Financial Reporting Accountant

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Financial Reporting Accountant

Overview:

Are you passionate about analytics, numbers, and providing meaningful financial support to empower and inform leaders? Do you thrive when faced with complex problems? The Mercatus Center at George Mason University seeks a Financial Reporting Accountant to join our Finance team. The candidate will provide financial reporting and analysis support to both the Mercatus Center and our sister organization, the Institute for Humane Studies.

Responsibilities include:

• Complying with standard accounting procedures and policies to maintain healthy and transparent organizations.
• Collaborating closely with budget owners to confirm accurate coding of expenses and revenue.
• Preparing reconciliations, journal entries, and special reports to facilitate insightful and expedient business decisions.
• Maintaining balance sheet schedules including fixed assets, payroll, tax withholdings, and benefits.
• Assisting with annual agency submissions (990, property tax).
• Innovating and enhancing the finance system with database administrators.
   

Qualifications:

• 2-3 years of accounting/finance experience; knowledge of non-profit general ledger systems and budgeting is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Discretion and integrity to handle sensitive materials appropriately.
• Self-motivated with a positive attitude; embracing a challenge culture.
• Excellent communication, customer focus, and interpersonal skills.
• Attention to detail, highly organized.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel.
• Salesforce experience preferred.
• Proven track record of timeliness and reliability.

About the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University:

The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) supports and partners with university professors working within the classical liberal intellectual tradition. Our vision is that higher education becomes a place where the open exchange of ideas flourishes, and where ideas within the classical liberal tradition are regularly taught, discussed, challenged, and developed so that they inform scholarly and public discourse on the key challenges facing a free society.

Each year, IHS provides thousands of aspiring and established professors graduate student fellowships, career development support, research funding, and support for on-campus student programs. Most importantly, through its scholarly convenings IHS connects these scholars to one another to form a diverse and growing community of thought leaders advancing ideas essential to the good society—a pluralistic and tolerant society in which individuals and communities flourish in a context of openness, dignity, equality, and freedom.

Benefits:

We have a flexible, professional, open office environment that encourages innovation and entrepreneurship and provides substantial opportunity for professional growth. Salary is competitive and will be commensurate with experience. IHS provides exceptional benefits to all employees, including health and dental insurance coverage (which includes paying 100% of the health and dental insurance premium for individuals), health savings accounts, long-term disability and life insurance, a 403(b) retirement savings program, a parking permit and 12 free tuition credit hours annually at George Mason University.