We are seeking a Fund Accountant who will monitor and ensures compliance to the fund accounting, balance sheet management, and philanthropic funds processes for the School of Medicine.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Coordinates

• Monitor all fund types to ensure appropriate and accurate accounting, balance sheet management, including philanthropic restricted funds.
• Advise fund deployment opportunities and fund balance by source for spend opportunities.
• Monitor balance sheet fund reconciliations to ensure deficits across funds do not exist. 

Applies

• Apply understanding of JHU and SOM policy as well as GASB regulations around fund management.

Creates/Prepares/Develops

• Prepare financial statements and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Assist with budgeting, forecasting, long-range plans, and 'what-if' scenarios as needed.

Analyzes/Interprets

• Analyze financial statements and fund performance to inform fund balance and deployment decisions and perform reconciliations, report preparation, and analyses.

Manages

• Manage the fund accounting, balance sheet management, and philanthropic funds processes.
• Prepare balance sheet fund reconciliations, perform funds maintenance, prepare financial reports, and conduct analyses.

Problem Solving 

• Ensure compliance to laws, regulations, and policies around funds management.
• Alert leadership of potential fund balance issues and offer remediation strategies.

Thinking Critically

• Identify spend opportunities and provide fund balance and fund deployment advice for leadership.
• Suggest and implement enhancements to funds management and policies based on knowledge of the process and relevant compliance and other issues.

Trains/Communicates

• Ensure relevant stakeholders are aware of SOM and JHU policy as well as laws and regulations around fund management.

Collaborates

• Partner with Manager of Business Ops; FP&A colleagues; Faculty Practice Colleagues; research colleagues; Department Directors, Administrators, and Staff; University Controller; JHHS/JHM colleagues

Additional Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Understanding of and commitment to the Johns Hopkins Medicine mission.

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business, Finance or related field with no experience OR Bachelor's degree in unrelated field with two years of progressively responsible related experience.
• Additional education (related Master's degree) may substitute for required experience if bachelor's degree is in an unrelated field, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

• A minimum of two years of progressively responsible financial and business operations experience, preferably in a large and complex organization.
• Proven communication, organizational, and analytic skills in a complex organization.

Classified Title: Accountant 
Job Posting Title (Working Title): Fund Accountant   
Role/Level/Range: ATP/03/PB  
Starting Salary Range: $45,700 - $80,000 Annually ($63,000 targeted; Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: 37.50 
Exempt Status: Exempt 
Location: School of Medicine Campus 
Department name: ​​​​​​​SOM Admin Finance Operations  
Personnel area: School of Medicine