Job Details
Heralded as a hub of undergraduate innovation, the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) creates and sustains meaningful interactions between students and faculty both within and outside the classroom. As a collaborative team member of VPUE, you have a unique opportunity to advance and support programs that touch and enhance the lives of every undergraduate student at Stanford.
About the Haas Center for Public ServiceStanford University’s Haas Center for Public Service serves as the hub of Cardinal Service, a campus-wide initiative to make service a distinctive feature of a Stanford education. The Haas Center inspires and prepares students to create a more just and sustainable world through service, scholarship, and community partnerships. Guided by the Center’s Principles of Ethical and Effective Service, students engage in local, national, and global service across diverse pathways—community-engaged learning and research, community organizing and activism, direct service, philanthropy, policy and governance, and social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility.
The Haas Center for Public Service seeks a detail-oriented Senior Accountant to join its finance and administration team. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills. In this role, you will prepare budgets, monitor expenditures, reconcile financial statements, and analyze financial data for more than 200 awards, including 110 endowment funds with varying restrictions.
To be considered, please submit a cover letter and resume along with your online application. Your cover letter should briefly describe your interest in the position and how you feel your background and experience would make you a successful candidate.
Responsibilities
Core Duties
- Analyze accounting transactions and information to summarizecurrent financial position at the unit or organization-wide level.Construct and assemble data for decision making; develop conclusions,and present high level summary of recommendations.
- Capture, track, and report revenue and expenses; determineappropriate procedures for accounting record preparation, research oftransactions and reporting. Oversee, reconcile, and resolve problemsrelative to complicated accounts.
- Collect data and perform research on details of transactions.Generate, review, analyze and communicate financial data that reflectsactual financial performance against approved budgets. Prepare andpresent quantitative and qualitative analyses focusing on variances frombudget and prior data.
- Maintain and review accounting process controls; recommend andimplement any approved modifications; perform preliminary analysis andrecommend solutions. Develop and maintain desktop procedures and processdocumentation for area of responsibility.
- Run and analyze financial reports, often from multiple systems;prepare management information reports.
- Execute internal control programs established by management,research new regulations, and recommend and implement approved changes.May manage compliance program for area of responsibility, and createcomplex compliance reports.
- Contribute to unit and organization strategy; assist in thedevelopment of change management plans and materials as needed.Participate as a member of a project team; support new initiatives. Makedecisions determining approach to managing and completingprocesses.
- Participate in critical analysis of existing systems andprocesses, and identify opportunities for process improvement. Definerequirements, develop and implement complex test cases, perform systemtesting and analyze results.
- Serve as a resource to local units and other departments toresolve accounting-related issues.
- May act as a lead, train, coach, and review the work of otherstaff, as needed. Contribute primarily through applying individualexpertise.
Minimum Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree plus four years of applicable experience, orcombination of education and relevant work experience.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Intermediate proficiency in business applications, such asMicrosoft Office; intermediate Excel skills.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with accounting systemsand the internet; computer literacy.
- Understanding of and ability to apply accounting skills andconcepts.
- Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
- Demonstrated communication skills, including the ability toclearly and effectively communicate information to internal audiencesand client groups.
- Demonstrated project management skills and ability to contributeas part of a project team.
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