Senior Administrative Assistant
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY
ID: 7261397
Posted: July 9, 2024
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Preferred Qualifications:
Associate's degree (foreign equivalent or higher). Experience in cost accounting relative to labor and payroll finance matters. Experience with Oracle.
Brief Description of Duties:
The Senior Administrative Assistant will be responsible for the tracking of documents that support labor schedules and distribution of charges to Research Foundation awards, as well as reconciling and maintaining the Oracle Payroll Suspense activity for the Stony Brook campus. This includes but is not limited to overseeing the system input of labor schedule transactions, distribution adjustments, corrections to and reconciliation of direct salary and SUNY suspense activity as well as the status of awards that are being charged. Coordination of necessary corrective actions with the Sponsored Award Analyst in the Office of Grants Management and the campus HRS/Payroll team. Interact with individual Principal Investigators, their administrative support teams, department administrators and the personnel in the RF Central Office in Albany to resolve charges to suspense accounts and to support the actions required to create labor schedules to all sponsored research awards. Problem solving and troubleshooting is prevalent.
Support all actions that require the execution of transactions charged directly to sponsored research awards for personnel charges, manage and maintain the reports for both Suspense accounts for the Stony Brook campus. ID and process transactions to create approved labor schedules for all RF employees and Fellows as well as Fellow Health Insurance, SUNY Salary Offset and Cost Shared transactions. Ensure documents are properly approved prior to input. Run the daily suspense account reports, review and analyze the report data and facilitate the necessary actions to correctly charge sponsored research awards. Determine the proper course of action for needed correction of charges from the suspense accounts based on the various reasons that individual payroll transactions were charged to the suspense account instead of to individual research projects. Using approved payroll forms, fellowship forms and salary offset requests, initiate transactions and any corrective action, coordinating approvals with Sponsored Award Analyst and Principal Investigator’s as needed. Input labor distribution information into the Oracle system and perform distribution adjustments to charge back sponsored awards. Record information of corrective actions taken on various documents and reports for audit purposes. Maintain all reports and corresponding information to endure audit compliance sponsored required back up.
● Support the current staff that process all RF employee payroll actions that charge sponsored awards, including salary offset transactions, fellowships, PI summer salary and graduate student labor charges. Once approved all actions will be work flowed from the Sponsored Award Analyst to execute against sponsored research awards. Identify and annotate all documents to record the necessary approvals and execution. Generate the supporting documents for all cost transfer actions and record in imaged files.
● Review and analyze data on the Projected Suspense report and the daily Actual Suspense reports for both direct paid Research Foundation employees as well as the Salary Offset for State faculty effort. Review charges to the suspense account for each employee listed on the report and utilizing the tools within OGM, the shared imaged Campus Payroll Office documents and RF Oracle, to determine the cause for the payroll cost being charged to the suspense account and not to an individual research project.
● Determine the corrective course of action and initiate necessary steps to remove the payroll charges from the suspense account to charge the proper sponsored project. This will include coordination and approval by Sponsored Award Analyst, the campus Payroll Office and when needed the Account Establishment Unit. Input employee labor distribution into the Oracle system to correct future charging instructions and determine the necessary distribution Adjustments to clear the suspense account of payroll charges prior to current pay period. Approve distribution adjustments in the RF Oracle business system and facilitate the return of forms and all auditable actions to image files.
● Position will serve as cross over support to both areas that create the charges for personnel actions to sponsored awards and where charges are also shared with institutional funds. This may require facilitating corrections to award fund status and communication with various campus administrative teams. Provide management with periodic statistical analysis and reports regarding the Suspense account balances and the need for possible write offs due to overpayments or transactions processed with errors. This will require in depth knowledge of various business systems and processes. Use Excel to maintain data updates and for use within the Office of Grants Management. Coordinate follow-up actions with OGM and Payroll teams as well as Research Foundation Corporate Payroll office, needed to complete adjustments.
● Create the daily reports pertinent to Campus Suspense accounts, annotate and share with OGM and Payroll teams. Interact with Research Foundation Central Office project staff to ensure that report data is correct and to facilitate any failed transactions from the previous day. Organize and maintain reports.
● Participate in the design and implementation of new computer systems to advance electronic research administration within the Vice President for Research and with campus partners in research departments that support personnel actions against Research Foundation Awards. Currently this involves the implementation of shared imaged file and retrieval system, continuous transition of the RF business system and upgrades.
● Other duties as assigned.
Special Notes:
The Research Foundation of SUNY is a private educational corporation. Employment is subject to the Research Foundation policies and procedures, sponsor guidelines and the availability of funding. FLSA Non Exempt position, eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA.
Due to U.S. Export Control laws and regulations, the candidate hired will need to be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or other "protected individual" (as defined by 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1324b(a)(3).
This position may be eligible for alternative workplace arrangements/telework (remote or virtual) or hybrid.
Associate's degree (foreign equivalent or higher). Experience in cost accounting relative to labor and payroll finance matters. Experience with Oracle.
Brief Description of Duties:
The Senior Administrative Assistant will be responsible for the tracking of documents that support labor schedules and distribution of charges to Research Foundation awards, as well as reconciling and maintaining the Oracle Payroll Suspense activity for the Stony Brook campus. This includes but is not limited to overseeing the system input of labor schedule transactions, distribution adjustments, corrections to and reconciliation of direct salary and SUNY suspense activity as well as the status of awards that are being charged. Coordination of necessary corrective actions with the Sponsored Award Analyst in the Office of Grants Management and the campus HRS/Payroll team. Interact with individual Principal Investigators, their administrative support teams, department administrators and the personnel in the RF Central Office in Albany to resolve charges to suspense accounts and to support the actions required to create labor schedules to all sponsored research awards. Problem solving and troubleshooting is prevalent.
Support all actions that require the execution of transactions charged directly to sponsored research awards for personnel charges, manage and maintain the reports for both Suspense accounts for the Stony Brook campus. ID and process transactions to create approved labor schedules for all RF employees and Fellows as well as Fellow Health Insurance, SUNY Salary Offset and Cost Shared transactions. Ensure documents are properly approved prior to input. Run the daily suspense account reports, review and analyze the report data and facilitate the necessary actions to correctly charge sponsored research awards. Determine the proper course of action for needed correction of charges from the suspense accounts based on the various reasons that individual payroll transactions were charged to the suspense account instead of to individual research projects. Using approved payroll forms, fellowship forms and salary offset requests, initiate transactions and any corrective action, coordinating approvals with Sponsored Award Analyst and Principal Investigator’s as needed. Input labor distribution information into the Oracle system and perform distribution adjustments to charge back sponsored awards. Record information of corrective actions taken on various documents and reports for audit purposes. Maintain all reports and corresponding information to endure audit compliance sponsored required back up.
● Support the current staff that process all RF employee payroll actions that charge sponsored awards, including salary offset transactions, fellowships, PI summer salary and graduate student labor charges. Once approved all actions will be work flowed from the Sponsored Award Analyst to execute against sponsored research awards. Identify and annotate all documents to record the necessary approvals and execution. Generate the supporting documents for all cost transfer actions and record in imaged files.
● Review and analyze data on the Projected Suspense report and the daily Actual Suspense reports for both direct paid Research Foundation employees as well as the Salary Offset for State faculty effort. Review charges to the suspense account for each employee listed on the report and utilizing the tools within OGM, the shared imaged Campus Payroll Office documents and RF Oracle, to determine the cause for the payroll cost being charged to the suspense account and not to an individual research project.
● Determine the corrective course of action and initiate necessary steps to remove the payroll charges from the suspense account to charge the proper sponsored project. This will include coordination and approval by Sponsored Award Analyst, the campus Payroll Office and when needed the Account Establishment Unit. Input employee labor distribution into the Oracle system to correct future charging instructions and determine the necessary distribution Adjustments to clear the suspense account of payroll charges prior to current pay period. Approve distribution adjustments in the RF Oracle business system and facilitate the return of forms and all auditable actions to image files.
● Position will serve as cross over support to both areas that create the charges for personnel actions to sponsored awards and where charges are also shared with institutional funds. This may require facilitating corrections to award fund status and communication with various campus administrative teams. Provide management with periodic statistical analysis and reports regarding the Suspense account balances and the need for possible write offs due to overpayments or transactions processed with errors. This will require in depth knowledge of various business systems and processes. Use Excel to maintain data updates and for use within the Office of Grants Management. Coordinate follow-up actions with OGM and Payroll teams as well as Research Foundation Corporate Payroll office, needed to complete adjustments.
● Create the daily reports pertinent to Campus Suspense accounts, annotate and share with OGM and Payroll teams. Interact with Research Foundation Central Office project staff to ensure that report data is correct and to facilitate any failed transactions from the previous day. Organize and maintain reports.
● Participate in the design and implementation of new computer systems to advance electronic research administration within the Vice President for Research and with campus partners in research departments that support personnel actions against Research Foundation Awards. Currently this involves the implementation of shared imaged file and retrieval system, continuous transition of the RF business system and upgrades.
● Other duties as assigned.
Special Notes:
The Research Foundation of SUNY is a private educational corporation. Employment is subject to the Research Foundation policies and procedures, sponsor guidelines and the availability of funding. FLSA Non Exempt position, eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA.
Due to U.S. Export Control laws and regulations, the candidate hired will need to be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or other "protected individual" (as defined by 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1324b(a)(3).
This position may be eligible for alternative workplace arrangements/telework (remote or virtual) or hybrid.