Senior Financial Accountant & Budget Analyst — Hybrid

UT Tyler; Arlington (TX); Hybrid; USD 62,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Pre-employment background check

Job summary

The University of Texas at Arlington is seeking an Account III to manage complex financial transactions across Student Affairs. You will guide departmental staff, oversee cost centers, and prepare monthly statements and budgets for multiple departments with oversight of over $11 million in budgets.

You will coordinate journals, deposits, reconciliations, and funding analyses while mentoring a team and ensuring policy compliance across travel and contracting processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or similar discipline and 5 years of experience in relevant field, or nine (9) equivalent combination of education and experience and 1-2 years of supervisory experience.
• Intermediate skills in MS Office 360 with a focus on Excel.
• Aptitude to learn and master new software as needed for the role.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial information and data to Directors and other relevant staff in multiple departments within Student Affairs, including but not limited to Engagement areas, including Involvement & Engagement (Student Activities, Student Organizations, Student Governance), Fraternity and Sorority Life, Leadership Center, & Dean of Students, as well as Student Publications and the Student Affairs Print Shop regarding the status of their cost operations for their service areas covering over $11 million in budgets.
• Process inter- and intra-fund transfers, journal entries, and approval of journal entries to recover costs for all relevant departments’ costs centers.
• Process and track all deposits to relevant cost centers.
• Support point of sale, monthly, and annual billing polices and execute related process utilizing tools for Student Publications regarding ad sales and other sources of revenue, as well as the Print Shop’s intra-divisional financial processes.
• Plan, supervise, and develop the work of Student Affairs departmental administrative staff in the payment of invoices and other financial transactions (i.e. ProCards).
• Track deliverables and time left on purchase orders.
• Work closely with departmental service/cost center Directors and staff to identify the deliverables specified in the purchase order and authorize payments to vendors.
• Guide the administrative staff responsible for invoice payments and financial tracking of other types of transactions for relevant departments.
• Ensure monthly financial statements are run and reconciled for all cost centers and other projects with administrative staff.
• Guide the annual budgeting process for relevant departments.
• Provide Directors regular reporting on the current state of their cost centers, recommending best practices regarding management of funding.
• Support all cost center Directors in developing management for their areas by utilizing breakeven point accounting formulas to establish the total cost of ownership (hardware, software, services, and labor), potential revenue, and/or UTA administrative subsidy.
• Supervise the administrative role(s) responsible for supporting travel needs across the Division of Student Affairs, developing and implementing policies and processes in consultation with the Division’s leadership to ensure effective travel occurs among Student Affairs staff.
• In addition, supervise the administrative role(s) responsible for supporting contracting needs across the Division, developing and implementing policies and processes in consultation with the Division’s leadership to ensure effective contract arrangements are developed and completed for numerous events and programs, as well as ensuring contracts for goods, services, and resources are monitored for compliance, renewals and/or bid processes, and related items in working with vendors.
• Responsible for monitoring the budgets associated with each departmental and campus project, service, or resource managed by relevant Student Affairs departments.
• Forecast expenses and actual spend for all hardware/software/ personnel.
• Pursue and analyze data to recommend vendor changes and pricing improvement based on trend analysis.
• Perform other duties assigned, including but not limited to assistance with other areas’ financial needs during absences, vacancies, and periods of high demand, as well as requests outside of typical accounting responsibilities..

Skills

Financial analysis

Communication

Supervisory experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance/accounting

Tools

MS Office 365 (Excel)

PeopleSoft

Job description

The University of Texas at Arlington is seeking an Account III to manage complex financial transactions across Student Affairs. You will guide departmental staff, oversee cost centers, and prepare monthly statements and budgets for multiple departments with oversight of over $11 million in budgets.

You will coordinate journals, deposits, reconciliations, and funding analyses while mentoring a team and ensuring policy compliance across travel and contracting processes.