About this role
Job title: Grants and Endowment Accountant
About the Role Wayland Baptist University seeks a Grants and Endowment Accountant to monitor financial recording and reporting for external grants, restricted gifts, and endowment spending distributions. The role ensures compliance with donor stipulations, assists with grant reporting, and coordinates with Advancement and Financial Aid to communicate available funds and restrictions.
What You'll Do
- Work with grant managers to set up and monitor accounts, prepare regular reports, and request payments.
- Set up new restricted and endowment funds in the financial system and document donor stipulations for reference by beneficiary departments.
- Monitor the use of restricted gifts and endowment spending distributions to ensure compliance with donor stipulations.
- Identify funds not being used and bring to the attention of the Director of Financial Services and/or CFO and VP of Advancement.
- Calculate the amount available for endowed scholarships and communicate the information to Financial Aid.
- Record the monthly and quarterly endowment pool transactions generated by the fund valuation software, currently Adavico.
- Record gift batches from the university donor system and reconcile the gift clearing account.
- Perform accounting, reconciling, and/or analytical assignments as requested by the Director of Financial Services.
What We're Looking For
- Education: Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Business or Accounting, OR demonstrated career progression and success in a similar position.
- Experience and Knowledge:
- Fluent in accounting with a deep understanding of debits and credits
- External grant monitoring and reporting (preferred)
- Knowledge of not-for-profit accounting, endowments and endowment pools, and managing donor restrictions (preferred)
- Experience at a private institution of higher education (preferred)
- Skills and Abilities:
- Strong attention to detail
- Initiative, perseverance and good judgement
- Highest standards of conduct, appearance and attitude
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong computer skills, expertise in Excel, Word, data analysis and systems operations
- Ability to work independently with minimum supervision; to supervise and delegate appropriately; to take the initiative in assuming and completing tasks with direction
- Honest, reliable, collegial, and accurate
- Commitment to Christian higher education and the purpose and philosophy of higher education as promoted by the Baptist General Convention of Texas and Wayland Baptist University
Nice to Have
- External grant monitoring and reporting experience
- Knowledge of not-for-profit accounting, endowments and endowment pools, and donor restrictions
- Experience at a private institution of higher education
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: Not disclosed
- Hours: Full-time; typically 37.75 hours per week for Plainview employees, with official full-time salaried hours at 40 per week
- Work environment: Standard office setting at the Plainview campus; temperature-controlled; moderate noise with typical office sounds