Budget accountant vs general accountant

Differences between budget accountant and general accountant duties and responsibilities

Budget accountant example responsibilities.

• Manage the review, enhancement, and creation of department policy and procedure documentation require for Sarbanes-Oxley auditing and compliance.
• Prepare budgets, reconciliations and outcome reports for grants.
• Facilitate data transfer and reconciliation between systems (TSI/T-II and PeopleSoft).
• Review staffing compensations, medical benefits, professional insurances, headcount, and FTE metrics.
• Collaborate extensively with CPA's office during preliminary and year-end audit/review process to ensure completeness of financial statements and tax returns.
• Develop ROI analysis model for propose capital investments and authore requirements policy and process flow, which streamline decision-making process.

General accountant example responsibilities.

• Manage payroll functions, financial statements, accounts payable, basic job cost, account analysis, accruals, year-end audits.
• Manage and monitor accounting procedures for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and coordinate and facilitate external audit requirements.
• Assist manager with cash flow, preparing financial statement, BBC, and report to CPA.
• Create budget at beginning and coordinate CPA firm's audit at the end of year.
• Assist in any kind of audit engagement (internal control, external, SOX, etc . )
• Provide support for the controller with period-end close accruals and journal entries and assist in various duties and responsibilities.
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