Staff Accountant

Job Overview

The Staff Accountant plays a key role within the University's Business Office, contributing to the financial stewardship of a mission-driven institution dedicated to higher education. This position supports a broad range of accounting, budgeting, and financial reporting functions, helping to ensure compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), regulatory requirements, and policies specific to higher education and nonprofit organizations.

This role offers the opportunity to engage in meaningful work that directly supports the University's academic mission while gaining exposure to diverse accounting operations, budgeting processes, financial analysis, and institutional reporting. Employees benefit from a collaborative and supportive work environment, opportunities for professional growth and development, comprehensive benefits, retirement contributions, paid holidays, and tuition-related benefits where applicable.

• Complete tasks timely with work that is comprehensive, complete, and accurate
• Communicates clearly, listens attentively, and seeks to understand others
• Collaborates productively with colleagues of varying skillset
• Support Director of Budget with annual budgets to ensure a timely process
• Assist Director of Budget with monthly monitoring of budget-to-actuals to control expenses
• Assist Director of Budget with creation and revision of internal budget reports as required
• Assist with gathering historical data as requested by Budget Managers
• Perform monthly bank reconciliations
• Assist with annual audit schedules
• Review all credit card expense reports for budget number accuracy and make any necessary changes
• Reconcile various general ledger accounts
• Reconcile payroll module and the general ledger for all salaries and wages
• Maintain a listing of all lease payments during the fiscal year
• Reconcile accounts payable monthly
• Reconcile donor system contributions to the general ledger monthly
• Back up for accounts payable and cash receipts
• Ability to handle and work with interruptions during normal office hours.
• Demonstrated organizational capabilities, detail orientation, and the ability to handle multiple priorities and complex projects simultaneously.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.
• Demonstrate a commitment to serving and inspiring students and colleagues in a context of a Christian University, integrating your Christian faith into your role and responsibilities.
• Embrace the mission, vision, and values of Fresno Pacific University, affirm the FPU Faith Expectations, and support the ideals and practices articulated in "The Fresno Pacific Idea"
• Uphold and advance Fresno Pacific University’s commitment to Christ-centered higher education, holistic student development, and serving diverse communities.
• Other job duties as assigned

• Two to three years of public accounting experience.
• Associates degree in accounting
• Skilled in Excel, Word, Tax Software, and Thomson

• Four to five years of public accounting experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, and the Windows environment.

• Indoors in a normal office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, fumes, vibrations, and temperature changes at least eighty percent (80%) of the time.
• Frequent computer use at a workstation, up to eight hours per day.
• Frequently work at a fast pace with unscheduled interruptions.
• Drive personal or University vehicles to appointments.
• Public contact position requiring professional apparel, personal hygiene, and grooming.

• This position typically functions indoors in an office environment with light to moderate noise associated with business office equipment. The position may involve travel for meetings and events.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: remain in a stationary position 80 % of the time, be able to move about inside the office to access file cabinets/office machinery etc., operate a computer and keyboard and other office productivity machinery such as calculators/copy…