Associate Accountant Vcancy at United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) in New York,USA

Post:Associate Accountant
Organization:United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
Location:New York,United States of America
General Board of Global Ministries United Methodist Women is seeking an Associate Accountant. This
position works with the Finance Office of the United Methodist Women (UMW) focusing on the financial management and resourcing of the Offices of United Methodist Women on financial matters. The ideal candidate possesses excellent analytical skills to prepare financial material in conformity with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. As well as the ability to multitask and take on additional projects and duties as assigned; working with minimal supervision, and the ability to communicate well with other members of the financial team. Adherence to United Methodist women national office policies and procedures to ensure confidentiality of information is critical.

The Position • Provide analysis results for variance/trends for UMW
 • Assist with monthly and year end closing, journal entries financial transactions, banking reconciliations and corrections
 • Assist in maintaining monthly budget reports in a manner that provides clear and understandable information to unit heads and other staff as needed
 • Oversee account payable functions to ensure accurate timely release of disbursements as well as manage returns of checks and wires notifying respective parties initiating required actions • Assist in maintaining financial reports for a variety of end users (Using GP, Management Reporter, other) create/run queries as needed
• Record/reclass journal entries as needed by other section/departments for approved items to be in conformity with budges and financial statement classifications.
 • Review of aged trial balances for missing or outstanding payments
 • Reconcile, merchant statements to banks as well as verify charges and credits to merchant accounts
 • Assist in reviewing and analyzing monthly receivables and payables accounts
 • Reconcile Travel report balances by units against the GL making all necessary corrections to exclude all expenses not related to personal travel expenses to ensure proper expense classification on the Budget Control report and income statement
 • Prepare Bank reconciliation to ensure accuracy of book balances and reasonableness of all reconciling items
• Notify internal requestor when payment is issued and provide confirmation statement
• Serve as backup to Senior Accountant in his/her absence

Requirements
 • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• Minimum of 1-3 yrs. experience in Accounting
• Skills with developing online networks, use of databases and general word processing and spreadsheets including proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
 • Proficiency in Great Plains is required

Please apply by going to www.umcmission.org and click on careers tap on the button. When applying let us know where you saw the job posting.

The General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church is an equal opportunity employer; as such, we do not discriminate in our employment decisions on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military status, disability, or on any other basis that would be in violation of any applicable federal, state, or local law.
Closing date: 15 Aug 2013
How to apply: 
http://reliefweb.int/job/592535/associate-accountant