Accountant

Position : Accountant
Location : Chicago IL Remote
Direct Client Requirement

Responsibilities include Treasury/Cash Management activities. Also, assist in preparing journal entries, performs reconciliations, and performs account analysis. Audits various bank accounts and GL accounts to verify accuracy. Bachelors Degree with 1-5 years of experience. Generally reports to Director, Treasury.

Treasury Specific:
Help Support with Daily and month-end Cash Management, Investment, and Accounting activities
Access Bank reports from various banking and investment institutions to use as a basis for cash projections and reporting.
Assist with responsibilities for the daily determination of the cash position for the daily cash requirements of business units, including whether the programs have either an excess or shortage of funds, and act appropriately.
Assist with daily bank transaction reports to gather, analyze, and monitor business' money-movement transactions.
Assist with Reviewing Daily Positive Pay check clearing exceptions to safeguard corporate assets and prevent fraud; and review any ACH return items and ensure appropriate corrections are made.
Assist with Reviewing and approving and at times, initiate daily fund disbursements by creating ACH or FED Wire transactions based on disbursement data provided by the Account Payable's department. Maintain required bank routing information. Assist with calculation of funding to redeem investment funds to cover daily disbursements.
Assist with preparing month-end standard accounting entries for Treasury and Investment activities. Assist in preparing various month-end cash, reconciliation, and investment transfer reports for controls and accuracy for Director, Treasury Operations.
Assist with the following: Acquire, update, and deliver various electronic reports and banking statements to forward on to the financial reporting staff for month-end reconciliations and tax purposes.
Support with Performing weekly banking reconciliation process, to identify and ensure accuracy of money movement. Includes working with Financial Reporting staff to effectively perform month-end reconciliation process.
Assist with updating Cash projection reports.
Assist in preparing and reviewing daily cash reports, review of investment action strategy, and accessing a Letter of Credit facility to drawdown money to fund programs.
Applies generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to prepare income and balance sheet statements and various other accounting statements and reports. Assist in preparing journal entries, performs reconciliations, and performs account analysis. Assist in auditing various records to verify accuracy. Bachelors Degree with 1-5 years of experience. Reports to Director of Treasury Operations.