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Accountant

Stanford University • Stanford, CA • 3h ago

Job Description

Stanford Job Title: Accountant 1

VPUE Unit: BOSP

Location: Stanford Main Campus; Hybrid (3 or more days/week on site)

Job Code: 4441

Exemption Status: Exempt

Heralded as a hub of undergraduate innovation, the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE) creates and sustains meaningful interactions between students and faculty both within and outside the classroom. As a collaborative team member of VPUE, you have a unique opportunity to advance and support programs that touch and enhance the lives of every undergraduate student at Stanford.

About the Bing Overseas Studies Program

The Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) provides transformative educational experiences that inspire students to embrace new challenges in complex global settings. Even far away from campus, students are mentored and challenged by some of their favorite Stanford professors. Stanford faculty members are central to the BOSP mission, providing instruction and oversight for all BOSP academic programs and are supported by a dedicated staff of over 50 professionals working on Stanford's campus and abroad. Beyond our home office operations, BOSP maintains sites at nine different centers around the globe and offers programming throughout the academic year and the summer.

The Bing Overseas Studies Program seeks a detail-oriented Accountant to join its finance and administration team at the home office. The ideal candidate will have strong accounting, organizational, and communication skills. In this role, you will monitor expenditures, reconcile financial transactions, analyze financial data, and prepare documentation for a large and complex global operation.

Specific tasks include managing and approving expenses and purchase orders related to the BOSP Global Seminars, partner programs, the NY Center, and the home office; tracking and reconciling travel expenses and advances for BOSP faculty and staff; managing home office memberships; administering departmental P-card and T-card expenses; utilizing financial reports and databases from multiple systems to gather data and prepare reports, handbooks, and guides; assisting with the budgeting and funding process; enforcing business expense and travel compliance policies and procedures; processing student billing and stipends and resolving student account issues; monitoring the BOSP Finance email inbox; and other duties as assigned.

To be considered, please submit a cover letter and resume along with your online application. Your cover letter should briefly describe your interest in the position and how you feel your background and experience would make you a successful candidate.

Completed applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning October 8, 2026.

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