various departments. Prepare the collateral report and ensure that the cash control procedures are adhered to.
- Assist in the Research Foundation bank reconciliations and take corrective action.
- Assist in analysis and verification of monthly bank billing statement.
- Communicate with bank to perform various transactions such as stop payment, cancellation and inquiry of payment status.
- Assist in providing supporting documentation for program audit requests.
- Prepare and process daily, month-end and year-end journal entries.
- Assist in the analysis of all payroll activities and preparation of journal entries.
- Prepare schedule for stale dated checks, send letter to payees and transmit unclaimed funds to New York State.
- Assist in the processing of garnishee payments.
- Analyze and reconcile various general ledger accounts and reports.
- Assist in the preparation of schedules for year-end financial statement audit.
- Assist in the documentation of policies and procedures.
- Other accounting duties and special assignments as assigned.
Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS:
- The selected candidate should be working towards an accounting degree; with a minimum of 12 accounting credits required.
- Working knowledge of high volume reconciliation and journal entries
- Strong analytical and writing skills
- Demonstrated ability to take the initiative in solving problems
- Working knowledge of MS Excel and Word
- Candidate should be a team player and possess the ability to interact with external contacts and various departments.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Finance
Part Time
Depends on Qualifications
Apr 10, 2018 (Or Until Filled)