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.

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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 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.