Student Accounting, Functional Analyst

Title: Student Accounting, Functional Analyst

Employee Classification: Student Accounting Funct Anlst

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

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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.

This position is responsible for performing complex Billing Operations and GL support for applications utilized by Student Accounting. Leads the processing of all Student Accounting processing for tuition and fee assessment, billing, and subledger accounting for over $600M annually. This position leads with the request process (including documentation/approval) for all items which will be posted to student accounts as part of the tuition/fee assessment process each semester.

The position will lead efforts to establish and/or update tuition and fee items within the student financials system and coordinate associated projects/requests with teams in Finance/Administration, Academic Affairs, all colleges, and Enrollment Management. This position will be responsible for ensuring that all tuition/fee lines are calculated and validated in accordance with requested parameters and institutional needs. This position also collaborates with department leadership and UNT System Internal Audit on the Tuition and Fee Continuous Monitoring Framework.

Bachelor's degree Info Systems, Computer Science, Business Admin, Accounting, Finance, Math or related and three years progressively responsible business analysis or functional experience; 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 diverse team through large scale projects and communicate effectively to 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…