Accounting Officer

About the role

The Accounting Officer position is intended to be eligible for benefits, including Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

Responsibilities

• Oversees fiscal results within specified accounting fund types across all UICOMP units.
• Reviews and identifies areas of potential concern, trends/problems, and or changing requirements regarding accuracy, compliance, or fiscal sustainability.
• Communicates and coordinates with unit administration regarding findings and recommended resolutions, procedures, and/or accounting structures as necessary.
• Prepares, interprets, reconciles, and/or distributes periodic financial reports.
• Provides interpretation and follow-up as needed.
• Oversees accounting journal entries submitted by UICOMP personnel.
• Reviews fiscal activity for accuracy and compliance with University policies.
• Enters transactions into University systems to record new activity or correct noncompliant entries.
• Educates and ensures submitters resolve compliance issues that arise.
• Perform simple financial analyses: Collect source information, review, and interpret data according to the most appropriate quantitative or qualitative methods, and prepare reports of findings.
• Train, mentor, and advise Admin Affairs staff and other UICOMP operating units in matters of data sourcing, fiscal analysis, and planning.
• Serve as back-up for UICOMP cashiering operations.
• Collect, record, and balance payments received at the cashier window for student and staff fees, including parking, printing, postage, and shipping.
• Serve as custodian of cashiering change fund.
• Prepare and process currency orders for change funds.
• Reconcile parking token sales and counts from the security/reception area.
• Tabulate Medical Service Plan payments received from UICOMP medical clinics.
• Track and reconcile credit/debit card payment activity.
• Prepare bank deposits and associated reports to facilitate proper revenue distribution among UICOMP operating units.
• Provides administrative support to the departments.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Perform duties listed in the lower level of this classification series.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications: Any one or combination totaling two (2) years (24 months) from the categories below:

• Course work in accounting, as measured by the following conversion table or its proportional equivalent: 9 semester hours equals two (2) years (24 months)
• Course work in any discipline as measured by the following conversion table or its proportional equivalent: 30 semester hours equals one (1) year (12 months)
• Associate's Degree (60 semester hours) equals eighteen (18) months
• 90 semester hours equals two (2) years (24 months)
• Work experience in bookkeeping, office support, or closely related experience.