Wright State University
Accountant 2
🇺🇸 Dayton, OH
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $45K
💻 Finance
🗓️ June 3rd, 2025
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Wright State University is hiring an Accountant 2. This role involves overseeing and processing financial transactions for multiple units across campus, maintaining accurate records, conducting account reconciliations and analysis, educating on policies, and providing budget forecasting. The position requires interaction with faculty and staff, emphasizing initiative and judgment.
Highlights
Highlights
- Oversee and process financial transactions for various campus units.
- Maintain accurate, compliant, and confidential records.
- Conduct account reconciliations and budget forecasting.
- Required proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Minimum salary of $45,000 annually.
- Bachelor’s degree in business with relevant work experience or equivalent experience required.
- Preferred qualifications include experience in higher education budgeting and finance, and an MBA.
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EEO Statement | Wright State University is an equal opportunity employer.
Faculty Rank or Job Title | Accountant 2
Job Category: | Administrative (exempt/non-exempt)
Department | VP-Business & Fiscal Affairs Admin
EEO number: | 25P224
Position FTE | 100%
Minimum Annual or Hourly Rate | $45,000
Salary Band: | UC S03
Job Summary/Basic Function: | Responsible for the oversight and processing of all financial transactions related to the multiple units across campus. This includes maintaining accurate, compliant and confidential records and providing necessary account reconciliations, analysis, policy education and enforcement, as well as budget/expense forecasting as requested by assigned Fiscal Manager(s). This position requires initiative, judgment, and considerable verbal and written contact with faculty and staff across campus.
Minimum Qualifications | Bachelor’s degree in business by start date with a minimum of one year of relevant work experience in accounting or finance; OR a Bachelor’s degree by start date with 5+ years of accounting/finance work experience; OR associate’s degree by start date and 7 years of accounting/finance experience; OR 10 or more years accounting/finance experience in lieu of degree.
Ability to manage multiple tasks, remain organized, prioritize work, and apply a high level of attention to detail
Must be able to demonstrate ability to work in Microsoft Excel.
Preferred Qualifications | Experience in higher education budget and finance
Masters of Business Administration
Essential Functions and percent of time: | 25%- Work closely with departments across campus to ensure all financial transactions are processed efficiently, accurately and timely. This may require handling large sums of money, numerous credit card transactions and securing confidential information. Process purchase orders and/or, direct review and approve departmental purchase orders, and cash remittance vouchers. Frequently communicate with university accounts payable & bursar office personnel as well as outside vendors.
20%-Reconcile financial transactions to Banner Finance to ensure all transactions are accurate and appropriate for each fund/org, processes correcting journal vouchers as needed. Maintain financial documents in a highly organized and orderly fashion. Reconcile payments made through our on-line MarketPlace websites. Analyze various orgs/account codes for expense trends and budget concerns as well as regular encumbrance review. Assist departments with financial reconciliation process.
20%-Policy review, education and enforcement. Ensure all University Policies are adhered to in relation to financial transactions. Guide, educate and enforce these policies to faculty, staff, and students that work in these offices. Help facilitate and train employees as well as reviews policies and procedures at monthly Budget Team meetings to ensure all faculty and staff have the training and tools necessary to perform their job while ensuring they are compliant.
15% – Oversee the university’s travel and expense management for the departments. Provide system training and support for all faculty and staff as well as training materials. Review expense reports submitted by staff for accuracy.
15% – Assist Fiscal Managers with the handling of all Personnel Action Forms and EPAF’s across the units. This includes a monthly reconciliation to ensure all positions are appropriately funded and that faculty, staff, and students are paid correctly by the university.
5%-Provide expense projections, budget forecasts, and participates in the annual budgeting process as requested by the Fiscal Manager. Provide information (supporting documents) for yearly internal and external audits.
Essential Functions and percent of time (cont'd): |
Non-Essential Functions and percent of time: |
Working Conditions | Wright State University, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, is committed to an inclusive environment and strongly encourages applications from minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities.
To preserve the safety and security of the campus community and to maintain the integrity of university operations, it is the policy of Wright State University to make an employment offer contingent on various background checks, such as a criminal record, credit history when job related and/or education verifications. Additionally, an administrative review shall be conducted whenever the university learns that an employee is charged with or convicted of a crime (except for minor vehicle violations). Frequently asked questions related to background checks may be found on the Human resources website at http://www.wright.edu/human-resources.
Effective July 1, 2017, per Policy 7230 Wright State University is tobacco-free. Tobacco use, including the sale, advertising sampling and distribution of tobacco products and tobacco related items is prohibited in all university facilities, on all university owned or leased grounds, university owned or operated residence halls and apartments, and at all university sponsored events regardless of location. Tobacco use is also prohibited in all university vehicles or on any equipment owned, leased or operated by Wright State University. This policy applies to anyone on campus including students, faculty, staff, visitors, consultants, vendors, patients, volunteers, and contractor employees.
Special Instructions to Applicants |
Posting Date | 05/30/2025
First Consideration Date: | 06/09/2025
Closing Date |
Open Until Filled | Yes
Faculty Rank or Job Title | Accountant 2
Job Category: | Administrative (exempt/non-exempt)
Department | VP-Business & Fiscal Affairs Admin
EEO number: | 25P224
Position FTE | 100%
Minimum Annual or Hourly Rate | $45,000
Salary Band: | UC S03
Job Summary/Basic Function: | Responsible for the oversight and processing of all financial transactions related to the multiple units across campus. This includes maintaining accurate, compliant and confidential records and providing necessary account reconciliations, analysis, policy education and enforcement, as well as budget/expense forecasting as requested by assigned Fiscal Manager(s). This position requires initiative, judgment, and considerable verbal and written contact with faculty and staff across campus.
Minimum Qualifications | Bachelor’s degree in business by start date with a minimum of one year of relevant work experience in accounting or finance; OR a Bachelor’s degree by start date with 5+ years of accounting/finance work experience; OR associate’s degree by start date and 7 years of accounting/finance experience; OR 10 or more years accounting/finance experience in lieu of degree.
Ability to manage multiple tasks, remain organized, prioritize work, and apply a high level of attention to detail
Must be able to demonstrate ability to work in Microsoft Excel.
Preferred Qualifications | Experience in higher education budget and finance
Masters of Business Administration
Essential Functions and percent of time: | 25%- Work closely with departments across campus to ensure all financial transactions are processed efficiently, accurately and timely. This may require handling large sums of money, numerous credit card transactions and securing confidential information. Process purchase orders and/or, direct review and approve departmental purchase orders, and cash remittance vouchers. Frequently communicate with university accounts payable & bursar office personnel as well as outside vendors.
20%-Reconcile financial transactions to Banner Finance to ensure all transactions are accurate and appropriate for each fund/org, processes correcting journal vouchers as needed. Maintain financial documents in a highly organized and orderly fashion. Reconcile payments made through our on-line MarketPlace websites. Analyze various orgs/account codes for expense trends and budget concerns as well as regular encumbrance review. Assist departments with financial reconciliation process.
20%-Policy review, education and enforcement. Ensure all University Policies are adhered to in relation to financial transactions. Guide, educate and enforce these policies to faculty, staff, and students that work in these offices. Help facilitate and train employees as well as reviews policies and procedures at monthly Budget Team meetings to ensure all faculty and staff have the training and tools necessary to perform their job while ensuring they are compliant.
15% – Oversee the university’s travel and expense management for the departments. Provide system training and support for all faculty and staff as well as training materials. Review expense reports submitted by staff for accuracy.
15% – Assist Fiscal Managers with the handling of all Personnel Action Forms and EPAF’s across the units. This includes a monthly reconciliation to ensure all positions are appropriately funded and that faculty, staff, and students are paid correctly by the university.
5%-Provide expense projections, budget forecasts, and participates in the annual budgeting process as requested by the Fiscal Manager. Provide information (supporting documents) for yearly internal and external audits.
Essential Functions and percent of time (cont'd): |
Non-Essential Functions and percent of time: |
Working Conditions | Wright State University, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, is committed to an inclusive environment and strongly encourages applications from minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities.
To preserve the safety and security of the campus community and to maintain the integrity of university operations, it is the policy of Wright State University to make an employment offer contingent on various background checks, such as a criminal record, credit history when job related and/or education verifications. Additionally, an administrative review shall be conducted whenever the university learns that an employee is charged with or convicted of a crime (except for minor vehicle violations). Frequently asked questions related to background checks may be found on the Human resources website at http://www.wright.edu/human-resources.
Effective July 1, 2017, per Policy 7230 Wright State University is tobacco-free. Tobacco use, including the sale, advertising sampling and distribution of tobacco products and tobacco related items is prohibited in all university facilities, on all university owned or leased grounds, university owned or operated residence halls and apartments, and at all university sponsored events regardless of location. Tobacco use is also prohibited in all university vehicles or on any equipment owned, leased or operated by Wright State University. This policy applies to anyone on campus including students, faculty, staff, visitors, consultants, vendors, patients, volunteers, and contractor employees.
Special Instructions to Applicants |
Posting Date | 05/30/2025
First Consideration Date: | 06/09/2025
Closing Date |
Open Until Filled | Yes
Supplemental Questions
Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).
- * Do you have a Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or closely related field with a minimum of one year of relevant work experience in accounting or finance?
- Yes
- No
- * Do you have a Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of accounting/finance work experience?
- Yes
- No
- * How did you hear about this position at Wright State University? Please check all that apply.
- WSU Careers website
- Academic Careers
- Academic Keys
- Chronicle
- Diversity in Higher Ed
- Diverse Issues in Higher Ed
- HBCU
- Higher Ed Jobs
- Inside Higher Ed
- Social Media
- Personal referral
- Women in Higher Ed
- Other
- Job Fair or Hiring Event
Required Documents
Required Documents
- Cover Letter
- Resume/CV
Optional Documents
- References
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