About ORU

Oral Roberts University is a Christian university located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As a globally recognized, Holy Spirit-empowered university, we develop whole leaders for the whole world through a unique Whole Person education. Students come to ORU not to “stay” in their faith but to GROW in faith and to become the Spirit-empowered leaders they are called to be. Faculty, staff, and students must adhere to the Code of Honor Pledge for ORU.

Position Overview

Prepare, process, record, reconcile, analyze and report financial data to include journal entries and reconciliations of balance sheet accounts and bank reconciliations.

Essential Functions

• Performs bank reconciliations of 12 bank accounts which require analysis of bank data and general ledger entries to ensure the general ledger cash accounts are accurately reported.
• Identify automated credit card feeds to the general ledger and batch deposit totals for the monthly bank reconciliation.
• Researching unreconciled items, identifying correcting entries needed and facilitating those corrections to the GL and/or bank as necessary.
• Coordinate the administration of Giftwrap for deferred gifts working with Development and PG Calc to update status of annuitants and record transactions to the general ledger.
• Prepare and enter monthly journal entries to record interest earned net of monthly bank expenses.
• Post-award grant accounting for assigned grants involving grant fund set up, budget entry, approval of requisitions per budget and grant guidelines, billing, and financial reporting as required by the grant.
• Prepares work papers and schedules to support the annual financial report as required by auditors in connection with fiscal year-end audit, assists with tax return preparation.
• Prepare monthly funds transfers including the proper general ledger entries as needed to move funds to the appropriate bank account in support of the monthly bank interest entry, reimbursements to the operating budget, expense corrections between accounts, etc.
• Approve accounts payable requisitions.
• Distribute daily bank activity to appropriate personnel.
• Prepare a monthly claim on cash report.
• Various monthly balance sheet account reconciliations and deposit coding.

Qualifications and Competencies

Knowledge & Experience:

• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Business Administration with a minimum GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in accounting coursework.
• One to three years of experience is preferred.

Skills & Abilities:

• Must be computer literate with proficiency in Microsoft Word and intermediate Excel abilities.
• Experience with computerized financial systems preferred.
• Requires good communication, organizational, interpersonal, mathematical, bookkeeping, statistical analysis, and proofreading skills.
• Must be detail oriented and have the ability to work under stress while dealing with deadlines and time pressures.
• Must maintain a high level of confidentiality of information.
• Must have the ability to effectively deal with persons from a variety of cultural backgrounds.
• Maintains compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).