Accountant 3

University of Miami; United States; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Miami is seeking an Accountant 3 to maintain financial records, prepare complex balance sheets, and ensure that ledger entries are accurate. You will oversee, mentor, and assist lower-level accountants while ensuring compliance with university policies and safeguarding assets.

The role also involves developing budgets and forecasts, creating financial reports for taxes and regulatory agencies, and delivering analytical insights to senior management to support strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is required.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience required.
• Learning Agility: ability to learn new procedures, technologies and adapt to changing priorities.
• 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 for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Any appropriate combination of relevant education, experience and/or certifications may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Prepares complex balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other financial reports.
• Analyzes current costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to predict future revenues and expenses.
• Oversees, mentors, and assists lower-level accountants.
• Avoids legal challenges by complying with legal requirements.
• Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities and professional organizations.
• Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by analyzing account information.
• Creates financial reports for taxes, regulatory agencies, and stockholders.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and safeguards assets.
• Analyzes clinical provider productivity and deployment.
• Creates pro formas for faculty recruits and assists with retention packages.
• Participates in development of the departmental budget for submission to the Dean's Office.
• Works with leadership on new initiatives in infrastructure and workflow.
• Develops, prepares, coordinates documentation of financial analysis projects.
• Identifies trends and makes recommendations to senior management.
• Reviews payroll adjustments for funding changes.
• Provides analytical evaluation for forward-looking projects.
• Develops forecasting and reconciliation of accounts.
• Reviews reports to ensure accuracy and compare with plans.

Skills

Learning Agility

Teamwork

Technical Proficiency

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Job description

The Accountant 3 maintains financial records and ensures that financial transactions are properly recorded. This position safeguards the accuracy of entries to ledger accounts and reconciles subsidiary ledger accounts to the general ledger.

CORE JOB FUNCTIONS

• Prepares complex balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other financial reports.
• Analyzes current costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses.
• Oversees, mentors, and assists lower-level accountants.
• Avoids legal challenges by complying with legal requirements.
• Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
• Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
• Creates financial reports for taxes, regulatory agencies, and stockholders.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

Department Specific Functions

• Analyzes clinical provider productivity and deployment
• Creates proformas for faculty recruits and assists with faculty retention packages
• Participates in the development of the Departmental fiscal year annual operating budget for submission to the Dean's Office
• Works with leadership to strategically assess, plan, and implement new initiatives in infrastructure and workflow.
• Develops, prepares, and coordinates documentation of financial analysis projects such as budgets, forecasts, projections, expense performance, and presentations.
• Identifies trends and developments in competitive environments and makes recommendations to senior management.
• Will create and maintain MOUs
• Reviews employee distributions, maintains costing allocations, and submits Payroll Accounting Adjustments for funding changes
• Provides analytical evaluation for forward-looking financial or business-related projects.
• Devises financial forecasting and reconciliation of accounts.
• Reviews reports and ensures that financial information has been recorded accurately.
• Compares results with plans and forecasts and makes recommendations for adjustments.
• Designs and builds various models that summarize several different scenarios around growth and expansion initiatives or opportunities.
• Develops performance and productivity dashboards, models, or analysis.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field required
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience required
• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
  • 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
• Any appropriate combination of relevant education, experience and/or certifications may be considered.

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

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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

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The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.