Principal Accountant

Principal Accountant

Location: Fort Worth, TX

Job Classification: Principal Accountant

Department: HSC-Controller’s Office-350251 (HSC-Finance and Planning, University of North Texas Health Science Center)

Employment Type: Full-time (1.0 FTE)

Salary: Commensurate with Experience

Retirement Eligibility: TRS Eligible

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This position is responsible for performing entry level accounting work.

• Work involves preparing financial transactions, documents, reports, and reconciliations.
• May specialize in some phase of accounting work such as governmental, capital asset, cost, payroll, or debt.
• Works under general supervision, with limited latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.

• Prepares financial transactions, reports, and schedules; prepares and reviews general journal entries.
• Prepares periodic analyses of account balances; reconciles accounts.
• Audits accounting and financial documents for accuracy and compliance with departmental policies and procedures and state and federal statutes.
• Reviews accounting and financial documents for accuracy and compliance with GAAP, state and federal guidelines and institutional policies and procedures; researches and reconciles discrepancies in accounts, bank statements, or appropriation balances and reports findings.
• Maintains systems and controls necessary to provide accurate accounts of financial transactions.

• Bachelor's degree and three (3) years of related experience; or any equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Experience in a Texas public higher education institution, experience with People Soft and student accounting.

• Knowledge of fiscal programs; of governmental accounting and procedures; and of laws and regulations pertaining to financial operations.
• Thorough knowledge of accepted accounting practices.
• Skill in the use of office equipment, computers, and associated software applications.
• Ability to interpret and apply accounting theory, to plan and coordinate financial programs, to plan procedures and coordinate accounting operations, to interpret laws and regulations, to communicate effectively, and to train others.
• Skill in using office computer information systems to organize, store, manipulate and retrieve data.
• Effective communications skills both orally and in writing.
• Critical thinking skills.
• Ability to work accurately with numerical detail consistently and to perform accounting operations legibly.
• Ability to analyze, consolidate, and present accounting data in clear concise form.

• Communicating with others to exchange information.

• No adverse environmental conditions expected.

Mon‑Fri 8 am‑5 pm Hybrid