First Community Mortgage Hiring for Staff Accountant I Job at Shelbyville, TN Full Time

Role and Responsibilities: ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Accounts payable functions:

• Maintain lease schedule for all locations
• Code and process vendor invoices and internal check requests
• Cut and mail checks
• Initiate ACH transactions
• Import disbursement data and images into the accounting software program
• Answer accounts payable inquiries
• Code, reconcile, and import credit card transactions into accounting software
• Serve as a back-up for paying mortgage insurance premiums
• Deliver overnight packages to UPS/FedEx drop-off boxes

Perform detailed general ledger account reconciliations for multiple accounts:

• Identify reconciling items
• Determine the appropriate course of action needed to clear out reconciling items and pursue said action
• Follow up on aged items
• Serve as a back-up for maintaining hedge account balance subledgers

Import loan-related transactions into the accounting system:

• Export loan and borrower accounting information from loan origination program (Encompass) into accounting system (AMB).
• Reconcile exported transactions with bank statements and ensure proper formatting and general ledger coding for importing into accounting program/software (AMB). Investigate all non-conforming transactions. Be sure that all transactions are balanced.
• Import reconciled entries into accounting software using import utility. Investigate all import errors and make proper adjustments for re-import. After import, reconcile general ledger balances with bank statements.

Prepare and input general ledger journal entries:

• To record cash transactions
• To correct loan and general transactions improperly entered or imported
• To record accrued liability transactions
• To allocate income and expenses to the appropriate cost centers