Budget Financial Analyst I

About Texas A&M AgriLife

As the nation’s largest most comprehensive agriculture program, Texas A&M AgriLife brings together a college and four state agencies focused on agriculture and life sciences within The Texas A&M University System. With over 5,000 employees and a presence in every county across the state, Texas A&M AgriLife is uniquely positioned to improve lives, environments and the Texas economy through education, research, extension and service.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and process day to day budget transfers entries as needed.
• Prepares fee-based program monthly accounting entries
• Analyze agency leave accounts and process monthly entries.
• Liaison for on-campus department business administrators for accounting and budget entries.
• Collaborate on the agencies annual budget, organizing and analyzing data from Workday, and PBA reconciling to agency worksheets.
• Assist in the preparation of the annual budget, to include budget allocations, year-end tasks (cleaning up and creating accounts), and allocation reconciliation.
• Assist in the preparation of applications for federal appropriation/award funding.
• Review federal and state accounts for expenditures, balances, and encumbrances.
• Prepare closing year end account payable budget entry.
• Assist with review, reconciling and monitoring of agency accounts, including federal capacity award accounts.
• Receive and approve salary savings forms as submitted by agency departments.
• Reconcile and distribute salary savings funds.
• Prepares monthly FAMIS upload entries for the credit card fees and EDE service fees associated with the AgriLife Learn and Register platforms.
• Analyze financial/budget data and develop reports.
• Monitor and manage agency queue in Canopy for payroll and department correction documents.
• Assist and provide backup to Financial Analyst for County Programs with day-to-day agent tasks as needed.
• Setup and monitor cost share for agency accounts, to include federal capacity award accounts.
• Responsible for setup and closing of agency state, local, and federal accounts.
• Create, maintain, and schedule business object templates and reports.
• Reviews and prepares payroll funding shifts through costing allocations and payroll correction transactions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience plus an additional two (2) years of related experience.

Required Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Knowledge of word processing and spreadsheet applications. Ability to multitask and work cooperatively with others. Good verbal and written communication skills. Good analytical and organizational skills. Ability to work with large data sets.

Preferred Education: Bachelor's degree in accounting.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: FAMIS, Excel/Excel Pivot Tables, Business Objects, Workday.

Why Work at Texas A&M AgriLife?

When you choose to work for Texas A&M AgriLife, you become part of an organization that is an established leader in agriculture and life sciences with a wide range of capabilities to meet the needs of our statewide, national, and international constituents.

• Health, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance with Texas A&M AgriLife contributing to employee health and basic life premiums
• 12-15 days of annual paid holidays
• Up to eight hours of paid sick leave and at least eight hours of paid vacation each month
• Automatic enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas
• Employee Wellness Initiative for Texas A&M AgriLife