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Budget Financial Accountant
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What they do
An Accountant organizes and maintains financial records and prepares financial statements for companies and organizations. Works as a public accountant (prepares financial documents where public disclosure is required by law, such as business balance sheets and tax returns), management accountant (prepares financial information for internal use by a company) or government accountant (maintains records for government agencies).
$74,170 / year median in Texas
-2% projected decline
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Prepare and process day to day budget transfers entries as needed.
- Prepares fee-based program monthly accounting entries
- Analyze agency leave accounts and process monthly entries.
- Liaison for on-campus department business administrators for accounting and budget entries.
- Collaborate on the agencies annual budget, organizing and analyzing data from Workday, and PBA reconciling to agency worksheets.
- Assist in the preparation of the annual budget, to include budget allocations, year-end tasks (cleaning up and creating accounts), and allocation reconciliation.
- Assist in the preparation of applications for federal appropriation/award funding.
- Review federal and state accounts for expenditures, balances, and encumbrances. Prepare closing year end account payable budget entry.
- Assist with review, reconciling and monitoring of agency accounts, including federal capacity award accounts.
- Receive and approve salary savings forms as submitted by agency departments. Reconcile and distribute salary savings funds.
- Prepares monthly FAMIS upload entries for the credit card fees and EDE service fees associated with the AgriLife Learn and Register platforms.
- Analyze financial/budget data and develop reports.
- Monitor and manage agency queue in Canopy for payroll and department correction documents.
- Assist and provide backup to Financial Analyst for County Programs with day-to-day agent tasks as needed.
- Setup and monitor cost share for agency accounts, to include federal capacity award accounts.
- Responsible for setup and closing of agency state, local, and federal accounts.
- Create, maintain, and schedule business object templates and reports.
- Reviews and prepares payroll funding shifts through costing allocations and payroll correction transactions.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications Required Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience plus an additional two (2) years of related experience.Preferred Education:
Bachelor's degree in accounting.Required Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of word processing and spreadsheet applications.
- Ability to multitask and work cooperatively with others.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Good analytical and organizational skills.
- Ability to work with large data sets.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- FAMIS
- Excel/Excel Pivot Tables
- Business Objects
- Workday Why Work at Texas A&M AgriLife?