"Accountant 1"

Job Details

Department: Med Ad - Finance Service Ctr - 420109

Career Area: Accounting/Finance/Auditing

Application Deadline: 09/22/2025

Position Type: Temporary Staff (EHRA NF)

Position Title: Accountant 1

Position Number: 20072101

Vacancy ID: N000799

FTE: 1

Hours Per Week: 40

Position Location: North Carolina, US

Hiring Range: $46,900 - $65,000

Proposed Start Date: 08/18/2025

Estimated Duration of Appointment: 12 months

Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit: Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research. Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond. Education: We prepare tomorrow’s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce. Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

Position Summary: The Accountant 1 position is responsible for managing and monitoring financial activities in multiple Center’s and Core Facilities that are part of the School of Medicine Finance and Research Service Center. Fund types managed include grants, contracts, trusts, trials, gifts, Medical Foundation, overhead and state funds. The range of duties includes, but is not limited to, project/program administration, organizing and planning research operations, communication with internal and external customers. The Accountant 1 position serves and provides guidance to recognize long term projection and goals for Center Principal Investigators and Core Directors. The Accountant 1 position is fully involved in the budget planning process and development of financial report and billings. Position is responsible for meeting deadlines, auditing accounts to ensure agency compliance and for locating and analyzing all available funding resources to provide financial guidance to PIs and Directors.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements: Entry-level with Masters; or Bachelors and 0-2 yrs experience

Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience: Must have the demonstrated ability to manage multiple shifting priorities while meeting and exceeding deadlines. Must have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to effectively communicate and present financial information to Principal Investigators. Must have knowledge of and experience with accounting policies and procedures. Must have the ability to independently prepare, disseminate, and interpret financial reports.

Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience: Four year degree in accounting or finance. Experience with PeopleSoft. Knowledge of funding program specifics and accounting principles and their application to cost, governmental accounting, and non-governmental accounting. Experience with post-award grant accounting, with the ability to identify substantive issues, and thoroughly and accurately research and analyze them in order to anticipate budgetary adjustments.

Campus Security Authority Responsibilities: Not Applicable.