Bursar

Job : 293426

Location: Summerville Campus

Employment Type: Full Time

The Bursar serves as the administrator for student accounts and university billing operations. The role oversees assessment, collection, and management of all student—related revenues, leading policy development, regulatory compliance, and financial operations. The position manages the Campus Business Office staff, participates in key policy formulation related to tuition and fees, ensures receivables in Banner comply with Board of Regents policies, and plays an active role in PCI compliance and audits.

Provide direct supervision to two Assistant Bursars and strategic leadership to a team of nine additional staff members—including the Student Accounts Manager, Accountant III, four Accounts Receivable Analysts, two Accounts Receivable Specialists, and student workers.

Assign, oversee, and evaluate the work of Business Office personnel across all core functions, including billing, collections, receivables, student loans and scholarships, daily reconciliations, and monthly financial analyses.

Promote operational excellence through ongoing assessment of workflows and implementation of process improvements.

Oversee all functional areas of the Business Office, including cash receipting; cash management of federal, state, institutional, and student funds; accounts receivable; aging analysis; and student loan/scholarship reconciliation.

Ensure integrity of accounting data within the subsidiary ledger and oversee timely reconciliation with People Soft Financials.

Provide campus-wide oversight for receipt of all funds, ensuring proper interface of subsystems with credit card payment platforms and general ledger systems to maintain full PCI compliance.

Collaborate with campus units engaged in billing and receipting functions to safeguard data security and ensure compliance with university, state, and federal guidelines.

Manage system configuration, maintenance, upgrades, testing, audit preparation, security provisioning, and user training for Banner Student/AR, Touch Net, Nelnet, and FISERV Merchant Services.

Serve as the Data Steward for the Banner Student Information System: design and maintain billing tables; develop and execute tuition and fee assessment rules; conduct system audits; and resolve complex student billing issues.

Coordinate system-related communications with internal departments reliant on effective billing, payment, and receipting workflows.

Prepare comprehensive monthly, quarterly, biannual, and annual reconciliations, journal entries, and financial analyses, including components of the institution’s audited Annual Financial Statements.

Produce mandated reports such as Year‑End reporting, FISAP, USG TAP reporting, State Purge/Drop and Collections reports, TRA audit submissions, merchant card services reports, Banner access audits, SIS reporting, DCG CODA surveys, and other required institutional, system, or state documentation.

Provide senior university leadership with timely, data‑informed financial analyses and decision‑support reports.

Participate in state audit engagements, including preparation of required documentation, completion of checklist deliverables, and performance of year‑end calculations and journal entries.

Monitor and enforce compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal regulations governing receivables, due diligence, collections, and financial controls.

Maintain business office PCI compliance across all revenue‑generating and payment‑accepting units.

Represent the Finance Division at internal and external committees and meetings related to tuition and fees, student loans and scholarships, accounts receivable operations, and system/security initiatives.

Participate in USG Accounts Receivable committees, working groups, project implementations, and professional conferences.

Collaborate closely with Financial Aid, Registrar, Admissions, and Information Technologies to…