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Skills for Chicagoland's Future

Location: ChicagoIL 60601 Document ID: AB052-4USX Posted on: 2017-02-2802/28/2017 Job Type: Regular

Job Schedule:Full-time
2017-03-30
 

Accounting Assistant I


Become a member of a top Chicago university's team! The Accounting Assistant is a role with great career ladder potential and competitive pay and benefits. Give yourself a competitive advantage by applying to this role through Skills for Chicagoland's Future (Skills). Skills is a nonprofit organization that partners with organizations across the Chicagoland area to place unemployed and underemployed job seekers with employers that are committed to hiring talent through Skills.

Why utilize Skills for Chicagoland's Future as one of your job search sources?

Skills is your advocate with the hiring company throughout the hiring process. Any job seeker who Skills determines is a match for the role is interviewed by a member of Skills' Talent Acquisition Team and provided with additional insights into the role. Additionally, Skills is free for job seekers.

The Hiring Company

This top university in Chicago offers academically excellent, flexible, practical programs of study in a student-focused learning environment, and the 13th largest private, not-for-p rofit university in the nation. It is one of the largest private, not-for-profit college in the Midwest, where the university and its students have been immersed in the cultural, civic and professional experiences of Chicago for more than 100 years.

Job Description

The Part-Time Accounting Assistant position v erifies fiscal source documents for accuracy, completeness, authorization and coding. Verifies proper application fees, refunds, collections and discounts within the context of verifying general ledger balances or reconciling sub-systems to the general ledger or identifying system problems or control weaknesses. Reviews fiscal transactions to assure conformity with accepted accounting principles and with statute, policy, procedure and availability of funds.

Reviews and verifies the accuracy and classifications of transactions posted to accounting journals, general ledger accounts, and other subsidiary records. Does routine reconciliations such as cash accounts.

Communicates and explains pertinent accounting data. Applies basic accounting theory to recommend establishment of accounting controls and financial review trails to higher level accounting staff or management. Provides standard & routine financial & accounting support typically involving maintenance &/or processing that requires application of accounting practices. Applies basic accounting theory to design, generate and reconcile accounting reports such as individual fund balance sheet and operating statements for a small number of funds and various other accounting statements and reports

Qualifications Required:
  • High school diploma or the equivalent.
  • High level of organizational skills and attention to detail;
  • Great oral and written communication
  • Excellent teamwork experience working with confidential information
  • Professionalism

Software Required:
  • MS Office suite 2013 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
  • Excellent in Excel

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