Accountant 1

University of Miami; Avenue (MD); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Medical, dental, tuition remission

Job summary

The University of Miami/UHealth Department of Facilities is seeking an Accountant 1 for a full-time, hybrid role based at the UHealth Medical Campus in Miami, Florida. The position oversees internal accounting and reporting functions, supports budget formulation, and ensures funds are available to meet department needs.

Core duties include preparing financial statements, analyzing trends, reconciling accounts, and assisting with year-end accruals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field is required.
• Minimum 1 year of relevant accounting experience.
• Strong Excel skills and proficiency with office software.
• Clear written and verbal communication abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Prepares balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other financial reports.
• Analyzes trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to forecast future revenues and expenses.
• Verifies journal vouchers and accounting classifications for accuracy.
• Processes departmental invoices for payment and ensures valid purchase orders.
• Assists with year-end accruals and prepares budget analyses.
• Interacts with auditors and supports the audit process when needed.

Skills

Strong accounting skills

Excellent Excel

Communication skills

Teamwork

Learning agility

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field

Tools

Excel

Workday ERP

General accounting software

Job description

The University of Miami/UHealth Department of Facilities has an exciting opportunity for an Accountant 1 to work in a full-time, hybrid role based at the UHealth Medical Campus in Miami, Florida.

The Accountant 1 oversees the assigned department’s internal accounting and reporting functions and assists management with all fiscal functions, including budget formulation and monitoring of accounts, to ensure compliance with University policies and warrant availability of department funds at all times.

Core Responsibilities

• Prepares balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other financial reports.
• Analyzes trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses.
• Reports assigned department's finances to management and offers suggestions about resource utilization, tax strategies, and assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
• Verifies the accuracy of journal vouchers and accounting classifications assigned to various records.
• Examines and reconciles expenditure and revenue accounts.
• Reviews and approves all reimbursements, check requisitions, and purchase orders.
• Assists with fiscal year end process including entries for the necessary accruals.
• Develops, analyzes, audits, reconciles, and monitors fiscal reports based upon current and historical financial revenues and expenditures.
• Participates in planning long or short-term business objectives.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

Department Specific Functions

• Monitors, reconciles, and assists with fiscal administration for the department, including but not limited to budgets, funding, contracts, and purchasing.
• Responsible for processing departmental invoices for payment.
• Responsible for obtaining approval from Facilities Managers on all invoices prior to sending to Accounts Payable.
• Ensuring that all purchase orders are valid and accurate with sufficient funds prior to sending invoices to Accounts Payable.
• Work closely with outside vendors, contractors, and suppliers to ensure the department is current with all invoices/bills.
• Create requests for purchase orders, change orders, and close out unnecessary open purchase orders as needed, through the University’s ERP system (“Workday”).
• Responsible for performing the charge-outs/cost recoveries.
• Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards and identify trends and explanations for material variances.
• Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets; prepare periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
• Identify process improvement opportunities and assist with implementation efforts for departmental projects and initiatives.
• Interact with auditors in support of the audit process; provide documentation needed to auditors and answer follow up questions.
• Reports to management regarding the financial standing of the department.
• Prepare reports and variance analysis as needed.
• Review, investigate and resolve accounting discrepancies and irregularities.
• Record journal entries on an as needed basis.
• Assist in reporting year-end accruals.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required
• Minimum 1 year of relevant experience required
• Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Strong accounting skills
• Ability to work in a complex environment with the skills to manage multiple tasks and deadlines, establish priorities, set objectives, and achieve stated goals.
• Ability to work as a team or independently.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent Excel skills required.
• Any relevant education, certifications and/or work experience may be considered.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine.

As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Job Status: Full time Employee Type: Staff

The mission of the University of Miami is to transform lives through education, research, innovation, and service. A vibrant and diverse academic and healthcare community, the University of Miami and the University of Miami Health System ("UHealth") have rapidly progressed to become one of the nation’s top research universities and academic medical centers in the nation. The University comprises 12 schools and colleges serving undergraduate and graduate students in more than 350 majors and programs. Visit welcome.miami.edu/about-um to learn more about our points of pride. The University ranks No. 55 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges list and ranked No. 49 in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked the #1 eye hospital in the USA and offers some of the nation's premiere eye doctors to treat every eye condition for adults. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019. The University of Miami and UHealth have also ranked among the Forbes Best Employers and Best Employers for Women on several occasions, most recently in 2022. With more than 17,000 faculty and staff, the University strives for excellence, and is driven by a powerful mission to transform and impact the lives of its students, patients, members of the community, and people across the globe.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.