• Job Description

  Req#: 357055
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  Accountant I, Department of Internal Medicine
  Why UT Southwestern?
  With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued patients and employees. With over 20,000 employees, we are committed to continuing our growth with the best professionals in the healthcare industry. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for growth. Join UT Southwestern to help with our mission to educate, discover and heal through our life-changing research!
  Job Summary
  The Department of Internal Medicine is seeking an Accountant I to join their team. This role supports the accounting responsibilities of the divisions of Hospital Medicine, Geriatric, General Internal Medicine and Medical/Pediatric, which includes monthly reconciliation, compiling and analyzing data spreadsheets related to various financial activities.
  Job Duties
  • Posts and maintains ledger accounts.
  • Reconciles salary reports, bank statements, and general ledger trial balances.
  • Prepares deposit slips and maintains cash control records, basic profit and loss statements, and trial balances of subsidiary ledgers and reconciling discrepancies.
  • Calculates unit cost information and monthly billings for reimbursement of expenditures.
  • Assists in preparing more complex financial records and operating reports, preparing less complex special reports, and analyzing accounting data for planning estimates and other similar items.
  • May assist accounting clerks by clarifying work problems, such as allocation of income and expense, closing, correcting or adjusting journal entries, preparation of special exhibits and schedules, and other similar items.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
  Experience and Education
  Minimum Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree with no experience. OR
  • Associate’s degree with two (2) years of accounting related experience. OR
  • High school diploma or equivalent and four (4) years of experience in governmental and/or commercial accounting or auditing.
  Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
  Work requires ability to exercise moderate judgment in application and interpretation of policy, procedures, or practices to work problems of well-defined nature. Work requires knowledge of spreadsheets and word-processing software. Work requires ability to apply mathematical reasoning to analyze data and identify discrepancies in financial accounts. Work requires ability to utilize ten key by touch.
  Working Conditions
  Work is performed primarily in general office area.
  This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code §51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information. UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.
  
  5323 Harry Hines Blvd (5323H)
  5323 Harry Hines Blvd
  Dallas, 75390
  
  

• About the company

  The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is a public academic health science center in Dallas, Texas.

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