Senior Accountant

Colorado School Of Mine • Golden, CO

16d • $75,000 - $93,000

About The Position

Come and join an engaging and highly collaborative team at the Mines Foundation.  We are looking for an organized and driven individual to use their skills to help us fulfill our mission of financially supporting Colorado School of Mines.  This role has an opportunity to shape programs and strategies to best engage the Mines community.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field
• Possess a minimum of four (4) to six (6) years of related experience in finance and investments.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications
• Advanced skills with financial systems and accounting software
• Ability to promote effective working relationships to accomplish objectives and build team support.
• Excellent customer service skills: anticipate customers’ needs and responds with creative solutions
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills; proven ability to communicate complex and/or sensitive data. Experience creating and delivering effective presentations with skill and confidence
• High organizational skills and ability to multi-task, prioritize tasks, meet deadlines
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy with data
• Ability to interpret and translate procedures and guidelines to evaluate complex problems and complicated challenges to provide solutions and resolve problems to achieve broad objectives
• Plans, designs, carries out projects/tasks meeting objectives and deadlines.
• Embody the core values of CSMF: mutual support, integrity, respect, service

Nice To Haves

• CPA designation highly preferred

Responsibilities

• Organizing and updating financial records and management of Investments.
• Prepares and analyzes reports on specified transactions and investments.
• Prepare monthly financial statements for Oredigger Assets & CSMF Property Management Corp.
• Work with Mines Venture Fund on financial reporting.
• Perform audits on financial documents to ensure accuracy.
• Demonstrates strong not-for-profit and other U.S. GAAP accounting knowledge and experience to apply in the preparation and consolidation of the monthly financial statements
• Ensure compliance with financial policies and procedures
• Prepares and reviews journal entries and complex underlying supporting schedules and documents with the ability to explain such analysis to non- financial staff
• Review and analyze daily investment activity
• Record investment activity in appropriate schedules
• Performs reconciliations of investment accounts to the investment statements, general ledger and OCIO to confirm accuracy. Analyze variances
• Prepare monthly financial statements for OreDigger Assets and CSMF Property Management Corp.
• Work with the Mines Venture Fund to ensure financial statements are recorded correctly and information is transferred between entities
• Work with Investment manager to obtain quarterly estimates
• Assists with year-end audit by providing information at the auditor’s request
• Performs other operational duties to assist with internal controls
• Assists with monthly close and cash reconciliation as needed
• Designs and implements advanced systems to fit the organization’s needs
• Analyzes, compares and interprets facts and figures; must be able to identify and solve unstructured problems
• Prepares and analyzes various year-end reports for Finance staff in connection with 990 and 990T filings
• Complete investment F/S Notes
• Works collaboratively with the IT department to develop and maintain the integration of the systems used by F&A
• Reviews the month end close
• Contribute to team efforts overall by accomplishing related tasks and special projects as needed
• Prepares financial reports and presentations utilizing modern analytical tools (charts/graphs/etc.)
• Enhance spreadsheets used by the FA and other departments
• Upload investments file into the endowment management program
• Report on the endowment held by university - monthly
• Designs reports for endowment software
• Prepares the audited financial footnote schedules at year end related to endowments, UPMIFA

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision plans are offered and covered 85% by the Foundation.
• Short Term Disability (STD)
• Long Term Disability (LTD)
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
• supplemental Life Insurance
• 403(b) plan with contribution from the employer
• ability to participate in a flexible spending account (FSA)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees