Accounting Assistant

What you'll be doing: The Accounting Assistant position will provide competent support for the representatives of the Fund Accounting team through conducting a wide range of clerical and accounting assignments: - Post various transactions in Oracle, including manual usage entries, cost transfers and budgets. - Generate and record cash receipts as well as journal entries in Oracle in order to reclassify and record all related account transactions. - Conduct research in order to help with the reporting, review, problem solving and responding to various inquiries. - Compose reports for the Development and Institute Relations and financial services management. - Cope with a great variety of miscellaneous clerical assignments, such as data validating and file management. - Save and scan different kinds of documents into the document repository in strict accordance with the set conventions. - Work on the other tasks as assigned.

What your background should be: Required and Preferred Skills for the Accounting Assistant position: - Previous experience with Microsoft Office programs, Excel, Outlook, Word as well as solid understanding of accounting systems. - Exceptional follow up and organizational skills, written and verbal communication skills, and strong interpersonal skills. - High School degree or any equivalent + from two years of related professional experience. - Ability to work in a strict accordance with the company instructions given in either written or verbal form. - Flexibility in dealing with the most unexpected changes in approach or / and deliverables. - Ability to prioritize and manage various tasks as well as meet the toughest deadlines. - Ability to master and professionally apply all available procedures and tools. - Proven attention to the smallest details and solid focus on accomplishment and accuracy of work. - Ability to work with 0% of supervision, to identify priorities among the competing standards independently, and comply with the deadline demands. - Prior experience with Cognos and Oracle. - Self-starter, motivated, with demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills. - Experience with Excel advanced functions. - Awareness of and ability to apply all accounting principles.

Who is the client company: Our company is a private research university that was established on the basis of learning by means of discovery. Our experienced and qualified experts know how to challenge students intellectually, develop character, build analytical skills and of course cultivate the efficient knowledge required to both inspire and express the most powerful ideas. The research university comprises six academic divisions each with solid emphasis on engineering and science. The core mission each of our representatives is striving to reach is to expand human knowledge as well as benefit society through thorough research that is integrated with education.; If you are interested in this position, send your resume to apply@kochdavis.com