Accountant Trainee

The Maryland Department of Transportation is seeking an Accountant Trainee within the Office of Finance at BWI Marshall Airport. This role involves examining accounting systems, creating invoices, and reconciling payments to ensure accurate financial reporting.

What you'll do:

• Examining, analyzing, and interpreting accounting systems, records, and reports by applying generally accepted accounting principles in order to modify and maintain agency accounting systems
• Creating and sending out invoices that reflect the current rents. The approximate annual total of these types of invoices is $90 million
• Preparing and maintaining various reports and logs relating to the Accounts Receivable functions, to include but not limited to logs of monthly revenue activity reports and airline traffic reports
• Reconciling any differences between invoices and payments with the goal of resolving any differences in a timely manner. Responsible for customer communications and ensuring customer satisfaction by working directly with customers involving other departments as necessary

What they're looking for:

• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting from an accredited college or university, including or supplemented by three credit hours in auditing
• Candidates may substitute a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with thirty credit hours in Accounting and related courses, including or supplemented by three credit hours in auditing, for the required education
• Applicants who have met the requirements for admission to the CPA examination prior to July 1, 1974 will be considered to have met the educational requirement referenced above

Benefits:

• Healthcare
• Dental
• Long term disability
• Flexible work schedules
• Benefits are offered to all full-time, part-time permanent and contractual (partially subsidized) employees.
• Temporary employees do not receive benefits.