Accountant I

Position Summary

The Accountant I supports the financial and operational activities of the Residential & Hospitality Services (RHS) Business and Financial Services (BFS) office. The position will serve as backup to the accounting supervisor and will be assigned as the Fiscal Officer/Delegate to assist with account reconciliation for several accounts within one or more of the business Units. The candidate may function as a lead on projects to review business functions and make recommendations that enhance processes. This position provides accounting controls for departmental budgets that exceed $20 million of expenses in some units and assists departmental staff with accounting concerns.

About the Role

This position will be fully onsite for the first six months, followed by the option to switch to a hybrid schedule of 3 days onsite, 2 days remote. This is not a fully remote position.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes budget information to track budget to actual figures and to review business purpose of assigned accounts, related business statements such as Food Stores, Stores, Spartan Linen, Planon, Telecom, PCard review, revenue and billing interface reports and special room credits/assignments; verification as well as appropriate transactional documentation for audit purposes.
• Maintains internal files for reconciliations.
• Review with unit manager on a consistent basis for any concerns that may show up.
• Accounts Receivables: Participate in reviewing Accounts Receivables in multiple departments to ensure work is being timely and accurately completed and to assist Office Coordinator with follow-up as necessary.
• Projects: Lead or participate in groups to review and map processes. Identify, analyze gaps and make recommendations to supervisor for improvements to existing processes or creation of a new process.
• Software review and troubleshooting, Populating analytical data and reports to analyze and modify as needed.
• Other duties - Providing backup response to other areas such as Cash Office, Accounts Payable as necessary. Providing guidance to student staff as necessary. May be other miscellaneous job duties assigned as needed based on departments needs.

Qualifications

• Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a four-year college degree program in Accounting; one to three years of related Business Degree with a major emphasis in accounting and progressively more responsible or expansive work experience in financial statement and report preparation, general ledger accounting and budgeting; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong work ethic, independent thinker, self-starter who works well in a team environment to exchange ideas and improve systems and processes.
• Ability to troubleshoot and reconfigure software data tables to recommend improvements in reporting capability.
• Experience with Maestro, Amadeus/Delphi and other room reservation and service billing systems; Campus Solutions, Enterprise Business Systems (Kuali, SAP, BI and Cognos), TeamDynamix, Transact, CashNet, Simphony, and CashPro.
• Familiarity with Capital Asset Management (CAM).

Benefits

All positions in RHS are designated as critical status. In the event of a university closure, modification, or suspension of operations due to snow or other emergency conditions, you will be expected to make all reasonable attempts to report to work as scheduled for the duration of the closure/suspension.

Pay

Salary range: $45,000 - $55,000 per year.

Schedule

Standard 8-5 Monday - Friday with some evenings or weekends based on business need.