University of Texas System Looking for Manager, Financial Reports at Austin, TX  Full Time

Exempt

Immediately

Salary commensurate with experience

40 hours weekly

Office of the Controller

A resume and letter of interest is required to apply. Candidates under final consideration will also be required to submit professional references, college degree information, and employment history to an online third-party vendor.

For more than 140 years, The University of Texas System has improved the lives of Texans – and people all over the world – through education, health care, and research. The System consists of nine academic institutions, five health institutions, and The University of Texas System Administration. The institutions of the UT System employ more than 116,000 faculty, health care professionals, researchers, support staff, and student workers.

The UT System Administration is primarily based in Austin, Texas. It supports the missions of the System’s fourteen institutions by providing financial, legal, planning, purchasing, government relations, communications, development, and other central services. Serving a growing state, the UT System Administration strives to provide a welcoming, supportive work environment that embraces different perspectives – not only because it enables the organization to be stronger, creative, and thoughtful, but because it is the right thing to do. To that end, UT System Administration embraces state laws on and employment preferences.

Interpret complex accounting standards, rules, and regulations; analyze the implications of the regulations and implement the necessary operations and controls to prepare a consolidated annual financial report.

• Operational compliance: Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of government accounting standards and all associated relevant policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the submission, to various state government agencies, of an annual financial report.
• Information and Business Advice: Provides specialized guidance on the interpretation and application of policies and procedures pertaining to complex accounting issues and regulations.
• Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments specific to required monthly financial and accounting reporting and the end of year submission of the annual financial reporting requirements.
• Data Management: Manages basic aspects of the accounting and financial reporting systems with guidance from senior leadership. This includes being responsible for maintaining accounting systems and making recommendations and leading the implementation of any potential system enhancements.
• Insights and Reporting: Prepares and coordinates the completion of various complex data and analytic reports.
• Financial Management and Control: Work with the established systems to deliver prescribed outcomes for a specialized area of financial reporting and ensures compliance with accounting standards.
• Manages Complexity: Makes sense of highly complex accounting information to effectively solve problems and implement specific policies and procedures.
• Tech Savvy: Anticipates and adopts innovations in recommending and implementing technology applications that will address complex accounting standards, which includes investigating technologies that enhances cutting edge best practices in accounting standards.
• Other duties as assigned.

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or related field and 7 years of experience in accounting, financial reporting is required.

One year of college over the required minimum (Bachelor’s Degree) may be substituted for one year of the required experience on a year-for-year basis, allowing up to a maximum of 2 years of substituted experience.

Experienced in implementing accounting systems across highly matrixed organizations that align with highly complex accounting regulations.

• May work around standard office conditions
• Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation
• Requires occasional evening or weekend hours
• Hybrid work environment (remote & office)

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to a minimum of 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

A background check will be conducted on candidates under final consideration. The background check may include any or all of the following: criminal history check, prior employment verification, education verification, professional references check, and motor vehicle records check. Background checks are conducted by third-party vendors. Upon request form the third-party vendor, candidates under final consideration must provide the required information for the background checks to be completed.

The University of Texas System is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or sexual orientation. Reasonable disability accommodation may be requested by contacting the Office of Talent and Innovation.