Senior Accountant (General Ledger)

Description

Looking to take the next step in your accounting career? Join the AOPC Finance team and receive exceptional medical benefits starting on day one. As a General Ledger Accountant, you will analyze financial transactions, ensure proper general ledger recording, and create accrual-based financial reports with necessary reconciliations.

Primary Duties

• Responsible for reconciling all balance sheet accounts.
• Ensures monthly reconciliation of revenue and expense accounts across three systems: internal, PA Treasury (PeopleSoft), and PA Commonwealth (SAP).
• Maintains and ensures compliance with internal general ledger account coding rules and trains accounting and independent offices on proper usage.
• Converts cash-based accounting records to full accrual as needed.
• Reviews and/or prepares accrual-based journal entries.
• Collaborates with payroll to ensure correct general ledger account coding and reconciliation of payroll transactions and accruals.
• Creates, maintains, and documents accounting workflows and internal controls. Collaborates with the finance department and independent office staff to document processes as needed.
• Works independently, using critical thinking and problem-solving skills, performs research, and traces accounting issues to their source. Works directly with the PA Office of Budget/Bureau of Financial Management, PA Department of Revenue, and the PA Treasury to resolve discrepancies and accounting coding issues between the internal system and PeopleSoft or SAP.
• Responsible for the accuracy and completion of the GAAP-based ACFR package. GAAP package includes creating accrual-based financial schedules, creating manual Excel journal entries for submission to BFM, running and analyzing SAP reports, and creating reconciliations to tie the GAAP package to internal accounting records. Collaborates with accounting staff responsible for accounts payable and receivable listings to ensure accuracy and completeness.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with coursework in accounting PLUS
• Three years of professional accounting experience.

Additional Requirements/Preferences

• Knowledge of GAAP, GASB, financial terms, and principles, including cash and accrual accounting methods.
• Knowledge and skill to independently comprehend, analyze, and interpret financial transactions and correct discrepancies.
• Ability to work with interruptions, strict deadlines, and minimal supervision.
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, and Excel) is required.
• Workday, PeopleSoft, and SAP software experience preferred.
• CPA preferred.
• Satisfactory criminal background check required.

Additional Information

• Excellent State benefits program including comprehensive, low-cost medical, dental, vision, and prescription plans for employees and eligible family members beginning on the first day of employment; 13 paid holidays, 12 paid sick days, and 12+ paid vacation days per year; salary increases; student loan forgiveness plan; employee assistance programs; and retirement plans.
• Free parking.

Unified Judicial System Hiring Policy

The Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania recruits, employs, and promotes the most qualified applicants without regard to their political affiliation, race, color, age, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, or other non-merit facts or considerations. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to applicants with disabilities as may be necessary to ensure that all applicants are given a fair and equal opportunity to compete for all employment positions. Applicants who need accommodation for an interview should request so in advance. UJS hiring and employment policies and procedures are intended to conform to all applicable state and federal laws governing fair and non-discriminatory hiring and employment practices and are subject to change as necessary to remain in compliance with such laws.

Applicants requiring accommodation, for any part of the application and/or interview process, should contact Human Resources at (717) 231-3309 or human.resources@pacourts.us.