Capital Assets & Debt Accountant (Workday)

Wake Forest University; Winston-Salem (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Wake Forest University seeks a detail-oriented accounting professional to manage annual physical inventories of business assets and oversee capitalization and reporting in Workday. The role supports capital projects, debt portfolios, policy documentation, and cross‑campus collaboration to ensure accuracy and compliance with university procedures.

Responsibilities include asset data maintenance, reconciliations, training workshops, and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting preferred, or 3 to 5 years related work experience.
• Experience at an institution of higher education preferred.
• Experience with Workday Financial Management preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assists in accounting, administration, and reporting of capital projects and maintains strong working relationships across campus.
• Capitalize/expenses capital projects and capture data on newly created business assets.
• Maintain Construction in Process accounts, balance analysis, and roll forward.
• Manage inventory control including annual physical inventories of Business Assets across campus.
• Maintain and update Business Assets in ERP system with changes, adjustments, and deletions.
• Support debt portfolio operations and monthly reconciliations; assist with debt draws for capital projects.
• Develop and facilitate training workshops on financial project management and asset lifecycle events for end users.
• Provide campus end users with customer service and support within capital projects and business assets.
• Perform reconciliations of General Ledger accounts and document accounting policies.

Skills

Accounting principles

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Financial analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting

Tools

Workday Financial Management

Excel

Google Workspace

Job description

Wake Forest University seeks a detail-oriented accounting professional to manage annual physical inventories of business assets and oversee capitalization and reporting in Workday. The role supports capital projects, debt portfolios, policy documentation, and cross‑campus collaboration to ensure accuracy and compliance with university procedures.

Responsibilities include asset data maintenance, reconciliations, training workshops, and process improvements.