Accountant I, Physiology

About the Role

Provide accounting and financial support for departmental and basic research operations. This role involves processing financial transactions, reconciling expenses, and ensuring accurate financial record-keeping.

Key Responsibilities

• Process purchase orders, requisitions, and other financial transactions.
• Review and reconcile departmental expenses.
• Process journal entries, funding source changes, and direct cost transfers.
• Reconcile OneCard transactions.
• Ensure expenses are accurately recorded and charged to appropriate funding sources.
• Assist with reviewing transactions for accuracy and maintaining supporting documentation.
• Resolve discrepancies and ensure compliance with institutional policies and procedures.
• Work closely with faculty, laboratory personnel, and departmental administrative staff to support day-to-day financial operations.
• Posts and maintains ledger accounts.
• Reconciles salary reports, bank statements, and general ledger trial balances.
• Prepares deposit slips and maintains cash control records, basic profit and loss statements, and trial balances of subsidiary ledgers and reconciling discrepancies.
• Calculates unit cost information and monthly billings for reimbursement of expenditures.
• Assists in preparing more complex financial records and operating reports, preparing less complex special reports, and analyzing accounting data for planning estimates.
• May assist accounting clerks by clarifying work problems, such as allocation of income and expense, closing, correcting or adjusting journal entries, preparation of special exhibits and schedules.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Knowledge of spreadsheets and word-processing software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with no experience; OR
• Associate's Degree or High School Diploma or equivalent with relevant experience.
• 2 years of accounting-related experience with an Associate's Degree; OR
• 4 years of experience in governmental and/or commercial accounting or auditing with a High School Diploma.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to apply mathematical reasoning to analyze data and identify discrepancies in financial accounts.
• Ability to exercise moderate judgment in application and interpretation of policy, procedures, or practices to work problems of well-defined nature.
• Ability to utilize ten key by touch.