Financial Accounting Data Specialist

About the role

The Financial Accounting Data Specialist serves as a technical expert within Financial Accounting and Reporting, responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining advanced financial reporting and analytics solutions. This role supports the institution’s financial reporting functions by integrating and analyzing complex data across enterprise systems to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with GAAP, GASB, and regulatory requirements. The position focuses on enhancing financial reporting capabilities through data modeling, automation, and business intelligence tools, while providing meaningful insights to finance leadership. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, this role plays a key part in strengthening data governance, improving reporting efficiency, and ensuring the integrity and reliability of financial data used for institutional and external reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation, analysis, and distribution of recurring financial reports (e.g., monthly, quarterly, and annual) for department, university leadership, and state reporting.
• Support and enhance the preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP and applicable higher education reporting standards.
• Design, develop, and maintain complex financial reports, dashboards, and data visualizations using business intelligence tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, or similar) to support financial reporting, improve data accessibility, and communicate trends, variances, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Perform detailed financial analysis, including trend and variance analysis, to support accurate and timely financial reporting and explain fluctuations in revenues, expenses, and fund balances.
• Respond to complex and high-level ad hoc reporting requests.
• Extract, validate, and reconcile data information from multiple systems (finance, HR, Banner, etc.) to support comprehensive financial reporting.
• Ensure alignment between reporting outputs and official financial records and systems of record.
• Analyze large and complex datasets to identify trends, discrepancies, and data quality issues; communicate findings to finance leadership.
• Partner with leaders within the department to define reporting needs and deliver actionable insights.
• Design, develop, and implement new financial, operational, and ad hoc reports to support evolving business needs.
• Gather and analyze requirements to ensure new reports deliver actionable insights and meet functional and analytical objectives.
• Test and validate new reports for accuracy, completeness, and compliance prior to deployment.
• Create documentation and deliver training to promote proper usage and understanding of reports across the organization.
• Support and improve ERP reporting functionality, including system testing and optimization aligned with financial reporting needs.
• Enhance reporting automation and data accuracy through system optimization and process improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity and consistency across reporting platforms.
• Document and maintain reporting procedures, data definitions, and standards to ensure consistency and compliance.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting efficiency and reduce manual processes across financial reporting functions.
• Support internal and external audits by providing detailed data analysis, documentation, and responses to auditor inquiries.
• Ensure all reporting processes align with GAAP, institutional policies, and applicable state and federal regulations.

Required Qualifications

• Educational Requirements: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and a minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in accounting, financial reporting, or related functions, including experience working with large, complex datasets across multiple systems.
• Preferred Qualifications: Knowledge of higher education financial regulations and reporting standards (IPEDS, NACUBO, GASB); Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., nVision) a plus.

Shift/Salary/Benefits

Shift: Days/M-F (work outside of the normal business hours will likely be required of an employee in an exempt level position)
Pay Band: 12
Salary: Minimum $62,300.00/Annually
Salary to be commensurate with qualifications of the selected candidate within the established range (generally minimum-midpoint) of the position
Recruitment Period: 4/29/26 - Until Filled

Other Information

This position is also responsible for promoting a customer-friendly environment and providing superior service to our patients, students, faculty, and employees. "Augusta University is a patient-and family-centered care institution, where employees partner every day with patients and families for success."

Contact Information

To apply, please visit: https://www.augusta.edu/hr/jobs/