About the Department:

The Student Accounts Office provides professional, efficient, and effective payment, deposit, and receivable collection services to students, parents, faculty, and staff, and maintains internal controls to ensure associated financial transactions are accurately processed and proper records are maintained.

About the Position:

The Senior Fiscal Technician is responsible for student and department deposits received through various payment methods. This includes receiving and processing of funds into Banner Student and Banner Finance. Further, this position acts as the University's lead point of contact with various electronic payment processors, Elavon and TouchNet.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing and assuring payments to the University are processed correctly, securely, and in a timely manner. This includes processing of student and department payments received via credit card, remote deposit, wire transfers, EDI, ACH, or other methods that require manual entry into the accounts. If processing of credit card transactions is involved, following University and Payment Card Industry guidelines is required. This position is also responsible for reconciling cashiering work on a daily basis;
• Serves as point person for research and resolving reconciling items for various clearing accounts;
• Serves as back-up to other Senior Fiscal Technician;
• Prepares daily accounting entries in accordance with state regulations, CAPP manual, and month-end deadlines related to cash receipts;
• Customer Service: Conducts research requests and answers questions for management and external customers (other University departments and vendors); and
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in a student accounts or accounts receivable office, or an accounting background;
• Skill in the use of complex accounting systems, Excel and other applications; and
• Ability to key large quantities of data quickly, and with a high degree of accuracy.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field;
• Some accounting-related experience with significant reconciling and transaction analysis (typically two or more years); and
• Familiarity with Ellucian Banner and TouchNet or similar systems.

Instructions to Applicants: 

For full consideration, applicants must apply for the Fiscal Technician, Senior at https://jobs.gmu.edu/. Complete and submit the online application to include three professional references with contact information, and provide a cover letter and resume for review.

Posting Open Date:  July 18, 2025

For Full Consideration, Apply by:  July 31, 2025

Open Until Filled:  Yes