Job Description
Accountant I Job no: 508865
Position type: Full-Time 12-Month
Department: 192900 - nSPARC
Location: Main Campus - Starkville, MS
Categories: Professional
Position Open Date: Feb 11 2025
Position Function: The National Strategic Planning & Analysis Research Center (NSPARC) at Mississippi State University invites applications for an Accountant. The successful candidate will work in a team environment and perform standard accounting functions such as reconciling, preparing adjusting and closing journal entries, and preparing internal and external financial reports as needed.
Salary Grade : 14
Please see Staff Compensation Structure or Skilled Crafts and Service Maintenance Compensation Schedule for salary ranges. For salary grade UC, these positions are "Unclassified" and salary ranges are determined by the hiring department.
Department Profile: National Strategic Planning & Analysis Research Center (NSPARC) conducts research and creates customized solutions in areas of economic, workforce, business, and community development.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 1. Monitors revenue and expenses for departmental accounts; ensures expenditure control and compliance with funding and reporting requirements, university policy, and standard accounting procedures.
2. Constructs routine spreadsheet applications, prepares financial data, and generates reports.
3. Coordinates the preparation of regularly scheduled and special billings, costs reports, analyses, studies, inventories, and financial statements for local, state, federal and private funding sources.
4. Reviews and approves expenditure, personnel, and purchasing documents for availability of funding, mathematical correctness, and compliance with university policy and state and federal funding requirements.
5. Analyzes, reconciles, balances, and maintains accounting records; develops budgets and special financial reports.
6. Prepares, reviews, and processes budget, revenue, expense, payroll, and related correcting entries and may prepare bank reconciliations of intermediate complexity.
7. Instructs department members in unrestricted and restricted funding requirements and methods and provides information for budget development.
8. Performs related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, or related discipline. No experience required.
Preferred Qualifications: 1. Bachelor's degree in accounting.
2. Working knowledge of Banner.
3. Familiarity with University policies and procedures.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: 1. Knowledge of standard and/or fund accounting principles, methods, and applications.
2. Ability to effectively communicate accounting information, policies, and/or procedures in a manner easily understood by the customer.
3. Knowledge of computerized information systems used in financial and/or accounting applications.
4. Account balancing and reconciling skills.
5. Ability to set up and maintain financial accounts and ledgers.
6. Spreadsheet software skills to quantify and illustrate routine financial reports, statements, and/or projections.
7. Knowledge of general accounting principles.
8. Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control procedures.
9. Ability to supervise and train assigned staff.
10. Ability to analyze and interpret financial date and prepare financial reports, statements and/or projections.
Working Conditions and Physical Effort •No or very limited physical efforts required.
•No or very limited exposure to physical risk.
•Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment.
Instructions for Applying: Link to apply:
Applicants should complete online application at and upload a cover letter and current resume. Applicants should also submit two letters of recommendation (mailed by authors separately to NSPARC) and an official transcript for terminal degree and terminal diploma (provide English translation if necessary).
Address all supporting materials and reference letters to:
Chair, Accountant Selection Committee
National Strategic Planning & Analysis Research Center
P.O. Box 6027
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Restricted Clause: Position is contingent upon continued availability of funding.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Mississippi State University is an equal opportunity institution. Discrimination is prohibited in university employment, programs or activities based on race, color, ethnicity, sex, pregnancy, religion, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, genetic information, status as a U.S. veteran, or any other status to the extent protected by applicable law. Questions about equal opportunity programs or compliance should be directed to the Office of Civil Rights Compliance, 231 Famous Maroon Band Street, P.O. 6044, Mississippi State, MS 39762, (662) 325-5839.
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Advertised: Feb 11 2025 Central Standard Time
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