Areas of Responsibility

The responsibilities of the office include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Payroll
• Payroll tax withholdings and deductions remittance and reporting
• Functional maintenance of ERP systems (SOAR-Payroll & SOARFIN - General Ledger/Commitment Control), including implementations, upgrades, patches and fixes.
• General ledger maintenance
• Preparing and publishing the annual audited financial statements of the University
• Coordination of Financial and A-133 audits
• Chart of accounts and signature authority maintenance
• Financial reporting for university management and Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL)
• Accounting for debt service and issuing bond payments
• Post issuance compliance with tax exempt debt 
• Bank reconciliations
• Interdepartmental billing
• Journal entry processing
• Reconciliations of payroll liability accounts
• Implementation, coordination and maintenance of University-wide tax management and reporting programs
• Assists with efforts to ensure compliance with all Federal and State tax statutes applicable to the University
• Advises university officials and staff on tax matters