Accountant 1 (H)

Current Employees:

If you are a current Staff, Faculty or Temporary employee at the University of Miami, please click here to log in to Workday to use the internal application process. To learn how to apply for a faculty or staff position using the Career worklet, please review this tip sheet.

Accountant 1

The University of Miami/UHealth department of Facilities has an exciting opportunity for a Full Time Accountant 1 to work at the UHealth Medical Campus. The Accountant 1 (H) oversees the assigned department’s internal accounting and reporting functions and assists management with all fiscal functions, including budget formulation and monitoring of accounts, to ensure compliance with University policies and warrant availability of department funds at all times.

• Prepares balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other financial reports.

• Analyzes trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses.

• Reports assigned department's finances to management and offers suggestions about resource utilization, tax strategies, and assumptions underlying budget forecasts.

• Verifies the accuracy of journal vouchers and accounting classifications assigned to various records.

• Examines and reconciles expenditure and revenue accounts.

• Reviews and approves all reimbursements, check requisitions, and purchase orders.

• Assists with fiscal year end process including entries for the necessary accruals.

• Develops, analyzes, audits, reconciles, and monitors fiscal reports based upon current and historical financial revenues and expenditures.

• Participates in planning long- or short-term business objectives.

• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

Department Specific Functions

• Monitors, reconciles, and assists with fiscal administration for the department, including but not limited to budgets, funding, contracts, and purchasing.

• Responsible for processing departmental invoices for payment.

• Responsible for obtaining approvals from Facilities Managers on all invoices prior to sending to Accounts Payable.

• Ensuring that all purchase orders are valid and accurate with sufficient funds prior to sending invoices to Accounts Payable.

• Work closely with outside vendors, contractors, and suppliers to ensure the department is current with all invoices/bills.

• Create requests for purchase orders, change orders, and close out unnecessary open purchase orders as needed, through the University’s ERP system (“Workday”).

• Responsible for performing the charge-outs/cost recoveries.

• Prepare, examine, and analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards and identify trends and explanations for material variances.

• Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets; preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.

• Identify process improvement opportunities and assist with implementation efforts for departmental projects and initiatives.

• Interact with auditors in support of the audit process; provide documentation needed to auditors and answer follow up questions.

• Reports to management regarding the financial standing of the department.

• Prepare reports and variance analysis as needed.

• Review, investigate and resolve accounting discrepancies and irregularities.

• Record journal entries on an as needed basis.

• Assist in reporting year-end accruals.

• Prepare deposits as needed.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

Core Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field such as Finance and Accounting

• Minimum 1 year of relevant experience

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes:

• Knowledge of generally a