Accounting Clerk I

Accounting Clerk I The Accounting Clerk I is responsible for managing the full lifecycle of accounts receivable operations for both CAMPUS and DOR/Munis divisions. This role demands a high level of accuracy, organization, and collaboration as it involves posting and reconciling payments, preparing client statements, processing refunds, and ensuring compliance with internal financial policies. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical skills, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and the ability to navigate complex payment systems and data sets. This position collaborates closely with Client Services, IT, and Compliance teams to support financial integrity and operational efficiency across multiple accounts and systems. Job duties and responsibilities include managing the receipt, verification, and posting of payments, accurately processing deposits and daily closeouts, ensuring all transactions are recorded under the correct Line of Business, preparing client statements, reconciling fee reports against check registers, identifying and resolving discrepancies, posting journal entries and recording revenue, reconciling QuickBooks with CT Team reports, maintaining audit-ready records, tracking overpayments and issuing consumer refunds, making account-level adjustments, maintaining accurate documentation, serving as a liaison between the Finance department and Client Services/IT teams, supporting onboarding processes and contract reviews, responding to inquiries regarding client statements, compiling documentation and reports in support of internal and external audits, preparing detailed audit files and generating reports, developing and implementing best practices to streamline account receivable workflows, maintaining tracking logs for payment types, DOR refunds, and outstanding checks, and generating routine reports to monitor current and past due balances and identify aging accounts. Qualifications include a high school diploma or GED required, 2 years of experience in a financial institution, accounting department, or similar field, strong proficiency in QuickBooks, Excel, and banking platforms, excellent attention to detail, organizational skills, and analytical mindset, effective communicator with the ability to collaborate across departments, project management experience, strong organizational skills and attention to detail, effective professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, knowledge of MS Office Applications, QuickBooks experience preferable, ability to produce quality materials within tight timeframes, ability to analyze financial data, ability to comply with rules, regulations, laws and methods as related to debt collection, ability to handle and resolve recurring problems, U.S. citizenship and security clearance granting access to classified information, safeguarding computer systems by following proper username and password management, securing desks and workstations, not sharing username or password, following Information Technology policies and procedures regarding management of system accounts and equipment, and reporting any security violations to management.

Created: 2026-03-10