The Campus Controller’s Office at CU Boulder welcomes applications for a Property Accounting Specialist! The University of Colorado Boulder is a Tier One, nationally competitive research university with a $2.00B annual operating budget. The University is focused on cultivating its instruction and research, increasing its innovative impact at the national and international level through collaboration, transformation, and leadership.
The Campus Controller’s Office (CCO) provides critical support to the mission by ensuring fiscal responsibility, accurate financial reporting, and compliance with laws, regulations, policies/procedures, and contract requirements. This full-time position reports to the Debt and Asset Manager within the Campus Controller’s Office and works closely with campus departmental finance and accounting staff.
This CU Boulder Debt & Asset Management Team exists to: provide accounting control and fiscal reporting for areas affected by the PeopleSoft Financial System, People Soft Asset Management (PSAM) subsystem, Financed Purchase Liability System and Cash Processing System. This unit monitors the validity of all transactions, including departmental subsystems and allocations, into the PeopleSoft Financial system, as well as coordinating system closes with the Systems Controllers Office. This unit also capitalizes all capital expenditures and related liabilities into investment in Plant; controls state appropriated capital construction in the Colorado Financial Reporting System (CORE); and controls non-state capital construction in the University accounting system.
The objective of this unit is to maintain the fiscal integrity of these systems and ensure compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and Federal and State rules and regulations. While accomplishing this mission, this unit provides quality customer service in a mutually supportive environment within the University community.
This position exists to assure the fiscal integrity of the Property Accounting Fixed Assets Equipment by analyzing, verifying, and managing the Property Accounting System (PSAM), The Property Accounting Specialist accounts for Financed Purchase Liabilities and manages the equipment tagging process, and their relationship to PeopleSoft Financial system by applying Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Federal Acquisition Regulations, State Fiscal Rules, GASB, and University policies and procedures. This position also exists to compile, analyze and prepare monthly journal entries for financed purchases and to compile and analyze and prepare year-end journal entries and work papers.
The University of Colorado Boulder is committed to building a culturally diverse community of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to contributing to an inclusive campus environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.