Student Accounts Specialist IV

Do you enjoy working in a fast paced office, which is meaningful, and satisfying, where you can express your unwavering faith on behalf of students and one another? Than Student Accounts Specialist might just be for you. It's where you can put students first, be in a good-humored, positive team atmosphere, and be able to apply logic and deductive reasoning.

Job Purpose

This position is primarily responsible for business and accounting related tasks that bridge Student Accounts and Financial Affairs offices. These duties include, but are not limited to: managing tuition and fee allocations and reallocations, student refunds and related federal compliance, bank-failed student account transactions, reconciliations, audits, batch uploads, general ledger related system set-up and related testing and implementations. In addition position will export system data, analyze and delegate actions based on the results, assist with IRS reporting.

Job Impact

The distribution of tuition income to the general ledger will allow the university to better evaluate and understand our income position and subsequently to make impactful and fiscally intentional decisions. This new initiative is complex and if not accurate or cohesively handled, data could be skews and negative financial impacts could result. This position will also manage Title IV federal excess funds refunds, compliance and have responsibility for refund related student customer services. This responsibility influences our ability to continue to deliver federal aid, borrow funds, and other areas impacted by federal audit finding. Furthermore, each semester, refunds of excess funds to our students for living expenses and books is critical to their livelihood and retention.

Essential Responsibilities

• Manage general ledger (GL) tuition allocation and reallocation. Set-up, test and implement.
• Manage all aspects of student refunds and related federal compliance requirements
• Respond to and resolve student banking issues and direct deposit challenges
• Prepare for, lead, troubleshoot and resolve reconciliation, reporting and audit requirements.
• Manage all aspects of electronic payments such as payroll deduction, ACH, Cash Net, International Funds Transfers (IFT's), and bank wires.
• Oversee and batch departmental fees and fines and respond to inquiries about income.

Associated Responsibilities

• GL aspects of Item Type creation, combination edits and updates.
• Oversee record retention and conversion to paperless records.
• Other duties as assigned
• Communicate effectively and courteously with others, including employees, students and the public, in a spirit of teamwork, respect and customer service.
• By actions, words and lifestyle, be a Christian role model to students, whether through casual contact or in a formal supervisory role.

Assigned Processes

• Title IV Refund Compliance
• Manage, edit and schedule queries relating to job requirements.
• Banking Systems, currently Bank of America Single Point System
• PeopleSoft batch uploads
• Tuition allocation.
• Mass assignment and release of service indicators.
• Refunds by Direct Deposit, Cash and Check
• GL Interface and related processes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3 - 4 years of Experience Required.
• Full time .75 FTE position, Monday- Friday 8am-3pm
• Expertise working with diverse students and employees

As a Christ-centered community, George Fox University is an institution that values diversity as an essential dimension of God's design for human communities. In seeking to become a more inclusive community, we especially encourage applications from women and candidates from racial and ethnic backgrounds that are underrepresented on our faculty.

For Your Personal Well-Being We Offer:

• A beautiful and peaceful campus environment with areas to walk and coffee shops and restaurants close by
• A strong Christian vision and mission-led organization with opportunities for your growth and contributions
• Wonderful Christian peers and a vibrant student population
• Free Fitness Center membership
• Free parking
• Rich employee benefits

We invite you to Be Known at Oregon's Nationally Recognized Christian University!

George Fox has been transforming student lives for over 125 years.

Each day we look to broaden our future for generations to come.

We have alumni from 52 countries and all 50 states.

We invite you to become a steward of our dreams using your God-given gifts.

Our Purpose: To educate and inspire students to pursue God's calling.

 **This position is subject to close at any time, regardless of the date on the posting.

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