Accounting Administrative Specialist

Title: Accounting Administrative Specialist

Agency: Rappahannock Community College

Location: Gloucester - 073

FLSA: Nonexempt

Hiring Range: The salary range will be $48,000 - $53,000, commensurate with experience.

Full Time or Part Time: Full Time

Additional Detail

Job Description:

Rappahannock Community College (RCC), founded in 1970, provides high-quality educational and training opportunities throughout a 12-county service region an hour east of Richmond on the beautiful western shore of the Chesapeake Bay with access to fresh local seafood and water activities. RCC delivers accessible and affordable educational opportunities, including for-credit transfer and career technical programs, robust distance education coursework, quality dual enrollment courses, and award-winning workforce training and credentialing programs. RCC's annualized enrollment of 3,900 credit students in 2025-2026 and almost 890 workforce and community development students are supported by almost 140 full-time employees and over 200 part-time/adjunct employees across two main campuses and five satellite sites.

Are you someone who wants to help students achieve their educational and professional dreams?

RCC seeks applicants for our Accounting Administrative Specialist job opening. This is a full-time, classified staff position, with an excellent benefits package. The salary range will be $48,000 - $53,000, commensurate with experience. This position will be located at the Glenns campus.

The overall goals of the Accounting Administrative Specialist position are to assist the accounting function at RCC with administrative tasks related to procurement, funds disbursement, payroll, asset management, accounts receivables and audits.

Reporting to the Business Manager, the Accounting Administrative Specialist assists faculty and staff with procurement needs, processes invoices and check requests, keys payroll adjustments, assists with travel reimbursements and responds to vendor and staff reimbursement inquiries. This position is also responsible for processing fund payments, checks and invoices, verifying information accuracy and coding, and maintaining and updating spreadsheets. The incumbent also maintains files and updates electronic inventory records. Lastly this position assists the accountants with financial audits, receivables, and expenditure reconciliation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Ability to analyze, balance, investigate, and/or reconcile financial data.
• Ability to calculate numbers, correct entries, and post to records.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple tasks.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel with the ability to create and maintain spreadsheets and Word.

Additional Considerations:

• Work experience in state accounting and procurement, accounts payable, inventory, and various software.
• Knowledge of and experience with cash management principles and/or procedures, procurement, and inventory processes.
• Working knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and practices.
• Proficiency in Adobe and PeopleSoft applications.