Job Title: Financial Analyst/ Accounting specialist
 
 
Location: Columbus 43215
 
 
Duration: 3+ Months
 
 
Shift Hours/Week:  40 Hour/ Week 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM 
 
 
Pay rate: $26.00/hr. on w2 without benefits
 
 
Must have:
 
  
 - Bachelor's Degree.
 - Reconciliation.
 - Minimum 3 years of accounting.
 - Minimum 2 years finance experience.
 - Payroll (Processes off-cycle manual paychecks).
 
  
 
 
Roles and Responsibilities:
 
 
Examines &/or analyzes accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, & conformance to reporting & procedural standards:
 
  
 - Conducts complex reconciliation of records (e.g., MBE/EDGE, payment card threshold, Medicaid)
 - Determines coding for transactions
 - Develops forms & manuals for accounting procedures
 - Researches & analyzes transaction errors (e.g., budget, coding, interface) & resolves without external
 - involvement
 - Administers accounts outside of TOS (e.g., custodial, independent, client, inmate)
 - Researches questionable &/or unauthorized payment card transactions
 - Monitors & analyzes outstanding A/R
 - Reviews expenditures to ensure allowable costs are within the POA
 - Monitors CAP for state &/or federal auditors.
 
  
 
 
 
Performs payroll activities:
 
  
 - Reconciles complex leave information in OAKS &/or agency-specific system (e.g., military, OIL, disability, workers' compensation, garnishments)
 - Processes off-cycle manual paychecks
 
  
 
 
Performs other related accounting duties:
 
  
 - Determines the amount for daily cash draws
 - Closes out allocations at end of SFY
 - Calculates service charges from established rates
 - Performs debt collection process (e.g., determines late payments & sends notices; creates payment schedules; certifies unpaid invoices to AGO)
 
  
 
 
Required Skills:
 
  
 - Knowledge of accounting; applicable state &/or federal laws, rules, procedures & standards governing fiscal operations.
 - ERP systems* (e.g., OAKS FIN) &/or federal accounting system purchasing.
 - Budgeting
 - Skill in use of calculator, electronic devices (e.g., computer, tablet, cell phone) & applicable software applications (e.g., spreadsheets, databases, word processing), multi-purpose workcentres; OAKS BI reporting.
 - Ability to define problems, collect & analyze data, establish facts & draw valid conclusions; prepare &/or edit financial reports, records, &/or correspondence
 - Gather, collate & classify information about data, people or things.
 - Concentrate with attention to detail; deal with many variables & determine specific action.
 - Collaborate with co-workers on group projects &/or respond to confidential & sensitive inquiries from employees, public & government officials.
 
  
 
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