Accounting Specialist

Florida International University is a Top 50, preeminent public research university with 55,000 students from all 50 states and more than 140 countries, as well as an alumni network of more than 340,000. Located in the global city of Miami, the university offers more than 200 degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels, including medicine and law. FIU faculty are leaders in their fields and include National Academy members, Fulbright Scholars and MacArthur Genius Fellows. A Carnegie R1 institution, FIU drives impactful research in environmental resilience, health and technology and innovation. Home to the Wall of Wind and Institute of Environment, FIU stands at the forefront of discovery and innovation. With a focus on student success, economic mobility and community engagement, FIU is redefining what it means to be a public research university.

Responsible for managing travel and expense process, including reviewing and approving reports for compliance, ensuring accounting accuracy, and preparing reconciliations and journal entries. Serves as a liaison to the university community by providing guidance and training, supports financial reporting and accounting operations.

• Reviews expense reports created in PeopleSoft for compliance with FIU Foundation, Inc. Policies and Procedures and State of Florida Travel Rules and Regulations.
• Prepare monthly reimbursement request for salary reimbursements that is due to the University and record journal entry. Reviews project purpose and available cash before approving employee expense reimbursements.
• Verifies all accounting entries are correct and accurate for travel and expense reports created in PeopleSoft.
• Creates expense report accounting adjustments or journal entries when errors are made or when requested by the Project Budget Officers.
• Monitor all submitted expense reports and work with the departments to resolve pending items. Send out monthly communications for items pending resolution or approval.
• Serve as liaison to the University community, addressing travel and expense concerns and inquiries.
• Provide travel and expense training to the University community to ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
• Maintains up to date policies and procedures for travel and expense reimbursements.
• Prepares quarterly reconciliations including but not limited to travel and expense accrual entries, salary reimbursement accruals and analysis of quarterly cash surrender values for life insurance policies.
• Serve as backup to accountants for Foundation and other DSOs as needed to provide support for the accounts payable, accounts receivable, and journal entry functions.
• Prepare financial reports, spreadsheets, charts or other special projects requested by the Controller.
• Responsible for creating and distributing the FIU Foundation quarterly newsletter for the university community.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or as directed. The omission of specific duties does not preclude the supervisor from assigning duties that are logically related to the position.
• Accesses confidential financial data including but not limited to salaries, and investment records of all Direct Support Organizations.

High school diploma or equivalent and three (3) years of accounting/bookkeeping experience; OR an equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience.

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To be considered eligible for the position as an internal candidate, departmental staff must meet minimum requirements of the position and be in good performance standing.

Before you begin the process, we recommend that you are prepared to attach electronic copies of your resume, cover letter or any other documents within the application process. It is recommended that you combine your cover letter and resume/curriculum vitae into one attachment. Attached documents should be in Microsoft Word or PDF format. All applicants are required to complete the online application including work history and educational details (if applicable), even when attaching a resume.

*This posting will close at 12:00 am of the close date.

Since 1945, the Florida Legislature has made a provision to give preference in the hiring process to United States war veterans in recognition of their military, naval, or air service who meet specific conditions. The conditions are as follows:

• Veterans with a VA service-connected disability
• Spouses of veterans with permanent and total service-connected disability
• Honorably discharged veterans with wartime service.
• Unmarried widow or widower of a veteran who died as a result of a service-connected disability
• A veteran who has served in a qualifying campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized, to include the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal.

Florida International University honors this policy and will comply with Veterans' Preference guidelines when filling staff positions. Any applicant claiming Veterans' Preference will be required to attach a DD214 with each application submitted for verification.

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