Accounting Assistant Manager​/Team Lead MSU

Overview

The Service Team Lead (STL) manages a team of 3-6 financial analysts who deliver excellent fiscal support and analysis to various departments across the MSU Bozeman campus. The STL is a critical member of the Fiscal Shared Services (FSS) ecosystem that contributes to the development of coherent and effective fiscal processes and procedures while mentoring and developing a team of subject matter experts.

The STL is a dynamic leader who provides their team with the skills and support to succeed.

Position Number: 4M1180
Department:
Fiscal Shared Services
Division:
University Business Services - Financial Services
Appointment Type:
Classified
Contract Term:
Fiscal Year
FTE: 1.0
Benefits Eligible:
Eligible
Salary: $27.30 - $34.13 per hour, commensurate with experience, education, and qualifications
Position Status:
Exempt from Collective Bargaining
Union Affiliation:
Exempt from Collective Bargaining
Recruitment Type:
Campus

• Lead and manage a team of finance professionals, sustaining an effective, high-performing team that provides excellent customer service to client departments.
• Ensure the smooth and efficient flow of work through the team and clear communications with client units, providing accurate services in a highly responsive manner.
• Ensure accounting is compliant with state and federal rules, generally accepted accounting principles, governmental accounting, and financial reporting standards.
• Research and make judgments and interpretations on policy and compliance questions with support from other team leads and management structure.
• Ensure the quality of the team’s work: auditing, reviewing, and approving reports, corrections, invoices, payments, and other transactions as needed.
• Develop and lead training sessions for staff amongst the client user groups and provide direct support and training for new hires throughout the client user groups regarding accounting procedures.
• Develop and maintain thorough documentation of procedures for the team.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of client units sufficient to understand goals. Service to Clients
• Provide excellent customer service in accordance with MSU’s Service Excellence culture.
• Provide accurate financial information to client units, assisting with questions, communications, transactions, reports, policy interpretations, etc. as needed.

• Must be a current MSU-Bozeman employee
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
• Progressively responsible experience in accounting or fiscal management
• Demonstrated leadership and management skills to successfully supervise staff

• Demonstrated experience in supervising staff, utilizing strong leadership and management skills
• Experience performing financial reporting and analysis, utilizing computerized accounting systems, spreadsheets, databases, and word-processing software

• Demonstrated flexibility and ability to lead a team through rapid changes
• Work effectively with a broad range of constituencies including students, staff, faculty, university administrators, funding agencies, and professional organizations
• Demonstrated project management skills and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously
• Demonstrated clear, concise, and professional written and oral communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to clearly explain technical information to a non-technical audience
• Analytical skills to identify and assess potential opportunities to enhance operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness of an organization

This job description should not be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements, but a general description of the job. Nothing contained herein restricts Montana State University’s rights to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

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