Fiscal Technician

About the role

The Student Accounts Office provides professional, efficient, and effective payment, deposit, and receivable collection services to students, parents, faculty, and staff, and maintains internal controls to ensure associated financial transactions are accurately processed and proper records are maintained.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for analyzing and assuring payments to the university are processed correctly, securely, and in a timely manner.
• This includes processing of student and department payments received via cash, credit card, remote deposit, wire transfers, EDI, ACH or other methods that require manual entry into the accounts.
• If processing of credit card transactions is involved, following university and payment card industry guidelines is required.
• For cash deposit, this position is responsible for transporting cash to the bank.
• The position is also responsible for reconciling cashiering work completed by the other Fiscal Technician;
• Serves as point person for research and resolving reconciling items for various clearing accounts;
• Prepares daily accounting entries in accordance with state regulations, CAPP manual, and month-end deadlines related to cash receipts;
• Conducts research requests and answers questions for management and external customers (other GMU departments and vendors);
• and Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Experience in a student accounts or accounts receivable office, or an accounting background;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills;
• Skill in the use of complex accounting systems, Excel, and other applications;
• Ability to key large quantities of data quickly, and with a high degree of accuracy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field;
• Some accounting-related experience with significant reconciling and transaction analysis (typically two or more years);
• Familiarity with Ellucian Banner and Touchnet or similar systems.