Accountant III - GL Accountant

About the role

This position plays a key role in supporting month-end and year-end close, financial reporting accuracy, accounting process improvements, and system implementation initiatives. The ideal candidate is a strong technical accountant who understands complex financial transactions, can identify and resolve accounting issues according to GAAP and GASB, and works collaboratively with campus departments and colleges to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant financial transactions.

Responsibilities

• Prepare accurate and well-supported accrual journal entries for month-end and year-end close.
• Support allocation methodologies, including calculation, documentation, review, and improvement of recurring allocation entries.
• Assist with intercompany, interfund, or intra-University eliminations and related accounting processes.
• Support monthly and year-end close processes by ensuring assigned accounting activities are completed accurately and on schedule.
• Partner with departments and central offices to resolve accounting questions, improve transaction accuracy, and provide guidance on appropriate accounting treatment.
• Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, strengthen internal controls, reduce manual work, and improve consistency across general ledger operations.
• Assist with system implementations, upgrades, testing, reporting improvements, and other finance transformation initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

Accountants, III: Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) plus 6 years or a master’s (or equivalency) plus 4 years of directly related work experience.

Equivalency Statement: One year of higher education can substitute for one year of directly related work experience (e.g., bachelor’s degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).

Preferences

• Experience preparing and reviewing accruals, allocations, eliminations, reconciliations, correcting entries, and other month-end or year-end close entries.
• System implementation and process improvement experience.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, formulas, data validation, and analysis of large data sets.

Pay

$72,000 – $77,000

Schedule

Full Time; Hybrid, Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm