Senior Accountant I, General Accounting - Winston-Salem, United States - Wake Forest University

Description

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Job Description Summary

Job Description

Essential Functions:

• Co-leads the monthly and quarterly closing process. Responsible for maintaining, communicating, and ensuring deadlines for task lists and schedules related to the monthly and quarterly closing process. Assists with the mid-year and year-end close process.
• Maintains a comprehensive listing of all uploads. Ensures all uploads are received and posted during the closing process. Troubleshoot issues for internal finance users related to uploads.
• Review all integrations are appropriately posted during month-end.
• Review campus journal entries for accuracy before posting to the General Ledger and communicate needed changes to campus users to include training as required.
• Maintains the recurring journal entry process to include updates, task generation, and new setups.
• Responsible for review and set up of prepaid invoices.
• Ensures all financial transactions are correctly recorded and reported, including reviewing trial balance and fund champion assigned sections. Ensures all fund champion and trial balance questions are researched and answered promptly.
• Responsible for the timely preparation and review of various monthly, quarterly, and annual balance sheet account reconciliations.
• Serves as a backup for routine Finance Administration Workday maintenance for the general ledger.
• Serves as a backup for analyzing intercompany activity between Reynolda Campus and the School of Medicine and Reynolda House, including review of journal entries to record transactions between entities, monthly reconciliation of multiple swap balances, and monitoring of A/R aging schedules.
• Serves as backup for all daily banking functions.
• Provides customer support by fielding internal and external questions in the shared inbox for General Accounting.
• Co-leads system testing for Workday upgrades and enhancement functionality for cash and banking. Ensures cash and banking testing is complete. Assists with general ledger testing.
• Assists in facilitating finance classes or on-demand training needs for the General Accounting and Reporting group.
• In conjunction with the Senior Manager, General Accounting and Reporting develops processes to streamline and improve the efficiency and accuracy of recording financial activity.
• Assists with developing, documenting, and communicating financial policies and procedures related to financial accounting and reporting.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Education, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting and a minimum of three years of related work experience.
• Strong organizational and critical thinking skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office with moderate skills in Excel (vlookup and pivot tables)
• Ability to work independently and to prioritize workload; ability to manage multiple tasks under pressure and is highly adaptable to rapidly changing priorities; excellent time management skills; ability to organize personal workflow; recognizes that a multitude of deliverables may have to be completed with minimum notice and that time is of the essence.
• Comfortable with new technologies and proven ability to quickly acquire knowledge of new systems. Ability to understand system design and flows and utilize that knowledge to test and implement new functionality or improvements.
• Ability to analyze, interpret, and apply policies and reporting requirements; familiarity with sources for researching higher education issues preferred.
• Excellent customer service skills, requiring extensive contact with the campus community and subsidiary organizations.
• Ability to work positively in a demanding, fast-paced, team-oriented environment independently and collaboratively.
• Ability to handle sensitive information confidentially.
• Must be an initiative-taker with unquestionable integrity and a strong sense of professional ethics.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to the University's values and mission.

Preferred Education, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Experience in finance and accounting in a higher education environment.
• Experience with Workday Financials.

Additional Job Description

Note:

This position profile identifies the key responsibilities and expectations for performance. It cannot encompass all specific job tasks that an employee may be required to perform. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform job-related duties as may be reasonably assigned by the employee's supervisor.

To provide a safe learning and living community, Wake Forest University conducts background investigations and drug screens for all final candidates being considered for employment.

Wake Forest seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce and encourages qualified candidates across all group demographics to apply.

Time Type Requirement

Note to Applicant:

This position profile identifies the key responsibilities and expectations for performance. It cannot encompass all specific job tasks that an employee may be required to perform. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform job-related duties as may be reasonably assigned by his/her supervisor.

In order to provide a safe and productive learning and living community, Wake Forest University conducts background investigations and drug screens for all final staff candidates being considered for employment.

WakeForestseeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce while promoting an inclusive work environment committed to excellence in the spirit of Pro Humanitate.In adherence with applicable laws and as provided by University policies, the University prohibits discrimination in its employment practices on thebasis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, disability and veteran statusandencourages qualified candidates across all group demographics to apply.