Grants & Contracts Accountant

The K20 Heart is a various community of faculty, college and group companions who domesticate innovation, generate analysis, and positively affect training worldwide. K20 is acknowledged for remodeling studying with a deal with range, authenticity, know-how innovation, and collaboration. Our mission is to advance management and studying by genuine experiences, academic assets, know-how integration, faculty and profession readiness, and group connections that innovate and remodel training. To search out out extra concerning the K20 Heart, click on right here. 

What’s in it for you: On high of your wage, you should have entry to a beneficiant advantages package deal that features: 

• 14 holidays every year and 18 – 22 hours of earned PTO monthly. 
• Insurance policy for you and your loved ones 
• Retirement choices that require no contributions from the worker 
• And rather more! For a listing of OU’s advantages, click on right here. 

What is going to you do: We’re looking for a Grants & Contracts Accountant to ahead our mission. This place will play an important function by offering accuracy in price range growth, monetary reporting, and sustaining monetary information for sponsored analysis applications. 

Important Job Duties & Features:

• Manages common accounting operations, displays the price range, acts because the liaison between the K20 Heart and different college, state, and federal companies, oversees sponsored applications monetary reporting, and maintains information.  
• Manages common accounting operations together with total supervision and path of accounting workers. Ensures correct and well timed processing of accounting knowledge to the accounting programs. Supplies path to the accounting workers. Supplies oversight to accounting workers in figuring out correct accounting classification and entries. 
• Prepares comparative historic funding and expenditure studies. 
• Inputs, opinions, and distributes varied accounting knowledge to departments and stakeholders. 
• Assists in complete opinions of budgets. 
• Assists in upkeep and updating of price range growth file. 
• Codecs and processes varied price range paperwork for distribution and publication. 
• Assists in price range preparation. 
• Supplies accounting companies reminiscent of account reconciliation, assertion preparation, account monitoring, knowledge upkeep, report preparation, technical help, monetary help, price range help, high quality assurance, and payroll coordination.  
• Creates studies to stability monetary assertion transactions to supply paperwork reminiscent of accounts payable transactions, deposits, and inter-university transactions. Paperwork any timing variations or reconciling objects. 
• Produces statements of monetary exercise primarily based upon month-to-month departmental enterprise that may embrace part financials, consolidated division financials, and money circulate evaluation. Notifies acceptable personnel of irregularities and obtains correct signatures of authority as proof of overview.  
• Screens departmental accounts, accounts payable transactions, and spending exercise. Prepares price and price range transfers. Prepares and enters requisitions and invoices for fee. Prepares the day by day deposit of departmental receipts.  
• Initiates price transfers between varied departments and repair items.  
• Maintains division’s monetary information, price range data, and different types of knowledge. Tracks funds, receipts, transactions, inner and exterior contracts, and agreements.  
• Prepares monetary studies to doc exercise, substantiate transactions, and report findings.  
• Supplies help to departments throughout the K20 Heart, principal investigators, distributors, and different workers in analyzing and sustaining acceptable funds for salaries and expenditures.  
• Performs monetary analyses for report preparation, to enhance departmental accounting procedures, and on the request of division head. Analyzes phrases of contracts to make sure compliance.  
• Assists within the annual preparation of the price range.  
• Ensures the standard of information. Analysis inconsistencies and conduct follow-up investigations or consults with acceptable personnel.  
• Acts because the payroll coordinator or backup payroll coordinator for the division or faculty.  
• Oversees the K20’s monetary reporting and associated monetary surveys. Could handle studies together with the preparation of year-end financials and different studies as required. 
• Performs varied duties as wanted to efficiently fulfill the perform of the place. 

 

Job Necessities

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Required Schooling and Expertise: Bachelor’s Diploma in Accounting, Enterprise Administration, or enterprise associated area and a minimal of 18 hours of accounting coursework, AND;

• 60 months expertise usually accounting to incorporate 12 months expertise in a supervisory function.

Abilities:

• Element oriented for accuracy of information and data. 
• Extremely organized and in a position to deal with a number of tasks and deadlines. 
• Means to speak verbally and in writing. 
• Means to construct rapport with college students, college and workers. 
• Means to oversee workers and talk instructions and expectations successfully. 
• Means to supply studies and full work inside deadlines. 
• Robust initiative to resolve issues in a well timed method. 

Working Situations:

• Sit for extended durations.  
• Talk successfully and pay attention.  
• Use of pc and reply phone. 
• Handbook dexterity.  
• Normal workplace setting. 
• Frequent publicity to stress brought on by deadlines and busy durations.
• Requires contact with different departments and college officers.  

Division Preferences:

• 72 months expertise as an expert Accountant.
• 24 months expertise in utilizing PeopleSoft.
• 24 months expertise in utilizing Intuit QuickBooks.  

Particular Directions: In case you are chosen as a closing candidate for this place, you can be topic to The College of Oklahoma Norman Campus Tuberculosis Testing coverage.  To view the coverage, go to https://hr.ou.edu/Insurance policies-Handbooks/TB-Testing.

Why You Belong on the College of Oklahoma: The College of Oklahoma fosters an inclusive tradition of respect and civility, belonging, and entry, that are important to our collective pursuit of excellence and our dedication to vary lives. The distinctive abilities, views, and experiences of our group enrich the training, and dealing setting at OU, inspiring us to harness our innovation, creativity, and collaboration for the development of individuals all over the place.

Equal Employment Alternative Assertion: The College of Oklahoma, in compliance with all relevant federal and state legal guidelines and laws, doesn’t discriminate primarily based on race, colour, nationwide origin, intercourse, sexual orientation, genetic data, gender id, gender expression, age, faith, incapacity, political opinions, or standing as a veteran in any of its insurance policies, practices, or procedures. This contains, however is just not restricted to, admissions, employment, monetary help, housing, companies in academic applications or actions, and well being care companies that the College operates or supplies.

 
Hiring contingent upon a Background Test?: Sure
Particular Indications: None 
Job Posting
: Mar 22, 2024