Accountant 3

The University of New Mexico (UNM) Real Estate Department is seeking a positive, self-motivated Accountant 3 to provide crucial management of daily financial operations of our department. If you’re passionate about numbers, financial processes, and contributing to the success of a prestigious institution, we’d love to hear from you!
The UNM Real Estate Department offers an exciting opportunity to maintain the financial operations of UNM’s diverse real estate portfolio, which includes over 1.35 million square feet of leased space and approximately $15 million in annual rent obligations. From office space to research labs, you’ll be part of a team that supports all entities under the Regents of the University of New Mexico, including academic, research, clinic, and hospital units.

We are seeking an experienced accounting professional who brings a strong analytical mindset and a focus on problem-solving with interest in expanding their scope over time and contributing to financial management and strategic support.
The ideal candidate has a strong accounting background in real estate or a related field, enjoys digging into the details, has exceptional organizational skills, and a proven ability to lead and support team members. This role is essential in overseeing accounting operations, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and the effective management of financial processes.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Oversees daily processing and accounting for revenue and expenditures by department; reviews and reports financial transactions; ensures accuracy, completeness, and compliance with university, local, state, and federal requirements, and standard accounting and audit procedures.
• Monitors and maintains key accounting information for the operating unit within the finance system, including aging reports, reconciliations in Banner and Yardi, capital spend down, budgeting and salary adjustments for monthly, mid-year, and year-end reporting.
• Oversee budget development and full-cycle accounts payable and accounts receivable functions, ensuring proper coding, approvals and timely processing.
• Interprets and analyzes financial operations and transactions, forecasts trends, and develops special complex reports and analyses for department and university leadership.
• Monitors and maintains appropriate revenue levels by actions such as internal account transfers, interdepartmental transfers, and collections of accounts receivable.  
• Manages complex accounting and asset management database systems; balances and maintains ledgers for the automated financial and human resource management systems.
• Supervise personnel including mentoring, performance evaluation, training, work allocation, and problem resolution

See the Position Description for additional information.

Bachelor's degree and successful completion of at least 15 credit hours of university-level accounting through intermediate accounting; at least 3 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.

Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that are above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.

• BA in Accounting/Finance, Business Administration, or a closely related field.
• Experience in Banner, Yardi, or another similar computer-based accounting system.
• Knowledge and experience in developing and monitoring budgets.
• Effective research and analytical skills to investigate account discrepancies.
• Experience with reconciliations, projections, budgeting, payroll, journal vouchers, and monthly financial reporting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with a wide range of departments, vendors, and external entities.
• Experience working with real estate or property management financials.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel or another similar computer-based software.

Only applications submitted through the official UNMJobs site will be accepted. If you are viewing this job advertisement on a 3rd party site, please visit UNMJobs to submit an application.

Positions posted with a Staff Type of Regular or Term are eligible for the Veteran Preference Program. See the Veteran Preference Program webpage for additional details.

The University of New Mexico is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

The University of New Mexico requires all regular staff positions successfully pass a pre-employment background check. This may include, but is not limited to, a criminal history background check, New Mexico Department of Health fingerprint screening, New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department fingerprint screening, verification of education credentials, and/or verification of prior employment. For more information about background checks, visit https://policy.unm.edu/university-policies/3000/3280.html. Refer to https://policy.unm.edu/university-policies/3000/3200.html for a definition of Regular Staff.