Michigan State University
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East Lansing, MI | United States
Job description
Student Life and Engagement (SLE) is seeking a candidate with strong leadership, supervisory, planning, accounting, and financial analysis skills to lead a team of accountants. The work pace is fast, responding to our supported partners’ business decisions, while complying with divisional and university process and policy requirements. This position is part of a leadership team that directs and assesses our unit’s performance and institutes continuous improvements to workflow and process, while ensuring staff well-being and growth by upholding divisional values. The position audits staff work to ensure accountability, compliance to process, standards, and policy. The position has responsibility for the development and leadership of assigned staff. Additional responsibilities are project management and process development and review, including gap analysis. Our team supports SLE’s Culinary Services and Auxiliary Sports Group Departments with combined revenues of $200 million. This position is located in the 1855 Place building in East Lansing, Michigan.
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All positions in SLE are designated as critical status. In the event of a university closure, modification, or suspension of operations due to snow or other emergency condition, persons in this position are expected to make all reasonable attempts to report to work as scheduled for the duration of the closure/suspension. If a person has an approved remote work agreement to work a portion of their normally scheduled work hours remotely, they may be called upon to work on-site to serve the MSU community.
Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a four-year college degree program in Accounting; three to five years of related and progressively more responsible or expansive work experience in supervision, accounting procedures and developing accounting controls, policies and procedures; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. May require certification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.
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Monday - Friday: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. May require some evenings and weekends.
MSU strives to provide a flexible work environment and this position has been designated as remote-friendly. Remote-friendly means some or all of the duties can be performed remotely as mutually agreed upon.
About Michigan State University
Spartans work every day to advance the common good in uncommon ways.Together, we tackle some of the world?s toughest problems to find solutions that make life better?from alternative energy to better food safety to breakthrough medical and environmental applications achieved through rare isotope research.We teach. We explore and we discover. We collaborate and lead. We innovate, inspire, and empower. We achieve our potential and create circumstances that help our students and others achieve theirs.We're good at it, and we've been at it for more than 150 years.The nation?s pioneer land-grant university, MSU began as a bold experiment that democratized higher education and helped bring science and innovation into everyday life. The revolutionary concept became a model for the nation.Today, MSU is one of the top research universities in the world?on one of the biggest, greenest campuses in the nation. Home to nationally ranked and recognized academic, residential college, and service-learning programs, we?re a diverse community of dedicated students and scholars, athletes and artists, scientists and leaders.In ways both practical and profound, we work to create a stronger, more sustainable, and more hopeful future for all.
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