Systems Accountant

Department

Office of the Controller

Summary

The System’s Accountant serves as a functional and technical accounting expert for MSU Denver’s financial systems, with primary responsibility for ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and effectiveness of financial data within Workday and related systems. This role bridges accounting operations and system configuration by supporting financial processes, testing system enhancements, maintaining internal controls, and providing reporting and reconciliation support across the University. The System’s Accountant plays a key role in system governance, process improvement, and ensuring compliance with GASB standards, University policy, and state and federal requirements.

Duties/Responsibilities

Financial Systems Administration and Support (40%)

•  Responsible for successful system integrations into and out of Workday Finance including but not limited to: the bank, payroll, accounts payable, Cashnet, CORE, and accounts receivable on a daily, monthly and annual basis.  This includes, in part, reconciling, identifying and resolving any integration errors as they occur, running analytical reports to identify discrepancies, and completing the year end reconciliation of accounts receivable balances to the financial statements, which is audited. 
•  Ensures all operational and manual journals are posted timely and not in error status, which includes actively looking for and resolving such errors.
• Resolves any Workday Finance system errors or inefficiencies including but not limited to process mapping, posting rule sets, and other non-feed issues. 
• Creating, modifying, and closing financial worktags within the Workday ERP system ensuring consistency in structure, use and reportability.  This includes leading campus departments in such goals.
•  Lead system testing, validation, and deployment for Workday releases, patches, and new functionality related to Workday Finance in collaboration with OTC, ITS and other functional partners.
• Cross functional liaison for integrations tied to the implementation of the Workday Student Information System (SIS) as it relates to the finance module. Coordinating with other areas on campus and ensuring accurate and timely financial information as it feeds from the student side. 
•  Oversees the setup and maintenance of storefronts in collaboration with the Cashiering and Bursar’s Offices and ensures that it feeds over correctly into Workday.
• Serves as the subject matter expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it is leveraged in the OTC by keeping up to date with new functionality and working with the OTC and campus departments to implement AI in a meaningful way. 
•  Run and verify settlements in Workday for all University payments and print related checks.

2.    Journal Entries & AR 10% 

• Process all overhead allocations monthly ensuring their accuracy and timeliness. 
• Review worktag usage for correct combinations ensuring accuracy before feeding to CORE.
• Process entries to clear balances in worktags that are intended to be closed.
• Miscellaneous journal entries as needed to record integration and feed corrections and other entries assigned by their supervisor. 

3. Support Fund Accountant (20%)

Backs up and assists the fund accountant as needed for the following duties : 

• Quarterly internal revenue and expense elimination entries, records negative AR in the non-contract auxiliary funds and unapplied payments, and reconciles all prepaid expenses and deferred revenue. 
• Revenue & Billing Management for non-student AR invoicing and the recording and reconciliation of these accounts. To maintain separation of duties, this position will coordinate with other settlement specialists and the students to ensure that settlements and deposits are covered by someone other than the Systems Accountant on days that the System Accountant is covering this duty.
• Auxiliary & Agency management through expense transfers, auditing worktags for accuracy, and performing analytical reviews of agency balances and department data. 
• Creating, setting up, monitoring, closing, and the reconciliation of the travel abroad auxiliaries, including coordinating related refund information. 
• Calculate and issue payment requests and process any related journal entries for all inter agency partners, student health payments, beverage analytics, and bookstore. Examples include but are not limited to the Auraria Higher Education Center, the Community College of Denver, and the University of Colorado at Denver, Book Store, Capitation Fee and Health Insurance Premium from Bursar. This includes the corresponding reconciliations for the related payments. 

4. Reporting and Analytics (20%)

• Design, maintain, and distribute financial reports and dashboards to support management and compliance needs.

5. Controls, Compliance, and Documentation (5%)

• Maintain documentation for financial system processes, configurations, and internal controls.
• Support audit requests related to financial systems, interfaces, and data reliability.
• Evaluate business processes to ensure compliance with University policy, GASB standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Assist in the development of system-related policies and procedures.
• Make non-student AR deposits to ensure separation of duties. 

6. Other duties as assigned (5%)

Required Qualifications 

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in accounting or computer information systems (Full-time professional accounting experience may substitute for the bachelor’s degree (2 years of experience is equivalent to one year of Education) in accounting or CIS degree); however, if the candidate holds a CIS degree then professional accounting experience or 20 hours of accounting credits are required.
• Experience in systems integrations or similar work in an integrated financial system similar to Workday. 
• Experience creating and modifying financial reports  
• Professional experience performing reconciliations 
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel. 
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills. 

Important Note: Successful applicants will ensure their resumes clearly demonstrate that their work experience describes how they meet ALL required qualifications.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Workday Finance Experience. 
• Experience in using, prompting, or coding with Artificial Intelligence.
• Experience in Higher Education accounting. 
• Previous experience programming or creating and analyzing reports in Workday, Office Connect

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every preferred qualification. We are most interested in candidates who will best contribute to the University. 

Work Hours

Closing Date

Open Until Filled

Posting Representative

Sophia J Montano

Posting Representative Email

smontan7@msudenver.edu

Benefits

The University’s benefits package is comprehensive and offers medical, vision and dental, free RTD pass, tuition reimbursement, as well as a life and supplemental insurance plans, retirement plans and other programs, such as access to a long-term disability (LTD) plan. Visit MSU Denver’s benefits website to learn more.   

For a brief overview, please see: https://www.msudenver.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/MSU-Benefit-Summary.pdf. 

The University will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities throughout the employment application process. To request an accommodation pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, please contact the Human Resources ADA Coordinator at totalrewards@msudenver.edu.

Background Checks

Metropolitan State University of Denver is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our faculty, staff, students, and visitors.  To Assist in achieving that goal, we conduct background checks on all finalists for positions at the University prior to employment.

Diversity Statement

Metropolitan State University of Denver is a unique, access-oriented campus community that values diversity, equity, and inclusion in all its forms. Our student population consists of nearly 58% first generation students and over 50% students of color. We are a designated Hispanic Serving Institution located in downtown Denver.

We create an equitable learning and working environment in concert with individuals who consistently demonstrate commitment to equity and inclusion. We greatly value the diverse identities and perspectives of our students, faculty, and staff and recognize that in order to achieve a just and equitable society, diversity must go beyond simple representation. It requires critical inquiry and dialogue and a commitment to action. We strive to provide a culture of belonging for all community members to achieve personal and professional success.