The Role
Performs routine accounting activities under direct supervision, including preparing financial statements and reports, reconciling general ledger and subsidiary records, reviewing journal entries, documenting departmental budget reconciliations, processing payments, and assisting with adjusting and closing entries. Analyzes accounting records, supports reporting issue resolution, and recommends accounting methods and procedures as assigned.
Summary Generated by Built In
Under direct supervision, responsible for performing basic and routine accounting tasks involved in the preparation of accounting entries, financial statements, and reports as instructed. Prepares monthly financial reports and reviews information with department leadership.
Responsibilities
- Assembles data from books of original entry and controlling records, and prepares financial statements and reports pertaining to institutional activities.
- Utilizes resources and systems to input, retrieve or display accounting information.
- Performs reconciliation of institutional general ledger records to subsidiary records and state reports.
- Documents and prepares monthly reconciliation of departmental budget for leadership review.
- Conducts special studies as assigned and develops or recommends accounting methods and procedures.
- Prepares income and balance sheet statements, consolidated statements and other various accounting statements and reports.
- Analyzes financial reports and records, making studies or recommendations relative to the accounting of reserves, assets and expenditures.
- Reviews and verifies the accuracy of journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various records.
- Assists in the processing and reconciliation of specific reports and processing of payments.
- Coordinates with specific department in resolving personnel reporting issues and assists in the preparation of adjusting, closing entries and monthly/annual financial reports.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
- Knowledge of fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of particular field of specialization.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to be dependable and flexible in order to meet deadlines.
- Proficiency in applicable software programs including Microsoft Office.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance is required.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
- Knowledge of fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures in the field of specialization
- Strong attention to detail
- Dependability and flexibility to meet deadlines
- Proficiency in applicable software programs, including Microsoft Office
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The Company
What We Do
UT Health San Antonio™, one of the country’s leading health sciences universities, is the leader in south/central Texas funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The university’s schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, health professions and graduate biomedical sciences have produced more than 33,000 alumni. The $806.6 million operating budget supports four campuses in San Antonio and Laredo, and is the primary driver of its community’s $37 billion biomedical and health care industry. For more information on the many ways “We make lives better®,” visit uthealthsa.org.
