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Grand Canyon Education, Inc.

Accounting Associate - University Event Services

🇺🇸 Phoenix, AZ 🕑 Full-Time 💰 TBD 💻 Other 🗓️ March 16th, 2026

Edtech.com's Summary

Grand Canyon University is hiring an Accounting Associate - University Event Services. This role involves monitoring purchase and expense transactions, preparing spreadsheets and reports, completing journal entries, processing purchase orders and invoices, reconciling accounts, and supporting administrative tasks within the department.

Highlights
  • Monitor all purchase and expense-related transactions and review monthly budget reports for discrepancies.
  • Prepare spreadsheets for data review and expense reconciliation; complete monthly journal entries related to accruals and reclasses.
  • Generate weekly and monthly reports for management, department personnel, and accounting.
  • Process purchase orders, invoices, and expenses by obtaining authorized signatures and submitting to accounting.
  • Collaborate with accounting to reconcile cost center account adjustments and perform monthly Pcard reconciliations.
  • Use Microsoft Office applications, including Excel spreadsheets, word processing, database management, email, and electronic calendar.
  • Perform various administrative duties as assigned; no supervisory responsibilities.
  • Require a Bachelor's degree (preferably in accounting or business) and at least 2 years of relevant work experience.
  • Must pass a pre-employment background check.
  • Work environment is an on-site office building; physical requirements include sitting for 5-7 hours daily and occasional light physical activities.

Accounting Associate - University Event Services Full Description

Primary Responsibilities /Accountabilities/ Essential Functions:
  • Monitor all purchase and expense-related transactions. Reviews monthly budget accounting reports for discrepancies and informs direct manager.
  • Prepare spreadsheets for review and reconciliation of data against charged expenses. Completes monthly journal entries related to accruals and reclasses. Completes weekly and monthly reports for management, department personnel, and accounting.
  • Uses multiple technical applications including word processing, database management, spreadsheets, electronic calendar and e-mail.
  • Processes purchase order, invoices and expenses by getting authorized signatures and sending to designated accounting department.
  • Works with accounting department to reconcile any needed adjustments to cost centers' account. Reconciliation of Pcard monthly, gather and review receipts for accuracy from coordinators, doing any adjustments to cost centers or accounts, and submitting them for management approval.
  • Administrative duties as assigned.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Equipment Used and Responsibility
  • Microsoft Office Applications
  • Microsoft Excel spreadsheets

Supervisory Responsibilities 
None

Experience/Education
  • Bachelor's Degree required and minimum of 2 years' work experience similar to job responsibilities of this role.
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting or business Degree preferred.
  • Must be able to pass pre-employment background check.

Physical Requirements:
  • Sitting:     5-7 hours a day
  • Standing:  1-3 hours a day
  • Walking:   1-2 hours a day
  • Lifting:     Rarely
  • Carrying:  Occasionally
  • Pushing:   Occasionally
  • Bending:   Occasionally
  • Squatting: Rarely
  • Squatting: Frequently
  • Kneeling:    Rarely
  • Climbing:   Occasionally
  • Reaching:   Occasionally
  • Grasping:    Frequently
  • Fine Eye to Hand Coordination: Continuously
  • Driving:      Rarely
  • Work Environment: Office building on site.  Branches are primarily inside, subject to variations in temperature, equipment noise and dust.
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