Accounting Clerk

Overview

We are seeking a detail-oriented and organized Accounting Clerk to join our finance team. This role is vital in supporting our customer, ensuring accuracy in financial data entry, account reconciliation, and maintaining compliance with accounting standards. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in accounting software and financial concepts, with experience in both corporate and governmental accounting environments. This position offers an excellent opportunity to develop your skills within a dynamic organization that values precision and integrity in financial management.

Duties

• Prepares, examines, computes, processes, elevates, rejects, and responds to inquiries concerning permanent duty travel and temporary travel vouchers to ensure entitlement to travel and travel-related benefits.

After the successful completion of the 120-day training and testing period, technicians must demonstrate:

• Knowledge of general travel pay guidance for Active Duty, Reserve, and civilian employees regarding travel entitlement and reimbursement rules, regulations, instructions, procedures, and operations, and ability to understand and apply precedents and resolve general procedural and substantive problems in concluding inquiries.
• Knowledge of travel records and systems' format, content, and use.
• Knowledge of lines of accounting.
• Basic knowledge of the common laws, rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and precedents relating to the area of assignment and the ability to apply this knowledge to resolve caller inquiries.
• Proficiency in preparing correspondence, documents, and reports using various word processing and spreadsheet software programs.
• Provides feedback such as suggestions or recommendations for workplace and processing improvement.
• Required to process an average of 25 travel vouchers per workday with a minimum accuracy standard of 84%.
• Reviews/inputs travel vouchers involving military, civilian, reservist temporary duty, permanent change of station, personal property movement and storage, deployment, and TDY to school accruals to ensure proper entitlements, including payment of travel and supplemental benefits.
• Processes Financial Services Offices initiated pay affecting documents ranging from debt collection to special entitlements due to meeting specific criteria.
• Determines necessary accounting transactions and codes, tracks and updates electronic funds transfer (EFT) rejects, prepares daily accountability reports, and processes remittance checks.
• Processes accounting data, inputs data, processes interfaces, and updates spreadsheets, as applicable.
• Reviews, processes, corrects, validates, and balances travel accounting transactions.
• Elevates difficult or time-consuming inquiries. Tracks unresolved cases. Elevates knowledge-based deficiencies.
• Works with various financial systems, including the Reserve Travel System (RTS), Defense Joint Military Pay System (DJMS), Defense Enterprise Accounting & Management System (DEAMS), Financial Management Workflow (FMWF), Defense Travel System (DTS), Commanders' Resource Integration System (CRIS), LeaseWeb, and standard desktop applications (email, Microsoft Office, etc.).
• Transmits and receives documents and messages electronically using computer workstations that are networked or linked to other computers or workstations.
• Meets specified service delivery metrics, including performance monitoring requirements.
• Demonstrates ability and skill in effective oral and written communication; ability to maintain effective working relationships internally and externally; interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
• Can work under pressure of established deadlines.
• Possesses a High School diploma or equivalent, at a minimum.

Requirements

• Proven experience with accounting software or similar platforms
• Strong understanding of financial concepts
• Experience with financial software for balance sheet reconciliation and accounts payable/receivable management
• Excellent data entry skills with high accuracy (10-key typing proficiency)
• Ability to analyze financial data accurately and efficiently
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail in maintaining financial records
• Effective communication skills to collaborate across departments and support audit activities

This position offers a challenging yet rewarding environment for individuals who are detail-oriented and work well under deadline pressures.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $ $17.20 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience:

• Data entry: 1 year (Preferred)
• Accounting: 2 years (Preferred)

Location:

• Ellsworth AFB, SD (Preferred)

Security clearance:

• Secret (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $17