Accountant

Located in North Carolina's third largest city, UNC Greensboro is among the most diverse, learner-centered public research universities in the state, with 18,000 students in eight colleges and schools pursuing more than 150 areas of undergraduate and over 200 areas of graduate study. UNCG continues to be recognized nationally for academic excellence, access, and affordability. UNCG is ranked No. 1 most affordable institution in North Carolina for net cost by the N.Y. Times and No. 1 in North Carolina for social mobility by The Wall Street Journal - helping first-generation and lower-income students find paths to prosperity. Designated an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, UNCG is a community-engaged research institution with a portfolio of more than $67M in research and creative activity. The University's 2,600 staff help create an annual economic impact for the Piedmont Triad region in excess of $1B.

The Cashiers and Student Accounts Office is responsible for maintaining accurate accounting of all monies collected at the University. This includes maximizing the collection of delinquent student accounts and loan receivables and ensuring that all monies collected are properly credited to student and loan receivables or appropriate departmental accounts and deposited daily in the State Treasurer's account with the University depository bank. The office also has responsibility for the accounting of all cash receipts and the reconcilement of the Banner Accounts Receivable system to the Banner Finance financial record system and for the maintenance and operation of the Banner Accounts Receivable system. A high level of knowledge and accuracy is demanded in the processing of all work to ensure a quality of work that will not be found to have exception when audited by the State Auditors. The department works directly with students and parents, under expectations of a high level of customer service, to provide: payment alternatives, financial advice, and to perform research to determine if options exist so students can be confirmed for enrollment. The department works with Enrollment Services to complete the financial aspect of the student's enrollment.

The Accountant position is responsible for oversight of cash receipt and student accounts receivable accounting. This includes applying knowledge of the theory and practice of recording, classifying, examining, and analyzing data and records of financial transactions. Work requires maintaining the integrity of accounting and financial data within the University's Banner Student Information System, for reconciling the Banner Accounts Receivable system with upstream and downstream systems and accounts, and for providing financial and statistical reconciliations and reports for both internal and external entities.

This Accountant position provides advanced accounting functions utilized within the Cashiers and Student Accounts Office. This includes properly updating and maintaining accounting rule setup for student accounting within the Ellucian Banner ERP system, the TouchNet Bill & Payment Suite, and ensuring that all accounting rules within other systems/ EFT software that may impact accounting transactions and reporting for the Finance Division are properly aligned with organizational goals. This involves high level knowledge of student accounts receivable and finance accounting data, tables, forms, rules and reporting strategy.

This Accountant position will document all critical accounting procedures and financial reports for the Cashiers and Student Accounts Office. This Accountant position will provide training to the Student Accounts Receivable and Cashiering sections of the office to optimize financial processes, provide effective use of resources, and ensure accurate accounting entries and adjustments. This Accountant position tests and maintains student accounting practices, processes and procedures, accounting forms, accounting rules, financial reporting and operational form setup for the Cashiers and Student Accounts Office and Accounting Services. In addition, this Accountant position is responsible for maintaining an in-depth understanding of tax laws and regulations to complete, verify, and submit annual IRS 1098T tax reports.

This Accountant position is responsible for verifying the accuracy of all assigned accounting reports. The position also ensures PCI compliance and documentation for implementations of new and existing credit card processing products, maintaining organizational settings, developing and documenting procedures, performing research and analytical tasks, and testing and troubleshooting when needed. This Accountant position will: ensure integrity and smooth daily operation of the billing, receivable and cash management processes; work closely with colleagues to recommend and review new accounting structures, operational improvements, efficiencies and report enhancements; provide advanced support for billing, accounting and reconciliations, receivables and cash management; maintain fee rules and Banner forms, resolve issues as they arise and audit for accuracy; interpret, analyze and reconcile reports and date output and analyze data output; and work closely with all appropriate campus academic and administrative staff and university system groups. This Accountant position regularly performs accounting research and analytical tasks at the request of the Associate Vice-Chancellor of Finance, University Controller and Assistant Controllers.