Accountant

SLAC; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO: 18+ days per year

Health benefits

Tuition assistance

403(b) plan

Mental health programs

Free commuter transportation

Regular full-time position

Job summary

Stanford University's Bing Overseas Studies Program seeks a detail-oriented Accountant to join its finance and administration team at the home office. The role involves monitoring expenditures, reconciling transactions, and preparing documentation for a large global operation, including travel expenses and program funding.

Responsibilities include data analysis, budgeting support, and enforcing expense policies across BOSP programs and the NY Center.

Qualifications

• Associate degree plus two years of applicable experience, or combination of education and relevant work experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Excel.
• Understanding of accounting concepts and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Review, process, gather, and compile accounting transactions for completeness and accuracy with compliance.
• Identify, prioritize, and resolve accounting issues; perform preliminary analysis.
• Run and reconcile financial data across multiple systems and prepare basic management information reports.
• Identify and resolve journal entries and data anomalies; ensure adherence to policies.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Excel

Accounting software

Written communication

Project management

Education

Associate degree

Job description

Location: Stanford Main Campus; Hybrid (3 or more days/week on site)

Job Code: 4441

Exemption Status: Exempt

Heralded as a hub of undergraduate innovation, the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) creates and sustains meaningful interactions between students and faculty both within and outside the classroom. As a collaborative team member of VPUE, you have a unique opportunity to advance and support programs that touch and enhance the lives of every undergraduate student at Stanford.

About the Bing Overseas Studies Program

The Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) provides transformative educational experiences that inspire students to embrace new challenges in complex global settings. Even far away from campus, students are mentored and challenged by some of their favorite Stanford professors. Stanford faculty members are central to the BOSP mission, providing instruction and oversight for all BOSP academic programs and are supported by a dedicated staff of over 50 professionals working on Stanford’s campus and abroad. Beyond our home office operations, BOSP maintains sites at nine different centers around the globe and offers programming throughout the academic year and the summer.

The Bing Overseas Studies Program seeks a detail-oriented Accountant to join its finance and administration team at the home office. The ideal candidate will have strong accounting, organizational, and communication skills. In this role, you will monitor expenditures, reconcile financial transactions, analyze financial data, and prepare documentation for a large and complex global operation.

Specific tasks include managing and approving expenses and purchase orders related to the BOSP Global Seminars, partner programs, the NY Center, and the home office; tracking and reconciling travel expenses and advances for BOSP faculty and staff; managing home office memberships; administering departmental P-card and T-card expenses; utilizing financial reports and databases from multiple systems to gather data and prepare reports, handbooks, and guides; assisting with the budgeting and funding process; enforcing business expense and travel compliance policies and procedures; processing student billing and stipends and resolving student account issues; monitoring the BOSP Finance email inbox; and other duties as assigned.

Completed applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning October 8, 2026.

Responsibilities

Core Duties

Review, process, gather, and compile accounting transactions anddocuments for completeness, accuracy, and compliance. Contribute todevelopment of analyses to be used for key activities or decisionmaking.

Identify, prioritize, and resolve accounting issues; probe beyondstated situation; identify underlying issues; recognize exceptions;perform preliminary analysis.

Run, maintain, reconcile, review, combine, analyze and validatefinancial data sets, utilizing financial reports, financial databases,and key financial information often from multiple systems. Assist in thepreparation of basic management information reports.

Identify and resolve incorrect journal entries, data anomalies,deviations from established procedures, and unusual issues.

Collect data and perform research on details of transactions.Ensure work complies with complex internal policies and externalregulations which may require interpretation.

Participate as a member of a project team and contribute tochange management strategy through communication and collaboration withothers.

Recommend, assist, test, or implement process streamlining,system improvements or work flow changes.

Contribute to development and maintenance of desktop proceduresand process documentation for area of responsibility.

Serve as a liaison to other departments to resolveaccounting-related issues.

May train, coach, and review the work of other staff, as needed.Contribute primarily through applying individual expertise.

Associate degree plus two years of applicable experience, orcombination of education and relevant work experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Proficiency in basic business applications, such as MicrosoftOffice; user knowledge of Excel.

Basic knowledge of accounting systems and the internet; computerliteracy.

Understanding of and ability to apply accounting skills andconcepts.

Ability to draft professional e-mails, memos, business letters,and reports, and to clearly and effectively communicate information tointernal audiences and client groups.

Ability to learn project management skills and to participate aspartof a project team.

• Pay Range $93,000 - $103,000
• Pay Frequency Annually
• Fixed Term N
• Stanford Schools and Units Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
• Full time or Part time Full Time
• Regular or Temporary Regular
• Job Category Finance
• Posting Date 09/25/2026, 04:08 PM
• Grade G
• Job Identification 201211

Benefits that support you, and your future

• 18+ PTO days per year
• Health benefits start when you start
• Flexible work options
• $6000+ annual tuition and training assistance
• 403(b) plan
• Mental health and wellness programs
• Free and discounted commuter transportation
• Applies to regular full-time positions.

Notice to Applicants

The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classifications and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department or program needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.

Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of their job.

Stanford is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Stanford University provides job pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a particular job. The specific pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on a wide range of factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic work location, relevant knowledge, skills and abilities, relevant education, years of relevant experience, depth and breadth of relevant experience, and performance; further including but not limited to other business and organization needs such as the scope and responsibilities of the position, the minimum qualifications, departmental budget availability, and market and internal equity across the university, school/ unit, department, as well as job reporting relationships

Why work at Stanford

World-changing work in a culture of continuous learning

An inspiring community that values collaboration

High-quality health and wellness benefits that put you and your family first

Access to world-class education and career development, with tuition reimbursement, training assistance, and more