Financial Systems and Accounting Close Responsibilities

  • Serve as custodian of the University’s general ledger system, maintain general ledger system business process controls, security access, account structure, report writer, allocation, and average-daily-cash-balance functionality.
  • Coordinate, monitor, and verify journal entry data sent from other systems to the general ledger.  Provide guidance, education, training, and trouble-shooting support to owners of these systems to implement and maintain an accurate and efficient process.
  • Serve as custodian of the department’s related accounting transactional online applications and their underlying tables, GL  and Cumulative Compensation online reports and their corresponding data warehouse tables.  Maintain business process controls and security access, identify issues and provide error resolution.
  • Coordinate and process month and year-end general ledger closings and distribute related electronic financial reports. See: Calendar & Close Deadlines