Associate Director Student Accounting, Billing & Financial Operations

About the role

The position is responsible for the management and oversight of all tuition and fee assessment, billing, and subledger accounting for over 650M annually. The position oversees a team that manages UNT's largest financial subledger and revenue source (Tuition/Fees Student Accounts) from initial assessment/billing, until the point that each transaction is submitted to the University General Ledger (GL) through the SF Journal process.

Responsibilities

• Maintains positive interactions with others.
• Provides professional, clear and accurate verbal and written communication.
• Serves as the student accounting liaison for all internal and external audits related to UNT Student Accounting.
• Partners with UNT Controller, Budget, and other financial stakeholders on all subledger to general ledger reconciliation and audit PBCs (internal and external audits).
• Supports the overall billing operations for all enrollment related student account transactions, including the maintenance of rate tables within PeopleSoft Campus Solutions.
• Collaborates with the AVP Student Accounting and department leads to ensure billing and financial processes are efficient and aligned with the strategic goals of the department and UNT.
• Serves as the key point of contact to campus partner offices in regard to student finance data.
• Maintains catalog of executive level dashboards which provide insight into Student Accounting key performance indicators as well as student payment trends.
• Serves as a functional lead (alongside other Student Accounting directors) on projects to integrate third-party applications with Student Accounting business processes.

Requirements

The preferred candidate will possess the following additional qualifications:

• Ability to analyze problems and develop solutions.
• Strong presentation, problem solving, critical thinking and project management skills.
• Strong organizational, analytical and planning skills.
• Ability to effectively demonstrate initiative and productivity in the work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and six years of progressively responsible experience in a student accounting, billing/receivables, reporting, or related business field or any equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Skills

• Knowledge working with large scale financial transactions and accounting in a higher education environment or closely related industry.
• Ability to lead financial operations involving accounting, reporting, and financial decisions.
• Proficient with complex reporting methodologies and functional expertise of ERP functionalities.
• Strong project and team management skills.
• Ability to drive to ensure student success.
• Detail oriented and function well as a working manager.
• Ability to manage complex workload with competing deadlines, lead a high functioning team through large scale projects and communicate effectively with students, campus partners and team members.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships across team, department and division boundaries to ensure that projects and initiatives are successful.

Benefits

Commensurate with experience

Pay

Commensurate with experience

Schedule

1.000000 FTE