Bursar

Provides strategic and operational leadership for the University’s cashiering and payment processing functions, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant revenue collection. Serves as the functional administrator for the University’s payment processing systems, overseeing system configuration, security, user access, reporting, and payment operations, while establishing policies, procedures, training, and internal controls to ensure regulatory compliance and operational best practices across the institution.

• Serves as the primary functional administrator for the University’s payment processing platform, overseeing multiple payment and cashiering modules with responsibility for system configuration, security, user access, and operational controls.
• Manages daily system operations, including financial reporting, user provisioning, access reviews, and compliance monitoring. Provides institution-wide training and subject matter expertise to system users across the University.
• Leads system testing for upgrades, supports implementation of new payment solutions and enhancements, and evaluates emerging technologies, developing recommendations and business cases for leadership consideration.
• Administers and oversees the University’s credit card merchant services program, including the evaluation and approval of new merchant accounts and ongoing compliance monitoring. Provides training and guidance to campus merchants on payment card security and compliance requirements.
• Serves as a primary liaison among campus departments, banking partners, and payment processors to resolve payment disputes and operational issues. Oversees payment card reporting systems and participates in institutional committees focused on electronic commerce, payment security, and compliance.
• Oversees the daily processing and reconciliation of University revenues across multiple payment channels, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant recording of transactions while supporting effective financial stewardship.
• Provides administrative and operational oversight of cashiering office functions, ensuring efficient day-to-day operations and alignment with institutional financial management standards.
• Prepares and delivers a comprehensive portfolio of daily, monthly, and annual financial reports to support accounting operations, financial oversight, and audit readiness. Oversees cash reconciliations, variance analyses, payment platform reconciliations, bank reconciliations, and year-end billing and reporting activities, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial data to support institutional compliance, decision-making, and effective financial stewardship.
• Provides consistent, knowledgeable, and professional service to students, parents, University employees, and external constituents on matters related to payment processing, account inquiries, and financial transactions. Acts as a resource and escalation point for complex payment issues requiring institutional expertise and cross-departmental coordination.
• Develops, maintains, and disseminates University-wide policies and procedures governing payment processing and cash handling, ensuring alignment with evolving credit card industry compliance standards, banking regulations, and institutional financial controls. Provides regular training and compliance guidance to University staff, adapting institutional procedures in response to regulatory changes across the payment and banking landscape.

Minimum qualifications based upon job documentation and industry best practices. Any current employees not meeting these qualifications will be grandfathered until they move to a different job.

• Bachelor's degree in related field from an accredited institution.

• Three years' relevant experience.
• Supervisory experience or lead experience.
• Professional accounting or financial experience in one or more of the following areas: accounts receivable, accounts payable or disbursements, cashiering, collections, and customer service.
• Spreadsheet proficiency and accounting systems experience.

Office or other indoor work with minimal physical demands such as occasionally lifting or moving materials less than 25 pounds.

Work is generally performed in a well-lit, temperature-controlled indoor environment with occasional exposure to the outdoors or any number of elements.

Revised: 2026-08-10