Accountant III - GL Accountant

Accountant III – GL Accountant

Department: 00348 - Financial Reporting & Accounting

Location:

Salt Lake City, UT

Position Type:
Full Time, Hybrid (Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm)

Job Summary:

This position plays a key role in supporting month-end and year-end close, financial reporting accuracy, accounting process improvements, and system implementation initiatives. The ideal candidate is a strong technical accountant who understands complex financial transactions, can identify and resolve accounting issues according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). This role requires sound professional judgment, and the ability to work collaboratively with the various campus departments and colleges to ensure financial transactions are accurate, timely, and compliant with university policies and applicable accounting standards.

This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen.

• Prepare accurate and well-supported accrual journal entries for month-end and year-end close.
• Support allocation methodologies, including calculation, documentation, review, and improvement of recurring allocation entries.
• Assist with intercompany, interfund, or intra-University eliminations and related accounting processes.
• Support monthly, and year-end close processes by ensuring assigned accounting activities are completed accurately and on schedule.
• Partner with departments and central offices to resolve accounting questions, improve transaction accuracy, and provide guidance on appropriate accounting treatment.
• Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, strengthen internal controls, reduce manual work, and improve consistency across general ledger operations.
• Assist with system implementations, upgrades, testing, reporting improvements, and other finance transformation initiatives.

Equivalency Statement: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor’s degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).

Accountants, III:
Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 6 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 4 years of directly related work experience.

• Experience preparing and reviewing accruals, allocations, eliminations, reconciliations, correcting entries, and other month-end or year-end close entries.
• System implementation and process improvement experience.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, Vlookups, formulas, data validation, and analysis of large data sets.

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