Senior Endowment & Fund Accountant

Morgan State University; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 86,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD seeks a Senior Endowment Fund Accountant to lead accounting for the foundation’s endowment (~$220M) and restricted funds across ~500 funds. You will oversee unitization, payout, donor-restriction tracking, and reporting, acting as the primary technical contact for endowment entries and software integration with the general ledger.

Responsibilities include setting up endowment funds, tracking balances, reconciling investments, and coordinating with

Qualifications

• Endowment and restricted funds accounting experience required.
• Nonprofit/higher-education foundation experience preferred.
• Ability to learn UPMIFA and unitization concepts quickly.

Responsibilities

• Set up endowment and restricted funds per donor agreements; define purpose codes and restrictions.
• Maintain unitized/pooled-fund accounting; allocate investment income, gains/losses, and fees.
• Calculate and post annual endowment payout under the spending policy; monitor UPMIFA compliance.
• Track restricted-fund balances, releases from restriction, and available balances; support reporting.
• Reconcile investment and endowment activity; prepare investment schedules and footnotes for audits.

Skills

Reconciliation

Analytical skills

Fund accounting

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting

Tools

Fundriver

Adavico

NPact FIT

Job description

Morgan State University is a public research university and historically black college (HBCU) in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Morgan is Maryland's designated public urban university and the largest HBCU in Maryland.

Please see Special Instructions for more details.

Please enter two professional and one personal reference in the References page of the application.

Posting Summary

Job Title

Division

Division Division of Institutional Advancement

Department

Department Fiscal Operations Office

Work Status

Work Status Full Time

Position Category

Position Category Staff

FLSA

FLSA Exempt

Pay Range

Pay Range Exempt

Salary Range

Salary Range $95,000 / year

Fund Source State Support

Job Summary

The Senior Endowment ; Fund Accountant is the team’s senior technical accountant, owning the accounting for the
Foundation’s endowment and restricted funds — the ~$220M endowment across roughly 500 funds — including
unitization, investment allocation, spending/payout, donor-restriction tracking, and donor-level reporting, and
providing technical oversight and review of endowment-related entries touched by the Staff Accountant (the
Foundation’s first point of contact for transactional AP/AR).

Job Duties

• Set up endowment and restricted funds per executed donor agreements; define purpose codes and restriction terms.
• Maintain unitized/pooled-fund accounting; allocate investment income, gains/losses, and fees (including the administrative fee) to funds.
• Calculate and post the annual endowment payout under the spending policy; monitor UPMIFA compliance and underwater funds.
• Track restricted-fund balances, releases from restriction, and available balances; support fund-usage and donor-level reporting.
• Maintain fund data (donor criteria and available balances) for endowed scholarship funds and provide those balances and criteria to Financial Aid/ EMASS , which owns the full scholarship application-to-disbursement process.
• Reconcile investment and endowment activity to custodian statements; prepare investment schedules and fair-value footnotes for the audit.
• Operate and maintain the endowment management software and its integration with the general ledger.
• Review endowed-gift setup and endowment-related entries recorded by the Staff Accountant, and partner with the AR Manager and Advancement on endowed-gift setup.
• Serve as the team’s go-to technical resource on fund accounting and restriction questions; informally review complex fund transactions before they reach the Director.

Requested Minimum Qualifications

Education:
A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or a related field from accredited college or university is required.
Experience:
At least five years of progressive accounting experience is required.

Other Preferences for Consideration

• Experience in fund, endowment, or investment accounting is a plus.
• Seven plus years of experience.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Strong reconciliation and analytical skills; comfort with complex, restricted-fund detail.
Understanding of restricted (donor) fund accounting; ability to learn UPMIFA and unitization concepts quickly.
Nonprofit/higher-education foundation experience with endowments and restricted funds preferred.
Experience with endowment software (Fundriver, Adavico, or NPact FIT ) and Financial Edge NXT preferred.

Posting Number

Posting Number ST01647

Number of Vacancies

Number of Vacancies 1

Job Open Date

Job Open Date 10/30/2026

Application Review Date

Job Close Date

Job Close Date 11/30/2026

Special Instructions to Applicant

Please enter two professional and one personal reference in the References page of the application.

Supplemental Questions

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• * How did you hear about this employment Opportunity?
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • EDULedger (formerly Diverse Issues in Higher Ed)
  • Higher Ed Jobs
  • Inside Higher Ed
  • Insight into Academia (formerly Insight into Diversity)
  • LinkedIn
  • Mid-Atlantic HERC (Higher Education Recruitment Consortium)
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  • Agency Referral
  • Website
  • MSU Careers Website
• * Did you obtain a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or a related field from accredited college or university?
  • Yes
  • No
• * What is the highest level of education attained?
  • GED
  • High School Diploma
  • Associates Degree
  • Bachelors Degree
  • Masters Degree
  • PHD
• * How many years of experience do you have in this type of position?
  • 0-1
  • 1-3
  • 3-5
  • 5-7
  • 7+
• * Do you have at least five years of progressive accounting experience?
  • Yes
  • No
• * Are you a current, past, or retired Morgan State University employee?Are you a current, past, or retired State employee?If YES to current, past, or retired STATE employee, please state the agency.If not applicable, put N/A.

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