SPA Award Setup Specialist
Location Type: Remote Eligible
Job Number: 811286
Category: Professional & Executive
Job Number: 811286
Category: Professional & Executive
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As one of the world’s foremost research institutions, UT Southwestern Medical Center is known for our life-changing research that has led us to 6 Nobel Prizes. With a career at UT Southwestern you will be a key part of our multidisciplinary research facility with opportunities to work with leaders in patient care and medical research.
UTSW Is seeking an Accountant III to join the Sponsored Programs (SPA) Award Setup team. The important function of this team is to interpret contracts and grants to facilitate setting up awards which originating in eGrants or eAgreements and then pushed through PeopleSoft. Tasks of this role include understanding the contract, budget (IDC, MTDC, etc), type of award funding, type of billing function as all of these will ensure the award is setup correctly for other teams and departments to accurately spend and track expenditures in our financial system of record. The setup team ensures many of the financial attributes are coded correctly to further reduce maintenance issues of the award sourcing. This team reviews compliance information (IRB and IACUC approvals) in accordance with Uniform Guidance and the Institution. This team works closely with members of the Pre-Award teams, other SPA finance teams as well as Contracts Management and Research and Academic Systems team members. This position is deadline driven and time sensitive for the success of the Researchers beginning their science and Sponsored Program teams.
Minimum Requirements
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Work requires ability to exercise considerable judgment in interpretation of policy and application of accounting procedures and practices to work problems. Work requires advanced 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 skill in using ten key by touch.
Working Conditions
Work is performed primarily in general office area.
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This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information. 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.
Why are top candidates in so many professional fields – including customer service, finance, and human resources, to name a few – choosing UT Southwestern Medical Center as a career home? Simple. They know that they will work among a team of people who bring their best every day to support a health organization that’s breaking new ground in dozens of ways. That’s what we can offer you.
It takes a lot to keep UT Southwestern at the forefront, where world-class patient care, acclaimed medical education, and innovative research breakthroughs are common occurrences. When you join us, those are the challenges you’ll share. Our organization has taken on serious commitments and responsibilities within a rapidly evolving health care system.
Change is a constant, so our work supporting this complex matrix of business and systems needs must rise to the highest level of professionalism, collaboration, and innovation. That’s true for every role across the Medical Center and represents why this can be the most challenging work of your career.