Senior Accountant

4 weeks ago

Tacoma, United States Pacific Lutheran University Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Work Schedule:

Full-time; Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm. Possible remote work per University policy.

General Description:

The Senior Accountant is responsible for most areas related to financial reporting and
supervises student workers assigned to support the accounting department. This
position addresses a multitude of accounting activities including preparation of
accounting entries, financial reporting, user administration, audit preparation and support
for budget and forecasting activities.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate, prepare, and review general ledger accounting entries for operations, auxiliary services, and capital transactions.
• Coordinate, review, and prepare work papers required for the external financial audit.
• Oversee preparation of monthly bank reconciliations.
• Review and process monthly interdepartmental charges.
• Review and post accounting feeds to the Banner Finance module.
• Monitor deferred gift activity.
• Assemble deferred gifts and other audit work papers at fiscal year-end.
• Administer access to Banner Self-Service.
• Provide Banner Web Finance training and budgeting support to the university community.
• Answer routine inquiries from financial managers and other authorized personnel regarding their account activity and/or balance.
• Supervise the activities of assigned student workers.
• Establish and maintain valid accounting code data and authorizations for Banner Web query access.
• Act as the first point of contact with third-party administrators regarding routine and ongoing deferred gift fund activities.
• Complete required annual surveys.
• Complete the annual Federal Student Aid FISAP and AOR.
• Supports the AVP for finance in preparing the University’s 990 tax return.
• File Office of the Insurance Commissioner annual report.
• Oversee rental property income and expense activity.
• Track stock gifts throughout the year.
• Review and approve wires, ACH, and foreign currency requests in the Bank of America Cashpro platform.
• Provides backup to the Accounting Assistant as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Willingness and ability to supervise the work of other team members.
• Knowledge of accounting theories, principles, methods, practices, and terminology.
• Strong computer proficiency with advanced experience using Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to work in a small team on projects and meet deadlines.
• Knowledge of posting transactions to a general ledger and performing queries on a database.
• Ability to organize and prioritize tasks.
• Experience delegating assignments.
• Flexibility to change tasks when needed.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a business-related field.
• At least two years of experience in the accounting field.
• Finalists must satisfactorily complete pre-employment background and credit checks.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency using an ERP accounting system with multiple system interfaces.
• Fund accounting experience.
• Accounting experience in a university setting or other other complex organizations with multiple companies and programs or cost centers.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting.

Work Conditions: Office environment.

• Overtime may be required, especially during fiscal year end close, audit prep, and audit.

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