Senior Accountant - Recreation Sevices
Position Summary:
Perform a broad range of accounting and financial analysis responsibilities to assure effective and compliant operations for the Department of Recreational Services.
Specific Job Duties & Tasks:
- Collaborate with directors to prepare budget information. Monitor accounts/expenditures; reconcile statements. Prepare accounting reports and other financial information for other units.
- Complete basic, complex, and non-routine recurring reconciliations and reporting following some pre-established processes, and developing new processes as needed. Significant involvement in month-end and year-end accounting/reporting.
- Performs some complex and ad-hoc analysis. Prepare specialized reports that involves establishing new processes. Use expert knowledge of financial systems .Make recommendations for new processes to managers and directors.
- Extensive knowledge of GAAP accounting standards. Contribute to implementation of policies and procedures related to accounting and reporting standards.
- Initiate complex specialized, and non-routine original and correcting journal entries. Reviews and approves non-routine transactions. Open/close accounts. Prepares and sends uploads to MAUI and troubleshoots errors.
- Provide training to staff on understanding financial systems and reports.
For a detailed job description, please email Alaysia McAtee at alaysia-mcatee@uiowa.edu
Recreational Services Overview
With a mission to provide a variety of recreational experiences that encourage active lifestyles, Recreational Services promotes and coordinates campus-wide competitive and recreational activities that bring in over one million visits annually. Our scope includes state-of-the-art facilities, innovative programs, and an impact that reaches students, faculty, staff, retirees, alumni, and even the community. We are your destination for recreation!
About the Division of Student Life:
The Division of Student Life is comprised of staff that embrace new ideas and thoughts, works together to keep our students safe, and provides them with life-changing experiences. The Division of Student Life includes 15 departments that span from Recreation Services to the Office of Leadership, Service and Civic Engagement and everything in between. We believe in working together as one team to achieve our mission: fostering student success by creating and promoting educationally purposeful services and activities within and beyond the classroom.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or an equivalent combination of education and accounting experience.
- Demonstrated professional accounting experience (typically 1 - 3 years).
- Working knowledge of and the ability to use accounting methods, processes, and tools for maintaining and preparing financial statements and reports.
- Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
- Demonstrated working knowledge and proficiency in use of Microsoft Office software applications (Word, Excel, Outlook).
- Understanding of the necessity and value of accuracy and attention to detail; ability to process information with high levels of accuracy.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Working knowledge of an organization's billing requirements; the ability to utilize the proper tools and follow accounts receivable practices and procedures.
Highly Desirable Qualifications:
- Working experience with University of Iowa business policies and procedures.
Application Details:
In order to be considered, applicants must upload a resume and cover letter and mark them as a “Relevant File” to the submission.
Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check and credential/education verification.
Job openings are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days and may be removed from posting and filled any time after the original posting period has ended. Up to 5 professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process. For questions or additional information, please contact Alaysia McAtee at alaysia-mcatee@uiowa.edu.
Equal opportunity/affirmative action employer
The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth and related conditions), disability, genetic information, status as a U.S. veteran, service in the U.S. military, sexual orientation, gender identity, or associational preferences.
Persons with disabilities who need assistance or accommodations with the application or interview process may contact University Human Resources/Faculty and Staff Disability Services, (319) 335-2660 or fsds@uiowa.edu. For jobs in UI Health care, please contact UI Health care Leave & Disability Administration at 319-356-7543.
