Job Title
Budget Financial Analyst I
Agency
Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service
Department
Administrative Support
Proposed Minimum Salary
Commensurate
Job Location
College Station, Texas
Job Type
Staff
Job Description
About Texas A&M AgriLife
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.
Click here to learn more about how you can be a part of AgriLife and make a difference in the world!
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.
All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution's verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution's procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.
Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.