Business Specialist III, IMCI
The Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation advances model-based research and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration. It serves as a hub where faculty, postdocs, staff and students from a broad range of disciplines work together to solve real-world biomedical and complex-systems problems. IMCI's Modeling Core supports research across the university by generating new approaches and seeding interdisciplinary teams and its mission emphasizes creating an environment that bridges disciplines and encourages grassroots collaboration. IMCI enables early-career investigators and multi-disciplinary teams to pursue novel research directions and build institutional capacity.
Position Overview :
Responsible for providing complex technical support for daily financial operations by performing a variety of tasks following policies and procedures. In addition to processing a variety of financial transactions and maintaining records, the position compiles data and generates routine and ad hoc financial reports.
Duties may include :
- Purchasing identified goods and services
- Submitting invoices and receipts for payment
- Accepting and recording payments
- Reconciling purchasing card statements
- Processing travel claims and reimbursements
- Tracking transactions through completion in the centralized financial system
- Filing and maintaining unit-level finance documents
- Originating personnel actions and processing corrections to pay in the centralized financial system
- Developing, compiling, and summarizing data for routine reports and ad hoc financial management reports
- Researching and correcting discrepancies or errors
- Providing assistance to departments on questions related to invoices, receipts, financial reports and other transactions
- Researching, analyzing, and making recommendations for management decision making
- Serving as departmental grant administrator, assisting principal investigator with pre- and post-award financial activities. May participate in budget development and compilation and submission of proposals and project reports
- Other duties as assigned
Required Experience :
Three years providing financial processing support within an electronic finance systemUsing spreadsheet software to compile, summarize, analyze, and report on financial dataInterpreting and applying financial stewardship policies, procedures, rules and regulationsRequired Education :
High School Diploma or equivalentRequired Other : None
Additional Preferred :
Bachelors DegreeFamiliar with University of Idaho Policy and ProceduresExperience with Banner, ARGOS, Softdocs, Jaggaer, Payment Works, Chrome River, and MyUI.Experience with the University of Idaho's electronic research administration systems (VERAS), and, or external agency research administration systems (grants.gov, research.gov, etc).Experience working in a customer service-oriented environment to accomplish shared goalsComposing, proofing, and editing a variety of documents, using proper grammar and punctuation as demonstrated in application materialsAbility to independently resolve workplace challenges, serve as a liaison between teams, and coordinate activities.Experience analyzing information, identifying problems, defining alternatives, and developing recommendations for management / administrators.Familiarity with accounting and financial management principles.Experience developing budgets and reconciling accounts.Experience interpreting, applying and explaining policies and procedures or rules and regulations.Knowledge of or experience with 2 CFR part 200Physical Requirements & Working Conditions :
None
Degree Requirement :
N / A : No degree requirement
FLSA Status : Non-Exempt
Employee Category : Classified
Pay Range : $27.50 per hour or higher depending on experience.
Type of Appointment : ofAppointment
FTE : 1.0
Full Time / Part Time : Full Time
Funding : This position is contingent upon the continuation of work and / or funding.
A visa sponsorship is available for the position listed in this vacancy : No