Christopher Arrington

Serves as an approver and back-up signer of vouchers and requisitions. Reviews and approves account reconciliations of unit accounts. Assists with the management of financial transactions, including assigning costs to appropriate accounts and projects. Monitors and controls unit expenditures plan within budget guidelines and makes projections. Develops annual budget documents for approval.
-Plans, implements, coordinates, monitors, and evaluates policies and procedures and monitors compliance with policies and procedures. Develops and recommends policies, procedures, and guidelines. Develops and approves schedules, priorities and standards for achieving goals. May serve as an office manager. Coordinates and evaluates business function, division, or department activities.
-Manages annual fiscal year closing activities. Resolves operational and procedural financial problems. Prepares and analyzes business reports, such as affirmative action reports and space allocation reports. Manages allocations and reporting. Performs analyses of resource allocations and operating fund requirements.
-Manages cash handling activities and unit capital equipment purchasing. Serves as accountability property officer. Serves as liaison with financial, payroll, and human resources units. Interprets System policies and regulations and University rules. Manages maintenance of unit business files.
-Identifies business-related needs and problems, and proposes solutions. Implements and audits business procedures and trains staff on new and existing procedures. Provides advice on administrative and fiscal procedures. Conducts surveys of customer needs and satisfaction. May coordinate donor gift and recognition activities. Conducts special investigations, program analysis, and research studies.
-Manages personnel activities including preparing position analyses, updating position descriptions, and developing employment offers. Communicates with employees regarding personnel policies and procedures and identifies training needs.
-Serves as a resource to principal investigator(s) for grant development, administration, and reporting.
-Participates in the hiring and training of subordinate business staff and student workers. May supervise staff and resolves staff conflicts.

Assist in request for proposal (RFP) processes from issuance to contract execution.
● Assist in evaluating generation projections, including fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewable projects, for potential participation by utilities
● Assist in performing Cost of Service and Rate studies for utilities.
● Assist in developing and monitoring annualized Power Cost Adjustment (PCA) or Power Cost Recovery Factor.
● Assist in reviewing annual revenue requirements and preparing necessary rate adjustments to meet revenue targets.
● Assist in preparing financial forecasts.
● Assist in developing and maintaining statistical data models and provide monthly reports for utilities.

• Recorded daily activity for the System Cash Concentration Pool, including generating bank reports, coordinating with Treasury Services to record investment transactions, and processing equity transfers
• Posted monthly investment income, quarterly endowment income, and monthly reallocation entries in the investment reporting software, distributed monthly fund ledger reports, and prepared accounting entries to record daily pooled cash activity related to System Office accounts
• Processed monthly entries to adjust System member Cash Concentration Pool balances for payroll and benefits paid centrally by System Office or expenses charged between System members
• Reviewed monthly transparency reports and posted to the System Office website quarterly
• Performed year-end due to/from, pass-through and transfer confirmations, assisted in reviewing System member annual financial reports
• Prepared THECB sources & uses templates and reviews completed sources & uses templates submitted by system members
• Assisted in preparing for the annual financial reporting workshop and updating year-end workpapers provided to System members to submit with their annual financial report (AFR) package, including the statement of cash flows template, due to/from template, and other supplemental workpapers
• Assisted with preparation of System Office annual financial report, including Statement of Cash Flows.

• Assisted with construction project reconciliation between Accounting system and Construction software
• Assisted with System Office Operations and perform tasks such as Accounting system data entry
• Assisted with monthly tasks related to Easterwood Airport activity including processing monthly billing
• Initiated Equity Transfers to move funds between different System cash pools
• Reviewed Annual Financial Reports of various Texas A&M Members.

• Managed Accounts Payable email, entered invoices into Accounts Payable system, posted purchase vouchers into accounting system
• Provided customer service to support staff and vendors
• Reviewed and audited work of outside departments, research problems and discrepancies in financial data
• Maintained files and records.

• Entered payments and corrections on invoices, bank transfers, and deposits into accounting system
• Entered purchase and travel vouchers into accounting system and liquidated encumbrances
• Updated voucher logs, created Excel spreadsheets for use in business operations
• Prepared purchase and travel vouchers and prepared corrections on vouchers.