Bursar

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Augusta University is Georgia's innovation center for education and health care, training the next generation of innovators, leaders, and healthcare providers on four campuses in Augusta and across the state. With more than 10,500 students, Augusta offers opportunities at the center of Georgia's cybersecurity hub and experiential learning that blends arts, humanities, and the health sciences. The university is home to Georgia's only public academic health center, where groundbreaking research creates a healthier, more prosperous Georgia, and world‑class clinicians bring the medicine of tomorrow to patient care today.

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Job : 293426
Location: Summerville Campus
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Recruitment Period: 12/19/25 - Until Filled

The Bursar serves as the administrator for student accounts and university billing operations. The Bursar oversees assessment, collection, and management of all student‑related revenues, provides leadership in policy development and regulatory compliance, and manages the Campus Business Office staff and functions. Responsibilities also include PCI compliance oversight, audit participation, and monthly, quarterly, biannual, and year‑end reporting and processing at the university, state, and federal levels.

This is a fully on‑site position requiring office‑based work.

• Provide direct supervision to two Assistant Bursars and strategic leadership to a team of nine additional staff members, including a 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 core functions (billing, collections, receivables, student loans and scholarships, daily reconciliations, and monthly financial analyses).
• Promote operational excellence through ongoing workflow assessment and process improvement implementation.
• 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 PCI compliance.
• Collaborate with campus units on billing and receipting functions to safeguard data security and comply 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 tuition and fee assessment rules; conduct system audits; and resolve complex 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, preparing required documentation, completing checklists, and performing year‑end calculations and journal entries.
• Monitor and enforce compliance with all applicable local, state, and federal regulations governing receivables, due diligence,…