Job Title: Staff Accountant
Department: Finance Date: July 2026
FLSA: Non-Exempt Work Location: Carolinas Campus
Employee Category: Classified Staff Work Schedule: M-F, 8:00am – 5:00pm
Reports to: Director for Finance –
Carolinas Campus
Percent Employment: 100%
Direct Reports: N/A
I. Job Summary:
Assisting the Director for Finance of the Carolinas Campus with business office functions in an
efficient and timely manner; comply with sound business practices, college policies, and federal
and state regulations, while ensuring the safeguarding of company assets.
II. Job Duties:
1. Accounts Payable
a. Ensure appropriate coding, entry and payment of vendor invoices and employee
reimbursement. This includes compiling invoicing and approvals, reconciling vendor
statements and ensuring employee reimbursement is consistent with VCOM policies
and procedures.
b. Maintain vendor and employee reimbursement copies for retrieval per audit requests,
vendor requests or employee requests.
c. Packaging and submitting invoicing and reimbursement requests on a timely basis to
VCOM for payment.
2. Deposits
a. Daily coding and posting of cash receipts for student accounting and or
miscellaneous cash receipts.
b. Timely filing of check copies and batches in date order to ensure availability at the
request of auditors, management and or students.
3. Financial Aid Processing
a. Assisting in the processing of financial aid to student accounts to include but not
limited to: Posting of cash to the appropriate student account, calculating student
refunds and or payables, creating journal entries for the posting of federal financial
aid in accordance with federal regulations and assisting in the processing of student
refunds.
4. Credit Card Processing
a. Processing of monthly credit card reports for all Campus users to include, ensuring
receipts tie to the monthly statement, ensuring purchases are according to the
VCOM policies and ensuring appropriate coding of all receipts.
b. Monthly reconciliation of credit card reports.
c. Monthly posting to the financial accounting system.
5. Function as a budget liaison and advisor for designated division and perform monthly
variance analysis as requested.
6. Serve as back-up Purchasing Agent for the Campus.
7. Assist in organizing and moving payment documents to storage and in destroying payment
documents in accordance with the departmental records retention policy.
8. Participate on college committees and activities as requested, and as work schedule permits.