What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounts Payable Director position at University of Houston?
Department: Accounts Payable
Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education
Description:
Directs the accounts payable and records retention operations of the university.
1. Oversees all aspects of the university's operations for reimbursement and vendor payments to support university missions.
2. Acts as university representative in payables interface with state offices, other universities and software user groups. Serves as departmental contact to management within university.
3. Originates university payables policies and procedures; act as system reference source for interpretation of new regulations, laws and procedures.
4. Develops compliance programs and procedures to ensure the integrity of the disbursement process.
5. Analyzes, evaluates, designs and implements automated payment process systems and enhancements to improve AP operations.
6. Develops and conducts training sessions for users and employees.
7. Reviews controls and quality measures of the payments process. Analyzes extraordinary accounting problems to determine accounting solutions.
8. Ensures payables activities, both automated and manual, are recorded correctly into the university's financial reporting system; ensures payables entries interface accurately with the overall accounting structure.
9. Plans long and short-range objectives for the accounts payable and retention departments.
10. Administrates the federal reporting process for vendor's miscellaneous incomes.
11. Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
MQ: Education: Requires a thorough understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of an analytical, technical or professional discipline; or the basic knowledge of more than one professional discipline. Knowledge of this level is typically demonstrated with a directly job-related Master's degree, license for Certified Public Accountant, or equivalent formal training in a recognized field of specialization that is directly related to the type of work being performed.
Experience: Requires a minimum of five (5) years of directly job-related experience.
- Experience will be considered in lieu of education.
