What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accountant III position at University of Houston?
Department: Facilities Business Services
Salary: Commesurate with Experience/Education
Description
Performs professional accounting work involving the recording, analysis and reporting of financial data in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and federal, state, university and NACUBO guidelines, in a major business area, such as student billing system, Federal Title IV programs, or General Accounting.
Requires a minimum of three (3) years of directly job-related experience.
All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check.
The policy of the University of Houston-System and its universities is to ensure equal opportunity in all its educational programs and activities, and all terms and conditions of employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, military status, genetic information, sex (including gender and pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or status, or gender expression, except where such a distinction is required by law.
Salary: Commesurate with Experience/Education
Description
Performs professional accounting work involving the recording, analysis and reporting of financial data in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and federal, state, university and NACUBO guidelines, in a major business area, such as student billing system, Federal Title IV programs, or General Accounting.
- Maintains accounts in a major business area, including table maintenance, submission, reconciliation of data, account reviews and corrections.
- Ensures that all system-related transactions are made in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and federal, state, university and NACUBO guidelines.
- Research complex issues and transactions and responds to customer accounting inquiries that cannot be resolved by junior staff.
- Assists college/department business administrators with questions relating to the accounting activity.
- Conducts contract compliance review to ensure adherence to terms and conditions of agreements.
- Provides research information for special projects, reviews financial transactions, and resolves issues relating to reports to state and/or federal agencies.
- Serves as mentor to new employees and coordinates office activities in the manager's absence.
- Reviews departmental accounting practices to ensure compliance with guidelines; conducts review of department cash handling practices; conducts reviews of cash incident reports; follows up on cash deposit discrepancies; and recommends corrections and best practices.
- Performs other job-related duties as required.
Requires a minimum of three (3) years of directly job-related experience.
All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check.
The policy of the University of Houston-System and its universities is to ensure equal opportunity in all its educational programs and activities, and all terms and conditions of employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, military status, genetic information, sex (including gender and pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or status, or gender expression, except where such a distinction is required by law.
