Associate Director Student Accounting, Billing & Financial Operations

Title: Associate Director Student Accounting, Billing & Financial Operations

Employee Classification: Assoc Dir Student Accounting

Campus: University of North Texas

Division: UNT-Enrollment Management

Sub Division-Department: UNT-Student Accounting

Department: UNT-Student Accounting-150300

Job Location: Denton

Salary: Commensurate with experience

FTE: 1.000000

Retirement Eligibility: TRS Eligible

Student Accounting is deeply committed to delivering the highest quality of innovative student account and financial services to the UNT community, helping ensure UNT's enrollment and financial success. Our team is responsible for assessing and collecting all tuition and fees, processing waivers, exemptions, veterans' educational benefits, third-party sponsor ships, tuition benefit programs, refunds, departmental deposit and financial services, and tax reporting.

The position is responsible for the management and oversight of all tuition and fee assessment, billing, and subledger accounting for over 650M annually. The position oversees a team that manages UNTs largest financial subledger and revenue source (Tuition/Fees Student Accounts) from initial assessment/billing, until the point that each transaction is submitted to the University General Ledger (GL) through the SF Journal process.

In addition, this position functions as the student finance liaison for all internal and external audits related to UNT Student Accounting. This position is responsible for leading and executing the request process (including documentation and approval) for all items that will be posted to student accounts as part of the tuition/fee assessment process each semester. The position will lead the efforts to establish and/or update tuition and fee items within the student financials system and coordinate associated projects/requests with senior leaders in Finance/Administration, Academic Affairs, all colleges, and Enrollment Management.

The position holds management responsibility for the assessment of over 650M in tuition and fee transactions, which are posted through Student Accounting annually, and is responsible for ensuring that all tuition/fee lines are calculated and validated in accordance with requested parameters and institutional needs. In addition, this position provides management oversight to student tax reporting processes (1098-T) for over 65,000 students annually.

The position serves as a key liaison between Student Accounting and the new Integrated Student Services Center (UNT One Stop) for strategic initiatives related to student billing and 1098-T reporting. These additional responsibilities involve strategic planning and coordination across division and college lines to ensure that decisions are made based on student metrics/dashboards generated from Student Accounting data.

Bachelor's degree and six years of progressively responsible experience in a student accounting, billing/receivables, reporting, or related business field or any equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Knowledge working with large scale financial transactions and accounting in a higher education environment or closely related industry. Ability to lead financial operations involving accounting, reporting, and financial decisions. Skill in financial, analytical and process analysis skills. Proficient with complex reporting methodologies and functional expertise of ERP functionalities. Strong project and team management skills. Ability to drive to ensure student success.

Detail oriented and function well as a working manager. Ability to manage complex workload with competing deadlines, lead a high functioning team through large scale projects and communicate effectively with students, campus partners and team members. Ability to develop effective working relationships across team, department and division boundaries to ensure that projects and initiatives are successful.

The preferred candidate will possess the following additional qualifications:
Ability to analyze problems and develop solutions. Strong presentation, problem solving, critical thinking and project management skills. Strong organizational, analytical and planning skills. Ability to effectively demonstrate initiative and productivity in the work environment. A preferred candidate will have prior experience in a student accounts/bursars office or experience working with large scale financial transactions in a higher education setting or closely related service-provider environment/industry.

In addition, a preferred candidate will have experience developing complex reports/dashboards to support institutional decision making.

The individual in this position must maintain a subject matter expert level of knowledge on institutional tuition and fee rates, rules, and multimillion dollar revenue streams. A successful individual in this position will be…