Senior Accounting Specialist

Pay Range: Targeted salary of $21.01 hourly, based on experience

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Work Schedule: Monday – Friday Standard / Fixed Schedule

Travel: Not required

The Office of the Bursar provides operational support to students, academic departments, and administrative offices to ensure that the University of Oklahoma stays on mission: to provide the best possible educational experience for our students through excellence in teaching, research and creative activity, and service to the state and society. The Office of the Bursar is currently looking for a Senior Accounting Specialist that will communicate and work with our students here at the OU Health Sciences Center and its many departments!

We provide amazing benefits that include insurance (medical, dental, vision, life) for the entire family, generous paid time off, 14 paid holidays (including from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day), retirement plans, tuition benefits, and much more! For more information about what benefits we provide . If you want to make an impact in the leaders of tomorrow, prepare your Resume and apply today!

We look forward to hearing from you.

• Daily processing of EFTs, cash receipts, credit card transactions, billing, refunds, and deposits.
• Reconciliation of multiple accounts, statements, and ledgers.
• Budget verification, scholarship fund availability reviews, and cost analysis.

• Preparation of financial reports, cost analysis, forecasts, and management reports.
• Monitoring accounts receivable, loan balances, third-party contracts, and collections.
• Providing accurate financial data to supervisors and leadership.

• Extensive use of People Soft Campus Solutions, State Treasurer systems, ACH processes, EFT files, and third-party platforms.
• Ensuring compliance with internal policies, state regulations, federal loan requirements, and tax reporting (1098-T, Title VII loans, waivers).
• Managing university-wide credit card billing and third-party contracts.

• Regular interaction with students, departments, banking institutions, state agencies, third party vendors, and collection agencies.
• Responding to complex financial inquiries and investigating discrepancies.
• Providing documentation, reconciliations, and guidance to departments.

• Maintaining extensive filing systems, borrower folders, reconciliation documentation, and audit-ready records.
• Managing large volumes of sensitive financial data.

• General office support functions

• High School diploma or GED
• 36 months experience in accounting/bookkeeping

None

• Ten key by touch
• People Soft Student Financial
• People Soft Financial
• Experience working with billing and banking information
• Cashiering experience
• Customer Service experience

Hiring Contingent Upon a Background Check: Yes