Accounting Assistant Manager/Team Lead Current MSU Employees Only

Montana State University•Bozeman, MT

About The Position

Duties And Responsibilities Primary duties include: Lead and manage a team of finance professionals, sustaining an effective, high-performing team that provides excellent customer service to client departments. Ensure the smooth and efficient flow of work through the team and clear communications with client units, providing accurate services in a highly responsive manner. Ensure accounting is compliant with state and federal rules, generally accepted accounting principles, governmental accounting, and financial reporting standards. Research and make judgments and interpretations on policy and compliance questions with support from other team leads and management structure. Ensure the quality of the team’s work: auditing, reviewing, and approving reports, corrections, invoices, payments, and other transactions as needed. Develop and lead training sessions for staff amongst the client user groups and provide direct support and training for new hires throughout the client user groups regarding accounting procedures. Develop and maintain thorough documentation of procedures for the team. Develop and maintain knowledge of client units sufficient to understand goals. Service to Clients Provide excellent customer service in accordance with MSU’s Service Excellence culture. Provide accurate financial information to client units, assisting with questions, communications, transactions, reports, policy interpretations, etc. as needed. Physical Demands To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations. The requirements listed in this description are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Work for long periods of time at a computer or talking on the telephone.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage a team of finance professionals.
Ensure smooth and efficient workflow and clear communications with client units.
Ensure accounting compliance with regulations and standards.
Research and interpret policy and compliance questions.
Ensure the quality of the team’s work.
Develop and lead training sessions.
Develop and maintain thorough documentation of procedures.
Develop and maintain knowledge of client units.
Provide excellent customer service.
Provide accurate financial information to client units.