Accountant jobs in Olympia, WA

Description

Duties

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

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  Enters, monitors, and reconciles the daily cash positions between multiple sources utilizing several accounting platforms. Ensures all cash movement and fund unitization is completed accurately and efficiently prior to deadlines.
• Analyzes and prepares monthly transactions and compiles stakeholder reporting while demonstrating a keen attention to detail and accuracy.
• Prepares monthly reconciliations of par value, market value, and income accruals between various accounting systems and the custodial bank. Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of various types of complex investment instruments and cash flows, prepares the reconciliation report while explaining and resolving all reconciled items.
• Assists the management team in the development and review of the annual financial statements and plays a key role in the closing fiscal year end postings, reconciliations, and reporting.
• Assists in coordinating trade processing with the investment division, custodian bank, brokers and other impacted parties and resolves settlement or other cash processing issues to ensure timely settlement.
• Accounts for various unitized products where a daily or monthly net asset value is computed. Reconciles data to subsidiary systems, reviews price movement and other activity in relationship to established metrics, researches and resolves discrepancies in a timely manner to meet daily or monthly deliverable timelines.
• Collaborates with peers to prepare daily cash projections used by investment staff and external managers for asset allocation and trading decisions.
• Prepares monthly journal vouchers for posting to state general ledger systems and reconciles the general ledger to supporting documentation.
• Provides back-up to other principal tasks in the unit.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree which includes 18 quarter or 12 semester hours of accounting, auditing, or budgeting.
• 2 years of relevant accounting experience.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills.

• Investment accounting and/or treasury management experience.
• Knowledge of Governmental Accounting Principles, investment accounting, and operational best practices.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certification (or candidate for).

• Experience – Diverse experience in accounting and financial reporting; preferably fund accounting experience at a custodian bank, institutional, or other investor. Experience utilizing complex accounting systems to independently perform complex processing and reconciliations to various accounting, cash management, and trading systems.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills – Demonstrated ability and experience interpreting and applying highly technical and complicated financial instructions and processes. Ability to identify and anticipate the potential downstream impacts interfacing with other accounting processes and various data and information platforms throughout the agency. A high degree of intellectual curiosity, creative problem-solving skills, and proactivity.
• Communications Skills – Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, across all levels of the agency and external parties such as consultants, stakeholders, third party record keepers, custodian bank, and external investment managers.
• Collaboration – Ability to collaborate across functional areas and teams for the purposes of cross training, skill development, and unit coverage.
• Computer Skills – Intermediate to advanced Excel skills. Experience with comprehensive financial processing systems and trade settlement platforms.

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