Accounting Specialist III, Controller's Office, UT System Administration

Market Range 9

This position is one of three positions responsible for controlling system wide bank transactions and UT cash-related transactions. It is responsible for detecting bank fraud quickly. It ensures all UT cash transactions are recorded and approved, and it coordinates the completion of 31 bank statement reconciliations monthly. This position ensures departments resolve their deposit discrepancies and record their receivables for returned checks, ACH’s, credit cards.

This position provides support for bank/cash activity to state auditors and consults with bank personnel concerning bank issues, positive pay rejects (for suspected fraud), ACH positive pay issues, deposit discrepancies, and stop payments on checks. Positive pay must be done daily, even when UT is closed. Therefore, this position must work during normal UT Holidays.

This position assists the assistant controller by continually monitoring specific accounts, processing outstanding check write-offs, and preparing month end and fiscal year end entries. It serves as a back-up for processing electronic tax payments for the administrative assistant. On behalf of the associate controller and accounts payable operations, this position monitors specific accounts daily to ensure accounts payable processes are operating correctly and problems are reported and quickly corrected.

This position oversees bursar’s offices processing of deposits, electronic funds and bank cards for various campuses and institutes.