Fiscal Officer, VP & Principal Gifts​/Accountant

Fiscal Officer, VP & Principal Gifts Position Summary

Join a team that helps fuel the success of Michigan State University Advancement. As the Fiscal Officer for University Advancement VP and Principal Gift units, you will play a key role in overseeing financial operations, ensuring fiscal accountability, and supporting strategic decision‑making across the division. From managing budgets and financial reporting, to maintaining strong internal controls and overseeing travel and expense processes, you’ll be a trusted financial partner helping advance the mission of MSU.

If you are analytical, detail‑oriented, and enjoy working collaboratively to solve challenges, this is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact. This position serves as the fiscal officer for University Advancement’s Vice President and Principal Gift units, ensuring financial accuracy and compliance. The role provides timely, accurate financial reporting and analysis to support strategic decision‑making and optimizes financial processes to promote efficient and effective operations.

This position provides accounting and operational support for various units and accounts. It initiates, approves, and reconciles transactions within MSU’s Kuali Financial System to ensure accurate monitoring and maintenance of account balances. The position audits vouchers and financial statements to confirm accuracy, compliance, and validity, and analyzes business operations, trends, costs, revenues, and financial commitments to project future revenues and expenses.

It also prepares and interprets departmental financial reports, budget analyses, and status updates, and provides recommendations to improve financial policies, procedures, and processes.

• Manage accounts receivables and payables.
• Review and reconcile travel for domestic and international travel.
• Review and reconcile procurement card and meeting planner card transactions.
• Review and reconcile fund ledgers to ensure appropriate coding and account usage.

• Prepare and input purchase orders against requisition lists to ensure orders exist, delivery dates are accurate, and vendor product codes are correct.
• Process invoice payments and reimbursements via EBS.
• Enter information into EBS to maintain budget systems and status reports.
• Complete quarterly forecasting.

• Develop and maintain budget and financial reports for departmental and central review.

• Respond to inquiries from internal and external sources and review accounting transactions to locate and resolve discrepancies.
• Utilize interpersonal communication skills to address a wide range of questions from departmental personnel regarding income and expenses.

• Provide excellent customer service, including interacting with customers, answering telephone efficiently and courteously, routing calls to the proper person, and taking accurate and thorough messages to provide information to appropriate personnel in a timely manner.
• Other tasks as assigned.

Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a four‑year college degree program in Accounting; one to three years of related and progressively more responsible or expansive work experience in financial statement and report preparation, general ledger accounting and budgeting; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience with EBS, KFS, Business Intelligence, Query Studio, Concur Travel, Ascend (CRM), and Microsoft 365 Office Suite; excellent written and verbal communication skills; fluency in MSU policy and procedures; a self‑starter whose strengths include problem‑solving, attention to detail and deadlines, creative thinking, and experience working in a fast‑paced environment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.