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Accountant IV (Inst)
Job Group: Finance
Job Subgroup: Accounting, Financial Operations, and Reporting
Salary Range (Annual):
24: $63,800-130,240 Employee Category: Academic Staff
Job Code: FN030
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Job Summary:
Oversees campus-wide finance initiatives and manages complex finance projects. Provides management oversight of all accounting related operational activities for the institution. Performs complex accounting duties, prepares financial and statistical reports, delivers training to others, and develops and documents controls for accounting systems to ensure the accurate recording and reporting of the institutions' financial transactions.
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Job Responsibilities:
- Leads or assists with the implementation of campus-wide finance initiatives, programs, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with applicable rules and regulations
- Leads and executes the accurate development, organization, preparation, and updating of complex financial data, journals, accounts, ledgers, and reports for various financial needs within the enterprise resource planning (ERP) financial system
- Prepares and analyzes institution wide financial reports, data and records, identifies discrepancies, investigates, and recommends solutions as needed
- Maintains ERP automated financial systems, and develops, and documents controls to ensure system reliability and data integrity
- Performs complex accounting and auditing reconciliations, journal entries, schedules, and reports
- Serves as subject matter experts to leadership and institutional stakeholders regarding accounting and financial operations, policies, and procedures
- Develops and facilitates trainings and provides financial guidance to management and staff
- Provides financial data for the state financial statements
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Education:
Bachelor's Degree Preferred Minimum
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FLSA Status:
Exempt
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Institution Job:
Yes
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Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees:
No
- Employee Category:
Academic Staff
- Scaled Job:
No
- Salary Range (Annual):
24: $63,800-130,240
- Job Code:
FN030: Accountant IV (Inst)
- Link directly to this job title: https://hr.wisc.edu/standard-job-descriptions/?q=FN030