Budget Financial Accountant

**Job Title** Budget Financial Accountant **Agency** Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service **Department** Administrative Support **Proposed Minimum Salary** Commensurate **Job Location** College Station, Texas **Job Type** Staff **Job Description** **About Texas A&M AgriLife** As the nation’s largest most comprehensive agriculture program, Texas A&M AgriLife brings together a college and four state agencies focused on agriculture and life sciences within The Texas A&M University System. With over 5,000 employees and a presence in every county across the state, Texas A&M AgriLife is uniquely positioned to improve lives, environments and the Texas economy through education, research, extension and service. Click [**here**](https://agrilife.tamu.edu/) to learn more about how _**you**_ can be a part of AgriLife and make a difference in the world! **Responsibilities:** \-Prepare and process day to day budget transfers entries as needed. \-Prepares fee-based program monthly accounting entries \-Analyze agency leave accounts and process monthly entries. \-Liaison for on-campus department business administrators for accounting and budget entries. \- Collaborate on the agencies annual budget, organizing and analyzing data from Workday, and PBA reconciling to agency worksheets. \-Assist in the preparation of the annual budget, to include budget allocations, year-end tasks (cleaning up and creating accounts), and allocation reconciliation. \-Assist in the preparation of applications for federal appropriation/award funding. \-Review federal and state accounts for expenditures, balances, and encumbrances. Prepare closing year end account payable budget entry. \-Assist with review, reconciling and monitoring of agency accounts, including federal capacity award accounts. \-Receive and approve salary savings forms as submitted by agency departments. Reconcile and distribute salary savings funds. \-Prepares monthly FAMIS upload entries for the credit card fees and EDE service fees associated with the AgriLife Learn and Register platforms. \-Analyze financial/budget data and develop reports.  -Monitor and manage agency queue in Canopy for payroll and department correction documents. \-Assist and provide backup to Financial Analyst for County Programs with day-to-day agent tasks as needed.   -Setup and monitor cost share for agency accounts, to include federal capacity award accounts. \-Responsible for setup and closing of agency state, local, and federal accounts. \-Create, maintain, and schedule business object templates and reports. \-Reviews and prepares payroll funding shifts through costing allocations and payroll correction transactions. \-Performs other duties as assigned. **Qualifications** **Required Education and Experience:** Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience plus an additional two (2) years of related experience. **Preferred Education:** Bachelor's degree in accounting. **Required Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:** \- Knowledge of word processing and spreadsheet applications. \- Ability to multitask and work cooperatively with others. \- Good verbal and written communication skills. \- Good analytical and organizational skills. \- Ability to work with large data sets. **Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:** \-FAMIS \-Excel/Excel Pivot Tables \-Business Objects \-Workday **Why Work at Texas A&M AgriLife?** When you choose to _**work**_ for Texas A&M AgriLife, you become part of an organization that is an established leader in agriculture and life sciences with a wide range of capabilities to meet the needs of our statewide, national, and international constituents. In addition, Texas A&M AgriLife offers a comprehensive benefit package including the following: * [Health, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance](https://www.tamus.edu/benefits/) with Texas A&M AgriLife contributing to employee health and basic life premiums  * 12-15 days of annual paid holidays   * Up to eight hours of paid sick leave and at least eight hours of paid vacation each month * Automatic enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas   * Employee Wellness Initiative for Texas A&M AgriLife **Applicant Instructions** Applications received by Texas A&M AgriLife must either have all job application data entered or a resume attached. Failure to provide all job application data or a complete resume could result in an invalid submission and a rejected application. We encourage all applicants to upload a resume or use a LinkedIn profile to prepopulate the online application. **Required Documents** Resume and Cover Letter. All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check. Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.