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Fund Accountant

Employer
Johns Hopkins University
Location
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Salary
Competitive Salary
Date posted
Mar 14, 2024
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Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

We are seeking a Fund Accountant who will monitor and ensures compliance to the fund accounting, balance sheet management, and philanthropic funds processes for the School of Medicine.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities



Coordinates
  • Monitor all fund types to ensure appropriate and accurate accounting, balance sheet management, including philanthropic restricted funds.
  • Advise fund deployment opportunities and fund balance by source for spend opportunities.
  • Monitor balance sheet fund reconciliations to ensure deficits across funds do not exist.

Applies

  • Apply understanding of JHU and SOM policy as well as GASB regulations around fund management.

Creates/Prepares/Develops

  • Prepare financial statements and balance sheet reconciliations.
  • Assist with budgeting, forecasting, long-range plans, and 'what-if' scenarios as needed.

Analyzes/Interprets

  • Analyze financial statements and fund performance to inform fund balance and deployment decisions and perform reconciliations, report preparation, and analyses.

Manages

  • Manage the fund accounting, balance sheet management, and philanthropic funds processes.
  • Prepare balance sheet fund reconciliations, perform funds maintenance, prepare financial reports, and conduct analyses.

Problem Solving

  • Ensure compliance to laws, regulations, and policies around funds management.
  • Alert leadership of potential fund balance issues and offer remediation strategies.

Thinking Critically

  • Identify spend opportunities and provide fund balance and fund deployment advice for leadership.
  • Suggest and implement enhancements to funds management and policies based on knowledge of the process and relevant compliance and other issues.

Trains/Communicates

  • Ensure relevant stakeholders are aware of SOM and JHU policy as well as laws and regulations around fund management.

Collaborates

  • Partner with Manager of Business Ops; FP&A colleagues; Faculty Practice Colleagues; research colleagues; Department Directors, Administrators, and Staff; University Controller; JHHS/JHM colleagues

Additional Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

  • Understanding of and commitment to the Johns Hopkins Medicine mission.


Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business, Finance or related field with no experience OR Bachelor's degree in unrelated field with two years of progressively responsible related experience.
  • Additional education (related Master's degree) may substitute for required experience if bachelor's degree is in an unrelated field, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.


Preferred Qualifications
  • A minimum of two years of progressively responsible financial and business operations experience, preferably in a large and complex organization.
  • Proven communication, organizational, and analytic skills in a complex organization.

Classified Title: Accountant
Job Posting Title (Working Title): Fund Accountant
Role/Level/Range: ATP/03/PB
Starting Salary Range: $45,700 - $80,000 Annually ($63,000 targeted; Commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: 37.50
Exempt Status: Exempt
Location: School of Medicine Campus
Department name: ​​​​​​​SOM Admin Finance Operations
Personnel area: School of Medicine


The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

If you are interested in applying for employment with The Johns Hopkins University and require special assistance or accommodation during any part of the pre-employment process, please contact the HR Business Services Office at jhurecruitment@jhu.edu. For TTY users, call via Maryland Relay or dial 711.

The following additional provisions may apply depending on which campus you will work. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.

During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition of employment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employees who provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care or clinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination or possess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meet this requirement may result in termination of employment.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.

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