Requisition Number:
67069
Location:
Boulder, Colorado
City
Boulder
State
Colorado
Employment Type:
University Staff
Schedule:
Full-Time
Posting Close Date:
14-Sep-2025
Date Posted:
29-Aug-2025

JOB SUMMARY

The Office Information Technology at CU Boulder encourages applications for a Senior Accounting Professional! OIT’s Finance, Planning and IT Asset Management (FPAM) team supports the mission and vision of OIT, the campus, and the University with high-quality administrative and financial services. As part of that support, this position plays a key role on that team and is accountable for a wide range of duties important to the fiscal accountability of OIT.
This position functions as the primary liaison between OIT staff and the Payment Services Team at the Procurement Service Center. The primary responsibility of this position is the day-to-day operations of the Accounts Payable (AP) services that FPAM provides to OIT, including payables/receivables reporting and reconciliation, property accounting, supplier management, and providing guidance to FPAM payables student employees. The work of this position will affect the accuracy of financial reports and budgetary planning while ensuring departmental compliance to related University fiscal rules. It is especially important to have a devoted AP resource within the department as OIT is one of the top three purchasers in terms of magnitude on the CU campus.
This role assists other University of Colorado departments, who use OIT to provide payment services for their IT projects and related purchases. Timely and accurate completion of related work needs to be maintained to prevent potential disruption of services to OIT as well as other schools, colleges, and departments across campus and the CU system!
CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

WHO WE ARE

Vision:

• OIT will be valued by campus as a strategic, inclusive and innovative partner in advancing learning and discovery in order to enable CU Boulder to be a best-in-class public university.

Mission:

• OIT enables campus priorities by providing high-value IT services and solutions.

Values:

• Trust, as a foundation for how we engage with one another and with campus partners, along with
• Passionate curiosity in how to better support the campus and our partner’s while
• Fostering empowerment and authentic engagement among ourselves and
• Celebrating inclusivity that promotes a sense of belonging while acknowledging that each person is unique and valued.

Strategy:

• OIT will advance learning and discovery by delivering high-value reliable IT services and solutions that:
• Provide a fluid and adaptable academic and student experience
• Enable research competitiveness and
• Deliver core infrastructure and enterprise IT services for business efficiency.

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

This position is in a hybrid work situation, typically working on campus once each week.

Oversee OIT’s Accounts Payable (AP) Program Operations, Supplier Management, Associated Financial Reporting & Reconciliation

• Prioritize, plan, and complete the day-to-day operations of OIT’s AP function. This includes:

• • Providing excellent customer service, facilitating communication, and setting expectations among all parties involved to ensure accurate and timely completion of assigned tasks
• Acting independently to analyze complex transactions and payment activity to determine whether they follow contractual regulations, terms and conditions, policies, and procedures.
• Communicating with OIT staff and campus partners to obtain and review appropriate documentation for payment of invoices, payment adjustments, and ongoing billing.
• As a contributor to OIT’s reconciliation and reporting process, act as the primary point of contact for all payables issues and Marketplace encumbrances.
• Be responsible for and maintain the OIT accounts payable DocuSign account to process and document the receipt of goods and services, while authorizing payment for those invoices. Maintain all payables records in an auditable condition.
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• Review and process requests from campus partners for payments, receiving, and/or processing purchase order changes (e.g. cost transfers, invoice/payment corrections, PO edits, project end dates).

• Using advanced Excel, Power BI, or Tableau functionality, devise and implement a sustainable and accurate reporting dashboard to systematically and efficiently highlight trends and isolate issues in the payables process.
• Stay apprised of changes to University, state, and federal policies and connect with audiences at the program manager, senior leadership, and executive level to share findings from analyses and recommend process improvements.
• Serve as the primary point of contact in OIT for interpreting and analyzing University AP policies and procedures to ensure departmental compliance.

Supervisory Responsibility

• This position is charged with the responsibility of selecting, training, and leading a team of 2-4 student and temporary employees.
• Provide oversight of tasks related to accounts payable and purchasing functions.
• Ensure the team processes expense and travel reports in a timely, accurate, consistent, and compliant manner while providing proactive and friendly customer service.
• Review processes and make recommendations for the implementation of improvements and/or automation of tasks.

Accounting Support for OIT’s Financial Analyst Team

• As a contributor to the reconciliation and reporting process; proactively and independently apply critical thinking and solution-finding skills to resolve fiscally related inquiries from finance staff by querying financial systems, analyzing written documentation, and collaborating with contacts in the Procurement Service Center (PSC) and Campus Controller’s Office (CCO).
• Investigate and identify inaccuracies, then prepare journal entry submissions to correct those inaccuracies.
• Become cross-trained on fiscal analyst monthly duties and act as a back-up when support is requested.
• Partner with the finance team to offer routine group trainings and information sessions to ensure staff in the department are aware of procurement and financial guidelines, rules, and policies.
• Perform other accounting and analysis support on an as-needed basis and assist with special projects.

Support for OIT’s Procurement and Travel Card Program

• This position provides support and training for staff using the company card program and its associated processes and guidelines within OIT. The company card program includes procurement and travel cards.
• Regularly review the number of cardholders within OIT and provide recommendations to leadership to optimize card limits, improve processes, ensure compliance, and limit opportunities for fiscal misconduct and abuse.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on campus- or system-level working groups or committees with the goal of representing departmental needs and improving processes and policies.
• Create and provide routine reports for leadership showing trends in card usage.
• Make, request, or support staff with completing necessary changes to billing addresses, approving officials, temporary changes to card limits, card renewals, delegates, and inactivations.
• Keep department training materials current and communicate company card info through informal lunches and staff meetings.
• Partner with OIT’s human resources team to ensure cards are closed and/or activated as staff are hired or terminated.

Property Accounting and Department Property Management for OIT

• Work in partnership with OIT’s IT Asset Management team and serve as the department’s primary point of contact with the Campus Controller’s Office for the tracking and reporting of capital assets on CU’s financial statements.
• Use ServiceNow to ensure accurate and auditable asset tracking, including purchase documentation, physical location, identifying information, valuation, depreciation, responsible custodians, and the full lifecycles of capital assets.
• Stay apprised of all policies and regulations pertaining to the handling and recording of capital assets owned by the University and provide policy interpretation and guidance to staff within OIT.