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 

About Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University remains committed to its founding principle, that education for all students should be grounded in exploration and discovery. Hopkins students are challenged not just to learn but also to advance learning itself. Critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and entrepreneurship are all encouraged and nourished in this unique educational environment. After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Faculty members and their research colleagues at the university's Applied Physics Laboratory have each year since 1979 won Johns Hopkins more federal research and development funding than any other university. The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Education and the Carey Business School are based at the Homewood campus in northern Baltimore. The schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing share a campus in east Baltimore with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Institute, a leading professional school of music, is located on Mount Vernon Place in downtown Bal...timore. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is located in Washington's Dupont Circle area.

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