Accountant III

Salary and Benefits

PLEASE NOTE: The starting salary placement depends on qualifications and experience and is anticipated to be in the range of $5,779.00 per month to $6,700.00 per month.

Cal State East Bay offers a broad range of benefits that includes medical, dental, vision, retirement (CalPERS), 401k, 457, 403(b), dependent and health care reimbursement accounts, life insurance, vacation and sick, 14 paid holidays, one personal holiday and tuition fee waiver.

For more information on the benefits program, please visit our benefits website. The CSU Total Compensation Calculator demonstrates the significance of our benefits package.

This position may be eligible to participate in the Cal State East Bay hybrid telecommute program subject to management approval. 

Classification

Accountant III

About Cal State East Bay

Cal State East Bay's beautiful main campus is located in the Hayward hills with panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay shoreline. Situated above the city of Hayward, the campus offers an ideal setting for teaching and learning and yet easy access to the many cities along the bay. The University has a satellite campus in Concord, a professional development center in Oakland and a significant presence online. Founded in 1957, Cal State East Bay is one of 23 universities of the California State University system (CSU). Cal State East Bay is recognized as a regionally engaged and globally oriented university with a strong commitment to academic innovation, student success, engaged and service learning, diversity, and sustainability.

About the Position

The Financial Services department includes General Accounting, Accounts Payable, Student Financial & Cashier Services, Bay Card/University Club Services, Accounts Receivable, and Procurement & Support Services. This role is an Accountant III within the University Accounting unit.

Reporting to the General Accounting Manager, this position focuses primarily on University-wide and Auxiliaries activities, with an emphasis on preparation and filing of various tax returns, government reporting as well as another regulatory agency reporting. In addition, the Accountant III will be heavy-handed in the preparation and coordination of year-end close. This position performs advanced professional accounting work involving the application of accounting principles and practices to the resolution of a wide variety of complex accounting problems. The Accountant III serves as a high-level individual contributor providing expertise and providing lead work direction to other professional and/or technical staff.

Responsibilities

Prepare, analyze, and interpret financial reports, statements, and records:

• Conduct extensive financial data compilation, querying and drilling on large volumes of financial data; and use integrated financial systems and/or other types of records management systems:
  • Review financial data, reports and statements
  • Identify and analyze errors (e.g. FIRMS)
  • Take corrective action
• Prepare complex financial statements, reports, and financial transactions (e.g. endowment financial activity, current use donor funds administration, University transactions).
• Analyze account balances and reconcile balances to external data:
  • Although more complex, assigned reconciliations are completed accurately
  • Reconciliations are consistently completed by the provided deadline.
  • Reconciling items are generally resolved within 30 days; 60 days for more complex issues.
• Monitor and report on balances on a Legal and GAAP basis.
• Responsible for the accurate compilation and preparation of various filings such as:
  • NCAA reporting
  • UBIT Reporting
  • Possessory Reporting
  • Foreign Source Reporting
  • 1042 Report file
  • Tax 990 schedules
  • Sales Tax
• Respond to internal and external inquiries in compliance with University policy.

Provide training, guidance and assistance to other employees and provide lead work direction to other professional and/or technical staff as assigned:

• Train and assist staff with their assignments and review their work.
• Review journal entries for completeness, accuracy, compliance and ensure there is adequate support for the entry.