Sr. Finance Manager

Full time

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DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for the oversight and management of all accounting, General Ledger systems, month-end and year-end close, fiscal controls, audit oversight and coordination with staff.

• Establish, train and implement, and monitor all accrual-based accounting policies, procedures, protocols, and practices according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles as implemented at a non-profit institution of Higher Education.

• Handle general ledger transactions (journals, adjusting entries) and reconciliations or reviews to maintain an integrated accounting system and maintain integrity of accounting data.

• Maintain appropriate records and transaction audit trails for all disbursements and receipts, including credit card transactions generated by on-line systems feeding into various other software systems used to capture student, donor, and public interactions

• Manage all period-end closing including preparation of all supporting documentation; for year-end close prepare all audit schedules, audit footnotes and other analyses as required.

• Review transactions for alignment with institutional fiscal controls; review, develop and implement with training new or revised fiscal controls

• Track compliance with the government auditing standards towards monitoring of fiscal controls.

• Contribute to the diversity of the institution by bringing a perspective, way of thinking, and/or a unique set of experiences that expand the intellectual conversations and practices in the field.

• Provide reconciliations and reviews of AP transactions and entries as integrated into general ledger system.

• Other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities:

• Supervise and develop the business office staff which include:

o Accounting Specialist who focuses on processing all accounts payables and payroll.

o Student Accounts who collects student tuition

o Fiscal Analyst Bank and Institutional Account Management

• Conduct monthly bank and institutional account reconciliations.

• Problem-solve discrepancies and adjust processes to deter from recurrence.
• Develop and maintain professional business relationships with various banking institutions to provide excellent customer service from those institutions.

• Handle daily cash management including accessing line of credit and payback, estimates of cash needs and other cash flow analyses. Tracking and Reconciliations of Investments

• Conduct monthly reconciliations of investment accounts, splitting investments between various categories of unrestricted, temporarily restricted, and permanently restricted funds.

• Maintain records towards release from retention of any restricted funds

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• Fixed assets management

• Maintain fixed assets listing and inventories; develop and calculate depreciation, accumulated depreciation, and all other general ledger transactions related to fixed asset accounting

• Coordinate fixed asset inventories. Coordination of Data Capture and Analysis

• Assist with data capture, analysis, and transfer to and from the General Ledger or related accounting modules as needed.

• Execute and maintain systems allowing for institutional data capture, analysis and transfer that affect or are affected by general ledger data.

• Participate in developing new methodologies for effective data collection using accounting tools and other systems so that integrity is assured for institutional data sets that depend on accounting and budget tracking data. Communication/Coordination/Customer Service Focus

• The success of the position will be based on the ability to develop effective partnerships to further the financial functions of AMA OED, effectively communicate complex ideas, issues, and processes, provide expert financial advice while encouraging budget managers to maintain their individual stewardship and accountability

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

•masters in accounting or related field ,CPA is preferred

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• 3 years of experience with accounting in Higher Education with nonprofit experience preferred

• Extensive experience with bookkeeping and accounting services using fund accounting principles; intimate familiarity with non-profit Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, including general or specific familiarity with auditing standards

• Demonstrated excellence in communications--both written and oral required; ability to make presentations to small and large groups for training or informational sharing purposes.
• Work history of handling detailed, complicated transactions with accuracy, speed, and clarity of process.
• Commitment to sensible, workable solutions for transaction processes across the institution, including either awareness of or interest in continuous process improvement and other hallmarks of best-inclass institutions.
• Anticipates, understands, and responds to the needs of internal and external clients to meet or exceed their expectations
• Work habit that is structured, but flexible to deal with situations that arise on a regular ad hoc basis.
• •Knowledge of accounting systems setup, maintenance, and administration is preferred.
• Clean, proficient record keeping and meticulous attention to detail required.

AMA Computer University is the first and largest ICT University in Asia with an annual student population of 150,000 and more than 200 campuses in the Philippines and other parts of the world.

As the pioneer of computer education in the Philippines, it was the first to offer courses in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, the first to offer e-Learning, the first to provide one-to-one student-to-computer ratio, the first computer university to offer Mechatronics, the first school in the Philippines to have received ISO 9001 Certification, the first Premier Education Partner of Microsoft, the first and exclusive training partner of Avaya, and the first to branch out to key cities and municipalities in the Philippines.

To date, only AMA has developed on-line learning in the Philippines. It is also the first school in the country that is developing a University town comparable to Harvard, MIT and others in the world.

Since its establishment in 1980, AMA has graduated more than 160,000 students who are now gainfully employed in top IT companies all over the world, a development that made a name for the Philippines as the leading provider of competent computer manpower in Asia.

AMA Computer University is the first and largest ICT University in Asia with an annual student population of 150,000 and more than 200 campuses in the Philippines and other parts of the world.

As the pioneer of computer education in the Philippines, it was the first to offer courses in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, the first to offer e-Learning, the first to provide one-to-one student-to-computer ratio, the first computer university to offer Mechatronics, the first school in the Philippines to have received ISO 9001 Certification, the first Premier Education Partner of Microsoft, the first and exclusive training partner of Avaya, and the first to branch out to key cities and municipalities in the Philippines.

To date, only AMA has developed on-line learning in the Philippines. It is also the first school in the country that is developing a University town comparable to Harvard, MIT and others in the world.

Since its establishment in 1980, AMA has graduated more than 160,000 students who are now gainfully employed in top IT companies all over the world, a development that made a name for the Philippines as the leading provider of competent computer manpower in Asia.

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