Bursar/Director of Student Accounting Salary $105,000.00 - $115,000.00 Annually
Location: Main Campus (Liberty Heights) Job Type: Full-Time Staff Job Number: 202500154 Department: Bursar Opening Date: 02/02/2026 FLSA Exempt Bargaining Unit: N/A
Description Benefits About Baltimore City Community College
Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) is a comprehensive, urban institution accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The College's campus is located in West Baltimore and courses are offered throughout the City. With its broad range of degree, certificate, and continuing education programs, affordable tuition, and extensive outreach, BCCC offers educational opportunities to the citizens of Baltimore City and throughout the state of Maryland.
BCCC serves over 7,500* students annually, providing credits that transfer to four-year colleges and universities as well as workforce training leading directly to job placement. The College is proud of the fact that over 50 nations are represented within the student body.
Description/Job Summary
The Bursar is a senior-level position responsible for providing oversight for the staff and managing the office, budget, programs, and student accounting services for Baltimore City Community College. The Bursar reports to the VP for Finance and Administration or designee and is responsible for providing leadership, vision, planning, and direction.
This position is responsible for the overall operations of student financial services, billing and receivables, and cashiering functions of the College. The Bursar provides direction and leadership in financial management, fiscal policy review and changes; ensures compliance with College, State, and Federal regulations and standard accounting procedures.
The Bursar oversees supervision of the office staff, including but not limited to allocation of duties, training, and problem resolution; evaluates performance and makes recommendations for personnel actions. The Bursar ensures staff are familiar with office policies and procedures and establishes internal controls. The Bursar must bring leadership and will operate as a collaborative and strategic thinker who demonstrates integrity and confidentiality.
Responsibilities/Duties
• Oversees the overall operations of student financial services, billing and receivables, and cashiering functions of the College; • Manages the departmental budget; • Provides professional-level financial reports; • Audits, analyzes, and reconciles student accounts for accuracy and compliance with all pertinent procedures and regulations, identifies weaknesses in internal controls and safeguards assets; • Retrieves and verifies data; • Ensures proper recording and accounting of financial transactions to include registration feeds, financial aid awards, refunds, billings, waivers, student accounts receivable, collections, and disbursements; • Oversees reconciliation of all funds received including electronic funds transfers and via mail; • Posts and returns Chapter 33 Veteran's Administration payments as needed; • Provides direction and leadership for fiscal policy review; • Conducts special studies as required; • Ensures compliance with College, state, and federal regulations; • Provides periodic reports of receipts and technical information to the college community and to external funding agencies; • Recommends and participates in the development of College policies and procedures; • May serve on college planning and policymaking committees; • Assures customer-oriented staff interaction with students, parents, and administrators; • Interacts with internal and external auditors, participates in auditing projects, or provides information and access to accounting records as required; • Establishes and implements short- and long-range organizational goals, objectives, strategic plans, policies, and operating procedures; • Monitors and evaluates programmatic and operational effectiveness, and effects changes required for improvement; • Designs, establishes, and maintains an organizational structure and staffing to effectively accomplish the Colleges goals and objectives; • Oversees recruitment, training, supervision, and evaluation of Bursar staff; • Represents the College to various institutional divisions as well as externally to governmental agencies, vendors, students, and their parents, and/or the general public; • Plans, develops, and implements strategies for generating resources and/or revenues for the College; • Develops, implements, and maintains departmental policies and procedures and ensuring Title IV regulatory compliance; • Supervises student accounting, cashiering, and record-keeping function to collect student fees, fines, and loan payments; • Coordinates purge function, payment plans, and other options for student payments; • Institutes collection proceeding as necessary for payment plans, defaults, non-sufficient fund checks, and others debt; • Coordinates refund and debt processing for student payments and student services with other offices (financial aid, records, and registration); • Manages student billing disputes; • Represents the College at hearings with the central collection agency regarding student defaulted accounts; • Ensures the College procedures are in compliance with State, Federal, and College regulations; • Maintains working knowledge of compliance with current federal cash disbursement regulations; • Determines cash needs for Federal Financial Aid programs, and for coordinating cash requests from the Department of Education; • Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business or related field from an accredited college or university; Minimum of ten (10) years of progressive, relevant work experience in student accounting services, budgeting, and accounting operations; Seven (7) years of supervisory experience managing a Bursar, student accounting office; Demonstrated experience in a higher education setting.
BCCC is committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination or harassment. We expect every member of the BCCC community to do their part to cultivate and maintain an environment where everyone has the opportunity to feel included and is afforded the respect and dignity they deserve.
Decisions related to hiring, compensating, training, evaluating performance, or terminating are made fairly. We examine our unconscious biases and take responsibility for always striving to create an inclusive environment that makes every employee and candidate feel welcome.
BCCC is the only community college in Baltimore City, one of 16 community colleges in Maryland, and both a higher education institution and a State of Maryland agency.
As a state agency, the College is able to offer full-time, permanent PIN employees a host of benefits including a competitive salary and tuition remission. New College PIN employees will be invited to discuss benefit options with a personnel officer.
Benefits extended to all full-time PIN employees are as follows:
State of Maryland health plans: (PPO, EPO, and/or HMO medical plans), vision and dental plans (PPO or DHMO) Retirement Plans: include the State Employees' Pension, Teachers Pension Systems, Optional Retirement Programs (ORP) and the Law Enforcement Officer Pension System. Supplemental Retirement Plans - 401(k), 403(b) and 457 Leave: 22 days of Annual Leave, 15 days of Sick Leave, 3 Personal Leave days, Leave Bank membership opportunities, 9 Holidays and a Winter Holiday break (5 days) observed between the Christmas and New Years Day holidays. Tuition Remission to institutions within the University System of Maryland (USM) Professional Development opportunities
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Employer Baltimore City Community College (MD) Address: 2901 Liberty Heights Avenue Baltimore, Maryland, 21215 Website: https://www.bccc.edu/