Details **Open Date** 02/20/2025 **Requisition Number** PRN41230B **Job Title** Accountant **Working Title** Accountant **Job Grade** D **FLSA Code** Administrative **Patient Sensitive Job Code?** No **Standard Hours per Week** 40 **Full Time or Part Time?** Full Time **Shift** Day **Work Schedule Summary** Monday-Friday, 8:00AM-5:00PM **VP Area** Academic Affairs **Department** 00051 - College of Engineering-Dean **Location** Campus **City** Salt Lake City, UT **Type of Recruitment** External Posting **Pay Rate Range** 53000 to 58400 **Close Date** 03/31/2025 **Priority Review Date (Note - Posting may close at any time)** **Job Summary** The Utah Nanofab at the University of Utah’s John and Marcia Price College of Engineering is seeking an Accountant to manage financial operations and oversee lab revenue cycles. This role involves invoicing, procurement, financial reporting, and asset management while working closely with researchers, students, and faculty. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, proactive, and comfortable handling diverse financial tasks in a research and academic setting. **Responsibilities** **Financial & Revenue Management** + Manage the full revenue cycle of the Nanofab service recharge center. This includes processing the monthly invoicing, accounts receivable/payable, and pricing of lab services and consumables. + Maintain billing accuracy, including tax exemptions, adjustments, and manual corrections. + Reconcile financial records, prepare journal entries, and ensure proper cost allocation. + Ensure compliance with federal and university financial policies. **Budgeting & Reporting** + Help forecast and track the annual revenue, providing variance analysis and monthly reports. + Enter and maintain financial data in lab management systems ( HSC Cores), reconciling accounts each month while ensuring accuracy and detailed justifications. + Support financial audits, ensuring compliance with university and federal regulations. **Procurement & Expense Management** + Oversee procurement, purchase orders (POs), and payment processing. + Ensure compliance with university policies for purchases, travel expenses, and reimbursements. + Manage P-Card transactions, including yearly audits and strict reporting requirements. + Optimize cost-saving strategies for lab supplies, shipping, and equipment maintenance. **Capital Asset & Inventory Management** + Oversee the capital assets inventory and asset disposals. + Ensure inventory availability for critical research activities, including chemical, cleanroom, and hazardous material stock. **Lab & Student Support** + Ensure accurate lab user account setup and management. + Support lab teaching courses, handling billing, expense tracking, and student course fee oversight and reconciliation. 1. Prepares and assesses budget, revenue, expense, payroll and journal entries, and other accounting documents. 2. Analyzes and monitors budgets and expenditures for compliance with fiscal accountability and reporting requirements. 3. Analyzes and forecasts revenue and expenditure trends. 4. Reconciles balance sheets, cash, general ledger, payroll accounts and supporting journal entries. 5. Develops accounting systems and documents to support the input and handling of financial data and reports. 6. Interacts with internal and external auditors and participates in auditing projects. 7. May supervise or train lower level accounting staff. This job description is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job. **Work Environment and Level of Frequency typically required** Nearly Continuously: Office environment. **Physical Requirements and Level of Frequency that may be required** Nearly Continuously: Sitting, hearing, listening, talking. Often: Repetitive hand motion (such as typing), walking. Seldom: Bending, reaching overhead. **Minimum Qualifications** Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field, plus one year related experience or equivalency (two years of related work experience can be substituted for one year of education) required. A thorough understanding of general ledger accounting practices, cost analysis and accounting principles, as well as demonstrated analytical, problem solving, human relations and effective communication skills also required. Knowledge of PeopleSoft or Access databases may be preferred in some areas. Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description. **Preferences** **Type** Benefited Staff **Special Instructions Summary** **Additional Information** The University is a participating employer with Utah Retirement Systems (“URS”). Eligible new hires with prior URS service, may elect to enroll in URS if they make the election before they become eligible for retirement (usually the first day of work). Contact Human Resources at (801) 581-7447 for information. Individuals who previously retired and are receiving monthly retirement benefits from URS are subject to URS’ post-retirement rules and restrictions. Please contact Utah Retirement Systems at (801) 366-7770 or (800) 695-4877 or University Human Resource Management at (801) 581-7447 if you have questions regarding the post-retirement rules. This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen. The University of Utah values candidates who have experience working in settings with students and patients from all backgrounds and possess a strong commitment to improving access to higher education and quality healthcare for historically underrepresented students and patients. All qualified individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. Veterans’ preference is extended to qualified applicants, upon request and consistent with University policy and Utah state law. Upon request, reasonable accommodations in the application process will be provided to individuals with disabilities. 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