Financial Accountant II — Reconciliations & Systems Liaison

Texas A&M University System; Corpus Christi (TX); On-site; USD 47,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi is seeking a Financial Accountant II to reconcile bank and clearing accounts, support essential accounting functions, and serve as a Marketplace co-security officer and FAMIS/USAS liaison.

The role reports to the Accounting Manager and involves training student workers, supervising activities, and assisting with year-end financial processes in a university setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or closely related field.
• Two (2) years of related experience in accounting field including one (1) year of Supervisory experience.
• Additional education and/or experience may be considered as a substitution for the minimum requirements.
• High School Diploma/GED and six (6) years of related experience in accounting field including one (1) year of Supervisory experience.
• Associate degree and four (4) years of related experience in accounting field including one (1) year of Supervisory experience.
• Master’s degree.
• Intermediate skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
• Excellent accounting and reconciliation skills and ability to multitask.
• Ability to communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and prepare high-volume account reconciliation.
• Perform advanced assignments and serve as a resource to recognize, investigate, and resolve outstanding items through entries, meetings, correspondence, identifying corrections, and follow-up.
• Work with other reconcilers to resolve issues.
• Serve as co-consultant on Marketplace.
• Processes E-commerce Applications from Departments that commit to building a Marketplace site.
• Provides training to departments on how to build a site and guides the departments thru the entire testing phase of site development.
• Serves as liaison for FAMIS/USAS. Including completing FAMIS exit checklists and USAS semiannual verification.
• Train the campus community on various training courses for Accounting Services including Departmental Correction Request (DCR’s), FAMIS, Canopy, and Marketplace.
• Serves as accountant for Institutional Advancement.
• Completes IA’s reconciliations, ATR’s weekly, Foundation Report annually, and the GDGE quarterly.
• Act as a consultant on accounting matters and assists various departments in applying financial data to solve operating problems.
• Responsible for training students on data entry to AMIS, batching, scanning, and filing
• Review scanned items and special projects
• Review batch logs to ensure batches are in FAMIS and Laserfiche
• Review resumes and set up interviews with potential student workers
• Complete the actions in Workday for hiring, discharging, change of source of funds for all work study students, interns, and temporary staff
• SEOTY: Prepare nomination and attend ceremony for Student of the Year. Attend appreciation luncheon
• Receive time sheets from students every two weeks, review them, and approve to be paid.
• Assist in the preparation of the Annual Financial Report
• Set up and maintain account controls and records including set up of New Account Requests, Account Attributes changes of responsible persons, departments, year-end processes, etc.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Accounting

Reconciliation

Supervisory experience

Communication skills

Multitasking

MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Master’s degree

Tools

FAMIS

USAS

BANNER

Laserfiche

Business Objects

Job description

Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi is seeking a Financial Accountant II to reconcile bank and clearing accounts, support essential accounting functions, and serve as a Marketplace co-security officer and FAMIS/USAS liaison.

The role reports to the Accounting Manager and involves training student workers, supervising activities, and assisting with year-end financial processes in a university setting.