Associate Manager of Accounting Services

About the role

The position ensures comprehensive lifecycle bond compliance, including mandatory reporting, regulatory submissions, and payment processing. Additionally, this role manages the University’s capital projects, leases, and property plant and equipment to ensure accurate reporting and asset protection.

Responsibilities

• Duties and Responsibilities

• 20% Supervision & Staff Development

• Supervise 2 full-time professional staff; review and approve their work product, answering questions, and streamlining processes.
• Provide mentoring, professional development opportunities and regular performance evaluations.
• Oversee workload distribution, hiring, promotions, leave request, and disciplinary actions.
• Review staff’s written procedures ensuring they are updated at least every other year or sooner if changes are needed.
• Foster a high-performing team environment while ensuring timeliness and accuracy as well as executing the Office of the Controller’s priorities and values.

• 10% Capital Projects

• Draw funds from the State for State-funded capital projects by working in the State’s financial system CORE and in Workday.
• Record draws from State and reconcile projects balances to CORE.
• Maintain existing reports and create new reports as needed in relation to life-to-date project financial transactions, ensuring information is shared with senior leaders and the Facilities department.
• Oversee the work of the junior accountant and fixed asset accountant related to capital projects and review and approve all the related entries, exhibits and schedules.

• 30% Asset Management & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), state rules, internal procedures as it relates to assets.
• Review reports, reconciliations, journal entries, accounting adjustments, assets entries and ad hoc bank transactions etc. for accuracy, timeliness and completeness for team.
• Analyze financial reports documenting year over year changes, anomalies, abnormal balances in the plant fund.

• 30% Bond Compliance

• Ensure all bond payments for principal and interest are made in a timely manner, and submit requests for bond subsidies from the federal government.
• Perform related reconciliations to ensure all payments are made timely from the correct worktags, and all subsidies are received.
• Maintain continuing disclosure compliance leveraging DacBond when appropriate.
• Monitor hedging derivative instruments and process payments should they become necessary, and review circumstances that could constitute a termination of the University’s swap agreement and propose related entries or disclosures.
• Maintain overall compliance with bond issuance.

• 10% Other

• Review the State exhibits for fixed assets and bonds.
• Compile and compute the schedule of operating and capital leases based on the University’s written leases (Lease Contracts) and payments.
• Calculate pledged revenue annually.
• Back up for GASB 87 and GASB 96 entries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 2 years of experience is equivalent to 1 year of education.
• Experience using an integrated financial system similar to Workday.
• Experience with reconciliations, both performing them and reviewing them.
• Demonstrated high-level proficiency in Excel.
• Professional supervisory experience.
• Experience with multi-tasking and problem-solving.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.

Benefits

• The University’s benefits package is comprehensive and offers medical, vision and dental, free RTD pass, tuition reimbursement, as well as a life and supplemental insurance plans, retirement plans and other programs, such as access to a long-term disability (LTD) plan.

Instructions to Apply

• For full consideration, please submit the following documents:
• Resume
• Cover letter describing relevant job experiences as they relate to listed job qualifications and interest in the position

Additional Information

• Professional references and their contact information will be requested from the finalist/s.
• At least one reference provided must be a supervisor (either current or former).
• Official transcripts will be required of the candidate selected for hire.
• Deadline Applications accepted until position filled; priority given to applications received by June 15th, 2026.