Accountant I - Houston, United States - MD Anderson Cancer Center

MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Houston, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Systems Biology is an interdisciplinary department that is pushing the boundaries of cancer research by integrating technology development, bioengineering, data science, and systems biology.

We leverage our massive clinical resources and unmatched access to patient tissue samples to study some of the biggest questions in the cancer field, on topics that include premalignant progression, metastatic dissemination, and therapeutic resistance.

Our faculty members represent top-notch scientists working in diverse areas of cancer research and commonly use multi-omic approaches to understand the interaction of genotypes and phenotypes at single cell and spatial resolution.

KEY FUNCTIONS

Financial Management

Assist in the maintenance of forecasting, analysis, and financial status of internal and external sponsored, philanthropic and divisional research affiliated accounts.
Reconciles personnel and nonpersonnel operating expenses.
Reconciles revenue and quarterly interest.
Ensures timely and accurate posting of expenses and income.
Responsible for timely reconciliation of all financials.
Completes STAT sampling for all department accounts.
Monitors balances and track expenses for faculty PRS allotments. Auditing transactions for accuracy and conformance with institutional procedures and PRS expenditure guidelines.
Maintain an internal financial database to track sources of funds for all departmental grants and contracts, philanthropic donations, institutional accounts, and correlate with institutional databases to verify accuracy.

Report Preparation

Reviews and assist in analyzing data from institutional reports to identify trends and/or problems an formulate a solution to address.
Creates monthly reports ensuring all information is in balance with institutional systems.
Assist with preparing reports to aid in the annual departmental budget process.
Use OBIEE to run monthly reports and analyze data for departmental accounts.
Run requested adhoc reports as needed for the department.
Assist in preparing and analyzing annual Institutional Core reports for Research Finance.
Run overdraft reports monthly and report findings to Grant Program Manager and Department Administrator.
Use the Personnel Trending Report to identify changes in the distribution of salary and make any necessary corrections
Run the GL report and Free Balance Reports as needed for reconciliation of accounts.
Prepare financial reports and participate in post award meetings with faculty. Assists in creation of financial projections for faculty and attends monthly meetings to discuss faculty funding with Grant Program Manager and Department Administrator.

Account Maintenance

Request the setup of new FG30s and 80s as necessary.
Responsible for cost transfers, closeout requests, release of encumbrances and journal entry requests.
Prepare Remapping requests as needed.
Maintains log of all departmental accounts and the status of funding.
Assist with monitoring, auditing and initiating the reallocation of funds and transfers as necessary.
Maintain appropriate salary allocations on departmental accounts.
Initiate ePAFs for changes in source of funds for personnel.
Update Chartstring Attribute Tool (CAT) to ensure primary signature authority, delegate signers, and fund receivers for all fund groups are complete and accurate.
Initiate IDTs for payment of internal research related invoices.
Initiates Non-Salary Cost Transfer (NSCT) for approval as necessary.
Responsible for the clearing of deficits, close out and deactivate accounts when a project has ended.
Ensures suspense accounts are reviewed and corrections are made in a timely manner.
Serves as the primary reconciler on all departmental accounts.
Work closely with Grants and Contracts and Research Finance to provide the appropriate information for invoicing and follow up with other MDACC departments on invoices and payments received and posted.
Responsible for FileMaker Pro reconciliations and reports to Department Administrator for approval.
Makes deposits as needed into departmental accounts.
Assist with providing documentation for grant/account audits and asset transfers between accounts as requested.
Reconciles ProCard activity and makes appropriate transfers.
Handles billing and reconciliations for CCSG, CPRIT, departmental and institutional cores.
Assists in managing iLabs, approving members, requesting nongrant funding be setup, giving authorization to members and upkeep of personnel assigned to PI lab.
Assist in managing Cayuse for reconciling animal maintenance expenses. Other duties and special projects as assigned.

Education

Required:
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting or related.

Experience

Required:
One year of experience required with degree in Business Administration or related field. With a degree in Accounting, no experience is required. May substitute requ