Accounting Manager

University of Arkansas • Fayetteville, NC

1d • Remote

About The Position

The Accounting Manager is responsible for leading the College of Education and Health Professions (COEHP) centralized accounting team. Core duties include determining appropriate workloads, monitoring the flow of Workday transactions, and overseeing the entry of state, grant, and foundation requisitions, travel claims, personal reimbursements, payment authorizations, budget amendments, etc.. As a primary advisor, you will guide staff on procurement, travel, accounts receivable and payable, and all other accounting related questions while ensuring all transactions remain in strict accordance with university, state, and federal regulations. Key operational responsibilities include: • Financial Oversight: Monitoring worktag balances to ensure sufficient funding for all expenditures and informing departments, when necessary, about budgetary issues; monitoring the setup of grant budgets posted by OSP for accuracy, working with COEHP’s Grants & Research team when budget revisions are needed; creating accounts within the college's reporting system and maintaining college’s worktag listing. • Specialized Billing & Registrations: Managing Medicaid billing for the Autism Waiver Program and maintaining college conference registrations and reporting through University platforms (transitioning from Registration Guru to Ideal Logic). • Reporting: Review the monthly financial reports prepared by the accountants for departmental deans, directors, and Principal Investigators (PIs) for accuracy. Reconciling Cash Net (credit card) & college conference registration payments and preparing weekly reports to be emailed to the conference administrators. • Training & Development: Leading the professional growth of the college by providing comprehensive training for new accounting staff and conducting both one-on-one and group training sessions for departmental administrators to ensure college-wide compliance and proficiency. This position is 100% remote but will need to attend in person meetings as required by department. Regular, reliable, and non-disruptive attendance is an essential job duty, as is the ability to create and maintain collegial, harmonious working relationships with others.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration, general business or a related field from an accredited institution of higher education or experience equivalency
• At least four years of experience in fiscal operations
• At least two years in a supervisory or leadership capacity

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in business administration, accounting, finance, or related field from an accredited institution of higher education
• At least three or more years of experience supervising/managing a team of employees
• Direct experience with grant and/or contract awards and proposals, university endowment accounting, and state and university procurement policies and procedures
• Experience with Workday, Quickbooks, Smartsheets or other ERP financial systems

Responsibilities

• Financial Oversight: Monitoring worktag balances to ensure sufficient funding for all expenditures and informing departments, when necessary, about budgetary issues; monitoring the setup of grant budgets posted by OSP for accuracy, working with COEHP’s Grants & Research team when budget revisions are needed; creating accounts within the college's reporting system and maintaining college’s worktag listing.
• Specialized Billing & Registrations: Managing Medicaid billing for the Autism Waiver Program and maintaining college conference registrations and reporting through University platforms (transitioning from Registration Guru to Ideal Logic).
• Reporting: Review the monthly financial reports prepared by the accountants for departmental deans, directors, and Principal Investigators (PIs) for accuracy. Reconciling Cash Net (credit card) & college conference registration payments and preparing weekly reports to be emailed to the conference administrators.
• Training & Development: Leading the professional growth of the college by providing comprehensive training for new accounting staff and conducting both one-on-one and group training sessions for departmental administrators to ensure college-wide compliance and proficiency.

Benefits

• university contributions to health, dental, life and disability insurance
• tuition waivers for employees and their families
• 12 official holidays
• immediate leave accrual
• a choice of retirement programs with university contributions ranging from 5 to 10% of employee salary

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager