Accountant I, Pathology

Location

Type, TX | United States

Job description

Why UT Southwestern?

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. At UT Southwestern, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development that align with your future goals and help to provide security for you and your family. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more that are all available on the day you start work. UT Southwestern is honored to be a Veteran Friendly work environment that is home to approximately 800 veterans. We value your integrity, dedication, and the commitment you’ve made to our country. We’re proud to support your next mission. Ranked by Forbes as one of the Top 10 National Employers, we invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for growth.

Job Summary

UT Southwestern Medical Center is hiring for Account I, Pathology

Ensure adequate accounting support for 220 plus staff, faculty and trainees. Provides department-wide accounting support including creating (managing raw data), monitoring, reconciling, and reporting book-fund and grant award reports to management and faculty. Additionally, serves as department PeopleSoft reviewer level 1 and 2, and approver for CKRs, grants funds, expense reports, travel authorizations, inter-department and department requisitions. The position will also attend Project 9.2 meetings and trainings for various workflow modules to help disseminate information and updates to departmental management and PeopleSoft users.

Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s degree with no experience;
• Associate’s degree with two (2) years of accounting related experience; 
• High school diploma or equivalent and four (4) years of experience in governmental and/or commercial accounting or auditing.

Job Duties

• Posts and maintains ledger accounts.
• Reconciles salary reports, bank statements, and general ledger trial balances.
• Prepares deposit slips and maintains cash control records, basic profit and loss statements, and trial balances of subsidiary ledgers and reconciling discrepancies.
• Calculates unit cost information and monthly billings for reimbursement of expenditures.
• Assists in preparing more complex financial records and operating reports, preparing less complex special reports, and analyzing accounting data for planning estimates and other similar items.
• May assist accounting clerks by clarifying work problems, such as allocation of income and expense, closing, correcting or adjusting journal entries, preparation of special exhibits and schedules, and other similar items. 7. Performs other duties as assigned. 

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities 

• Work requires ability to exercise moderate judgment in application and interpretation of policy, procedures, or practices to work problems of well-defined nature.
• Work requires knowledge of spreadsheets and word-processing software.
• Work requires ability to apply mathematical reasoning to analyze data and identify discrepancies in financial accounts.
• Work requires ability to utilize ten key by touch.

Working Conditions

• Work is performed primarily in general office area

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This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code §51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information. UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.

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