- Professional
- Bureau à Salt Lake City
Finance employees receive, account for, monitor, and design internal controls to safeguard sacred funds (donated confidentially in obedience to God's commandments) for the Church's religious mission under the direction of senior ecclesiastical leaders.
This is a senior/specialist level accounting/banking clerical position. An incumbent performs detailed accounting clerical assignments of above average difficulty and resolves unusual or non-recurring problems related to various accounting functions including analyzing accounts, records, reports, journals, vouchers, and other accounting/banking documents for accuracy; investigating questionable entries and initiating corrections; and providing guidance and training to lower level accounting clerks. Incumbents are expected to help maintain and ensure accuracy of financial data. This position may be considered a paraprofessional accounting position.
Responsibilities
Duties will usually include the following types of accounting clerical tasks:
- Processing various types of vendor invoices for payment within multiple systems.
- Matching purchase order receipts to vendor invoices.
- Analyzing and reconciling differences in billed and received quantities.
- Coordinating and resolving exceptions with vendor, warehouse and operations personnel.
- Recording payment discounts, taxes, freight and other adjustments to invoices.
- Processing of invoices in a timely and accurate manner.
- Responding to questions and telephone inquiries in a courteous and professional manner.
Qualifications
Required:
- Four years of accounting clerical work or equivalent work experience.
- Associates degree (2 years of college) or equivalent.
- Proficiency with operating a personal computer in a network.
- Proficiency with using accounting software, Excel, Outlook, Teams, and similar software.
- Knowledge and understanding of accounts payable, accounts receivable, along with general accounting principles, methods, and procedures.
- Must be detail oriented, well organized, and able to perform work in an accurate and timely manner.
Preferred:
- Associates degree in Accounting is preferred.
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics D365 and PeopleSoft is preferred.
