Accountant Senior at Arizona State University in Campus: Tempe
- Company: Arizona State University
- Location: Campus: Tempe
- Posted: Sep 18, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $63,000 per year
- Experience: 5+ years
Overview
Student Business Services is seeking an Accountant Senior to perform essential duties to support university partnerships. This role is responsible for performing professional accounting functions, conducting data analysis to support university initiatives, and ensuring the accuracy and required repo…
Job description
- Student Business Services is seeking an Accountant Senior to perform essential duties to support university partnerships. This role is responsible for performing professional accounting functions, conducting data analysis to support university initiatives, and ensuring the accuracy and required reporting. The Accountant Senior will oversee and review the work of lower-level accounting staff, ensuring billing accuracy and adherence to key deadlines.
- Salary: $63,000 per year.
Responsibilities
- Develops and prepares reporting based on query results from University Data Warehouse tables.
- Researches, analyzes and uses independent judgment in a variety of daily and non-routine decisions affecting third party group and department.
- Advises administrative management on procedures and suggesting process improvements to increase efficiency and accuracy.
- Collaborates with other university departments to provide data to fulfill partnership reporting needs.
- Develops a strong understanding of the university student billing system to research discrepancies and perform complex reconciliations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.
- Knowledge of Peoplesoft or other similar student account information system with specific query and reporting experience.
- Experience in preparing detailed and complex reports utilizing data warehouse/storage and retrieval systems such as Microsoft Access or other query software.
- Experience in a university setting and/or familiarity with federal regulations pertaining to student information.
- Experience with Workday Accounting system or other on-line accounting systems.
Skills
Required
- Accounting
- Data analysis
- Reporting
- Billing accuracy
- Query and reporting experience
- Microsoft Access or other query software
Preferred
- Experience in a university setting
Benefits
- Relocation Assistance – For information about schools, housing child resources, neighborhoods, hospitals, community events, and taxes, visit https://cfo.asu.edu/az-resources.
- ASU’s comprehensive benefits package is a key part of your total compensation. Visit the ASU Compensation Estimator
About Arizona State University
Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 100,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions inclusive excellence, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe. ASU is a tobacco-free university. For details visit https://wellness.asu.edu/explore-wellness/body/alcohol-and-drugs/tobacco