Accountant

Summary

The Accountant performs professional accounting and administrative work including processing and approving financial transactions, preparing reconciliations, and ensuring compliance with financial policies and procedures. As a key member of FSO, you will assume a meaningful role in sustaining financial integrity and establishing best practices for financial reporting and accounting transactions.

Responsibilities and Essential Duties

• Independently perform diversified accounting related activities to Governmental-type funds of the university.
  
• Perform month-end and fiscal year-end closing activities, including the preparation of work papers for the annual external audit.
  
• Perform regular reconciliation duties including, but not limited to, general ledger cash accounts.
  
• Research and resolve reconciling items in a timely manner with minimal guidance.
  
• Assist campus constituents as needed with financial matters.
  
• Approve financial transactions in workflow queues.
  
• Maintain the Chart of Accounts, which includes the creation of new indexes, funds, organizations, rule classes and account codes.
  
• Prepare and submit monthly sales and use tax remittances and the annual return.
  
• Evaluate and document current accounting and business processes and policies and recommend changes.
  
• Perform various interfaces on a daily, monthly, and quarterly basis.
  
• Administer Senior Design, Enterprise, and Gift projects from account set-up to financial closeout.
  
• Perform analytical reviews and variance analysis for administrators as requested.
  
• Review, monitor and maintain appropriate internal controls over financial transactions.
  
• Act as the liaison with the university's financial institutions and credit card processors.
  
• Maintain contact with all cashiering locations on campus.
  
• Participate on the team responsible for the development of the university facilities and administrative cost rate proposal.
  
• Participate in training/workshops for campus constituents.
  
• Seek new ways to improve efficiency and commit to learning about continuous improvement strategies and applying them to everyday work. Actively engage in university continuous improvement initiatives.
  
• Other duties as assigned.
  
• Apply safety-related knowledge, skills, and practices to everyday work.
  
  

Required Education, Certifications, Licensures

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business, Finance and/or a related field from an accredited college or university, or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired.

Required Experience

• Minimum of two (2) years of work experience in accounting or a related field.
  
• Excellent computer skills including experience using advanced features of spreadsheets and proficiency with using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Power Point
  

Desirable Education and/or Experience

* Professional experience in Higher Education or similar Non-Profit.
* Experience extracting and analyzing data/developing reports from computerized accounting systems.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities

* Excellent interpersonal, customer service, written/oral communication, and presentation skills.
* Demonstrated ability to perform detail-oriented work in a fast-paced environment with the highest standards of accuracy.
* Demonstrated ability to maintain the security and confidentiality of sensitive data.
* Demonstrated ability to work independently and take initiative to solve problems.
* Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team and maintain constructive and cooperative relationships.
* Demonstrated ability to adjust to constantly changing priorities in a friendly, professional manner and complete tasks timely.
* Demonstrated ability to follow projects and issues to completion.
* Demonstrated commitment to contribute to a safe work environment.
* Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively across cultural boundaries and work harmoniously with diverse groups of students, faculty, and staff.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities

Demonstrated success in working with persons with a wide variety of personal characteristics and viewpoints.

Work Environment and/or Physical Demands

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

Required Training and Other Conditions of Employment

Every employee at Michigan Technological University will receive the following 4 required trainings; additional training may be required by the department.

Required University Training:

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  Employee Safety Overview

  
  
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  Anti-Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation Training

  
  
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  Annual Data Security Training

  
  
• Annual Title IX Training

Background Check:

Offers of employment are contingent upon and not considered finalized until the required background check has been performed and the results received and assessed.

Other Conditions of Employment:

Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without the need of an employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of your appointment, and maintain eligibility without sponsorship throughout your appointment.

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FLSA Status

Exempt

Pay Rate/Salary

Negotiable. The final salary will depend on experience and qualifications.

Title of Position Supervisor

Director of General Accounting and Banking Services

Posting Type

Dependent on Funding