Accountant 1

University of Miami; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 52,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Tuition remission

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

The University of Miami is seeking an Accountant 1 to oversee the department's internal accounting and reporting functions and assist management with all fiscal functions, including budget formulation and monitoring of accounts to ensure policy compliance and available funds.

Key duties include preparing financial statements, analyzing trends and variances, and ensuring accurate journal entries and reconciliations. Strong Excel skills and collaborative teamwork are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field required.
• Minimum 1 year of relevant experience required.
• Learning Agility: ability to learn new procedures and adapt to changing priorities.
• Teamwork: ability to work collaboratively with others.
• Excellent Excel skills required.
• Strong accounting skills and ability to work in a complex environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Prepares balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other financial reports.
• Analyzes trends, costs, revenues, and obligations to predict future revenues and expenses.
• Reports finances to management and suggests resource utilization and budget forecasts.
• Verifies journal vouchers and accounting classifications.
• Examines and reconciles expenditure and revenue accounts.
• Reviews and approves reimbursements, requisitions, and purchase orders.
• Assists with year-end process including accrual entries.
• Develops and monitors fiscal reports and budgets; identifies variances.
• Interacts with auditors and provides documentation.
• Prepare reports and variance analysis as needed.

Skills

Strong accounting skills

Excel skills

Communication

Teamwork

Learning Agility

Technical Proficiency

Ability to manage multiple tasks

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Tools

Excel

Workday ERP

Office software

Job description

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 timeEmployee Type:Staff