Staff Accountant

Job Details Job Location: New Orleans, LA 70143 Salary Range: $27.40 - $36.06 Hourly PRIMARY FUNCTION Perform office support activities for credit union operations.Deliver extraordinary member service bydemonstratingand maintaining exceptional knowledgeandexpertiseof all financial products and services, as well as providing highly effective resolution of member issues. Maintains the Credit Union’s accounting records and reports, ensuring theyare in compliance withgenerally acceptedaccounting and financial practices. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The following duties are normal for this position. These are not to be constructed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Other duties may berequiredand assigned. Reviews and verifies the accuracy of journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various records. Prepares income and balance sheet statements,consolidatedstatements, and various other accounting statements and reports. Completes accounting functionsin accordance withestablished Credit Union policies and procedures. Maintainsvarious general ledger account reconciliation, bank reconciliationsand regularly contact other departments to obtain information and/or to correct transactions. Analyzes, posts, balance, and reconcile financial data, ledgers, and accounts. Keeps management informed of area activities and of any significant problems. Maintain various month-end processingin a timely manner. Understand, interpret, and apply general and specific administrative and departmental policies and procedures as well asapplicablefederal, state, and local policies, laws, and regulations. Plans and organize work to meet changing priorities and deadlines. Ability to cross-train and back-up other functions that may include ACH/Wire capabilities. Completes all required compliance/continuing education training Process all sharedraftsand ACH exception adjustments and returns daily. Process Debit Card exceptions and perform daily balancing. Process monthly corporate Visa expense reports. Submit and process monthly/quarterly federal/state tax payments. Balance and verify daily G/L transactionsto catalyst daily activities. Balance daily vault and teller cash, process entries for cash orders and shipments. Prepare and enter journal entries for all daily activities. Process Catalyst incoming returns. Balance process RTP (real time payments) with CACU. Review, code,and processinvoices for payment. Process EFT Disputes and Government Reclamations. Manage and control all taxleviesand garnishments, placingholdsonaccountsand remitting payments asrequired. ProcessandmonitorATM and check card disputeswithin regulation guidelinesand balance GL. Monitor fraud accounts andsubmitfraudclaimsas necessary. Prepare monthly operationalcharge offto besubmittedtoCEOfor BOD approval. Other Responsibilities Provideback upforVisacredit cardand debit card operations and disputesas needed. Other duties andtasksassigned bysupervisor. Qualifications 3 years of accounting experience Bachelor's Degree in Accounting (preferred) #J-18808-Ljbffr