Brigham Young University · 10 hours ago
Financial Operations Manager/Assistant Controller (part-time)
Provo, UT
Part-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$38.25/hr - $49.75/hr
4+ years expBrigham Young University (BYU) is a flagship higher education institution devoted to faith and student development. The Financial Operations Manager/Assistant Controller is responsible for overseeing finance activities, including financial accounting, budget management, and expense management for various departments, ensuring compliance and providing financial analysis and forecasting.
Higher Education
Responsibilities
Provides financial analysis and forecasting for budgets
Transfers support to colleges and centers
Responds to escalated inquiries related to financial accounting, budgeting, and planning, and taxes, including questions about policies, programs, and process; system navigation/use; transaction/business process status or issues; etc
Reviews/approves common accounting transactions, such as: initiating an accounting journal entry; initiating adjustment accounting journal or reversal accounting journal entries; adding/deleting attachments to/from a journal entry; creating budget amendments; etc
Prepares and/or conducts initial review of account reconciliations
Prepares the monthly sales tax reconciliation
Supports the academic controller with budget and forecast creation and annual resource planning processes
Interprets accounting data and analyzes financial reports
Performs predictive analysis and provides any additional reports as needed for any of the areas assigned
Reviews/approves expense transactions for others, including creating and editing expense reports for AVP and AAVP offices
Reviews/approves procurement services, such as creating and viewing a requisition and receipt (multiple requisition types, receipt types)
Reviews transactions to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations and with university policy and procedures
Submit vendor contracts, invoices in university systems
Manages common accounts payable and/or accounts receivable services such as finding and viewing supplier invoices, generating customer invoices, depositing manual checks, etc
Resolves discrepancies and/or vendor or customer problems
Oversees cash and check depositing and reconciliation
Escalates inquiries related to business assets, gifts and endowments, and/or grants and contracts including questions about policies, programs, and process; system navigation/use; transaction/business process status or issues; etc
Provides common business assets services, such as updating business asset location
Performs annual capital asset audit
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or business-related area plus four years of experience in accounting or equivalent combination of education and experience
Financial analysis, budgeting, general accounting, purchasing, problem-solving, critical thinking
Proven ability to organize, prioritize, coordinate, and manage workflow to meet multiple deadlines
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Outstanding decision-making abilities, with the ability to prioritize and adapt to changing circumstances and demands
Ability to be consistently precise, accurate, and thorough
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
Professionalism, efficiency, and ability to maintain confidentiality
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with a diverse group of people across multiple levels of the organization
Intermediate to advanced Excel spreadsheet skills; proficiency in other MS Office products
Sound and thorough understanding of mission and aims of BYU
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints must hold and be worthy to hold a current temple recommend
Preferred
Master's degree in accounting, finance, or business-related area plus five years of experience in accounting or equivalent combination of education and experience
Familiarity with University systems and methods or demonstrated ability to learn and master new systems quickly
Benefits
401k. BYU automatically contributes 8% at no cost to you. Additionally, if you contribute 5%, BYU adds an additional 4% (Rehires may qualify for different retirement plans)
Employee assistance program, available to the employee and all members of their household
Tuition benefits after two years
Access to athletic facilities
Access to the library
Free on-campus parking
Free UTA passes for employees, spouses, and qualified dependents
Discounts at the BYU Store and for many events at BYU
Company
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private research university that seeks to develop students of intellect and character to continue learning.
1001-5000 employees
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