Fund Accountant

We are seeking aFund 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.

• 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.

• 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