Accountant II

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Job Location (Full Address):

601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, New York, United States of America, 14642

Opening:

Worker Subtype:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Department:

400045 Neurology - MC Admin M&D

Work Shift:

UR - Day (United States of America)

Range:

UR URG 109 H

Compensation Range:

$26.90 - $37.66

The referenced pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation for this job. Individual annual salaries/hourly rates will be set within the job's compensation range, and will be determined by considering factors including, but not limited to, market data, education, experience, qualifications, expertise of the individual, and internal equity considerations.

Responsibilities:

GENERAL PURPOSE:
Provides specialized support in various accounting function for the department. Creates tools to improve ability to manage department financial activities through use of advanced excel and in depth understanding and analysis of financials. Acts as Department Super User for Workday, P2P and budgeting system. Prepares onboarding and training updates for the Finance Team. Researches, designs and builds programs to efficiently and effectively manage the processes and functions of the finance office. Assists with preparation of operating and capital budgets and performs financial reporting and analysis across all activities for the department. Maintains current knowledge of university policies to ensure
adherence.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Prepares and distributes routine reports including consolidated division and department financial reports, personnel distribution and faculty productivity reports. Utilizes UR Financials, Tableau, Cognos/URHR, and other University systems as necessary to gather data for reporting. Develops new reports to target department strategic initiatives and financial objectives. Interprets trends and variances for reporting and to take corrective action or make
• recommendations on fiscal control to the Director of Finance and Program Administrator.
• Performs monthly analysis and maintains financial reports on all non-grant accounts. The department currently holds approximately 160 accounts related to professional medical accounts for hospital activities with Strong Memorial Hospital (SMH), Medical Faculty Group (MFG), educational activities in the School of Medicine and Dentistry (SMD), and professional
• activities with outside organizations. Identifies and troubleshoots financial issues during monthly reconciliation.
• Reconciles non-salary expenditures by reviewing University ledgers, Requests for Payment, Employee Expenses Reports and other supporting documentation. Reconciles checks, invoices & incentive payouts. Utilizes excel based shadow system for reconciliation process, in conjunction with Cognos/UR Financials, URHR/HRMS, and other diagnostic tools. Audits, analyze and reconcile ledger accounts to confirm completeness and accuracy of data. Uses judgment as to whether account balances are reasonable;
• examines accounting documents to ascertain that transactions are properly supported in accordance with university policy and procedures. Creates ad hoc reports as necessary to understand and explain the financial activity of the Department. Initiate corrective action by preparing Journal Entries with proper supporting documentation in accordance to university policy. Works
• with A/P and Procurement on a weekly basis to monitor vendor payments, purchase orders, SIRs, and payments are overseen in a timely manner.
• Assist Finance Director with the preparation of capital, operating budgets and endowment reports. Creates templates and tools to aid in consistent approach across the department to the budget submission. Assists new administrators/AAs with UR financials processes as well as reporting.
• Updates various spreadsheets on an ad-hoc and routine basis relating to ledger activity and financial projections utilizing Cognos, UR Financials, etc. Process journal entries/expense transfers as needed. Track and reconcile specific expenses as needed, such as outside rent leases, pharmacy and licenses. Helps with parking validation labels for the clinical and central departments. Assist with tracking of expenses for faulty and APPs. Develops a variety of spreadsheets on an ad-hoc basis; performs additi