UNIV - Capital Projects and Leases Manager - Controllers Office

MUSC (Med. Univ of South Carolina)•Charleston, SC

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About The Position

Leads a team responsible for university-wide accounting, capital budgeting, leasing, and construction-in-progress (CIP) reporting. Ensures accurate and timely financial close, debt service management, audit, and compliance with State and University requirements. Oversees policy and procedure development, prepares decision-ready analyses for leadership and the Board of Trustees, and directs workflows across Finance, Facilities/Construction, and Treasury to support safe, sound, and transparent fiscal management. Manages a team of employees that perform general accounting functions or a major functional area within an agency's financial system, including capital projects, debt service, leases, and construction-in-progress (CIP). Ensures the accurate documentation of all financial transactions and the timely payment and receipt of all moneys. Recommends and assists in developing and implementing agency policies and procedures related to the areas in financial management. Recommends and prepares drafts of legislative changes to statutes relative to licensing procedures. Approves budgetary adjustments and new personnel position requests; monitors agency patterns of expenditure. Approves allocations, allotment recommendations, and fund transfers. Determines compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Supervises activities of teams conducting bank examinations; determines work assignments of other examiners; reviews work of other examiners and results of examination. Directs the development, preparation, and compilation of financial data for reporting. Determines whether policies of the bank's board of directors are conducive to safe and sound banking. Confers with utility and transportation company officials regarding results of compliance audits, overall accounting policies and procedures, rate cases, and other analyses of financial records. Directs the workflow of interdepartmental financial activity. Directs fiscal management activities; prepares financial reports; establishes accounts; prepares budget, income, and expense reports.

Requirements

A bachelor's degree with accounting courses and five years professional experience in a related area such as accounting, auditing, banking or finance.
Computer literacy.

Nice To Haves

CPA, Bachelor's degree with accounting coursework (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
5+ years of professional experience in accounting, auditing, banking, or finance.
3+ years of construction/capital projects experience; university or public-sector experience preferred.
Public-sector/university fund accounting experience; strong knowledge of GAAP/GASB (incl. GASB 34/35, 87/96) and CIP, debt, and lease accounting.
Experience with Workday (or similar ERP) and with State cash draw and bond/debt processes.
Advanced proficiency in Excel and data/reporting tools; strong audit readiness and internal control orientation.

Responsibilities

Develops and maintains monthly detailed construction/lease project status reports. This includes schedules for the interim financial statements, budget to actual statements, and monthly construction project expenditure and cash reports. Responsible for the classification of all leases as operating or capital leases.
Manage permanent improvement (capital) projects and lease functions to ensure proper approvals are obtained and to ensure appropriate funding of the projects. Prepare funding availability analyses for management.
Directs and is responsible for monthly and year-end adjusting journal entries for use in preparing the University Financial Statements. Responsible for other month-end and year-end closing activities, including, but not limited to, creation/preparation of work papers needed by external auditors and preparation of information required for the University's financial statements and annual report.
Directs and supervises the lease billing and payment activities, and the preparation of the lease schedule for all property leases.
Prepares the University's capital budget templates and the capital budget presented for Board of Trustees approval.
Reconciles and maintains all debt service subfunds. Assists with preparing the annual debt service budget. Reconciles activity in the debt service account on a monthly basis. Processes requests for debt service transfers to the State Treasurer and prepares all entries related to activity in debt service funds.
Ensure the EPMS process is completed fairly and in accordance with State and University requirements.

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