Accounts Rep V - Duffield College of Engineering
$61,256–$68,432 year
HybridIthaca, New York, United States
Ithaca, New York, United StatesHybridFull Time$61,256–$68,432 yearSenior LevelAssociates DegreeEnterprise
Full TimeSenior LevelAssociates DegreeEnterprise
Job Summary
Review, process, and approve financial transactions and e-documents while monitoring activity and monthly reports to ensure accuracy and compliance. Perform reconciliations, resolve discrepancies, and support fellowship administration, gift fund management, and graduate student appointment tracking. Track capital assets, maintain inventory reporting, and provide guidance on university financial policies to faculty, staff, and students. Contribute to audit readiness and stewardship of resources across multiple academic units. This hybrid role requires on-campus presence four days per week.
Required Qualifications
- Associate's degree in business, finance, or related field
- 4-6 years of experience or equivalent combination
- Friendly, outgoing, and strong customer service orientation
- Mac and PC proficiency
- Excel proficiency
- Word proficiency
- Kuali Financial System (KFS) or similar software proficiency
- Mainframe applications proficiency
- Ability to retrieve and manipulate data from multiple sources and online warehouses
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential data with discretion
- Ability to multitask and work within tight deadlines
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong logic skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects of varying complexity and urgency
- Ability to construct complex financial statements
- Understanding of the inter-relationships of data
- Excellent attention to detail
- Ability to cultivate and develop inclusive working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and community members
- Ability to work in an office with many interruptions
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in accounting/HR or related field
- Additional familiarity with Cornell University administration
- Additional familiarity with accounting
- Additional familiarity with budget structure
- Additional familiarity with procedures
- Additional familiarity with policies
- Successful completion of Cornell Accounting Certification Program
- Cornell Research Administration Certificate
- Similar external certification
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