What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accountant III position at The University of Texas at Arlington?
Job Summary
The Accountant III will assist the Payroll Director with detailed financial analysis, error resolution and effective communication with various stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications
Commitment Accounting:
The Accountant III will assist the Payroll Director with detailed financial analysis, error resolution and effective communication with various stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business field.
- Five (5) years of experience in payroll processing or accounting or an equivalent mix of education and relevant experience in similar role.
- Strong understanding of payroll laws and regulations.
- Experience working in a Higher Education setting.
- Experience with TRS reporting and TEXNET processing.
- Familiarity with UTShare (Peoplesoft) program.
- Certified Payroll Professional ( CPP ).
Commitment Accounting:
- Responsible for processing commitment accounting actuals for PayGL02 – (PayRun).
- Analyze and reconcile payroll summary reports for semi-monthly, monthly, and off-cycle payroll processing.
- Run and save payroll queries before PayRun or AdHoc processing.
- Run pre distribution audit report ( PDA ) and investigate errors.
- Collaborate with budget office and TCE teams to clear errors.
- Re-run PDA to ensure errors are resolved.
- Review and post journals for pay cycle finalization.
- Responsible for retro processing for commitment accounting.
- Create and manage run control for budget retro process.
- Review and verify data in retro distribution audit report (BUD020).
- Process and update retro distributions for earnings, deductions, and taxes.
- Analyze eForms and download employee earnings reports.
- Enter and process direct retro distributions.
- Verify and update actuals distribution for direct retros.
- Query and review actuals for payroll liability accounts.
- Prepare journals each month to clear liability accounts.
- Prepare monthly reconciliation.
- Verify complex data integrity and address discrepancies with stakeholders.
- Manage and run work study redistribution report.
- Analyze data to identify trends and areas of process improvement.
- Assist with special projects from the Director.
- Verify and update faculty fringe redistribution.
- Review and activate combo codes when necessary.
- Analyze financial records and statements.
- Communicate on behalf of the payroll department effectively.
- Provide support and insight for payroll-related accounting inquiries and issue resolution.
- Liaise between Payroll and SIS regarding payroll issues.
- Other duties as assigned.