at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 50136
Department: Temp Center
Salary/Grade: TMP/01
Position: Temporary Financial Assistant
Hours: This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week/ 8:30am-5pm / M-F/Friday possible remote)
Pay: $22.00 per hour
Campus: Evanston
Approximate start date: ASAP
Approximate end date: 7/5/2024
Northwestern University is seeking a temporary full-time Financial Assistant for the Evanston campus.
Temporary Job Description:
- Provides day-to-day financial and accounting support using an advanced knowledge of applicable skills, methods and practices and some innovation, analysis, and reasoning to choose appropriate alternatives from among pre-defined policies and procedures to complete work that includes successive steps and involves some non-routine problems and/or decisions.
- Applies industry and professional standards, university policy and procedure, federal and state laws and other regulations.
- Provides excellent customer service, over the phone, via email, and in person answering standard questions regarding status of requests, policies, and procedures for processing transactions, and/or instructions for completing paperwork. Instructs and advises regarding options and appropriate courses of action and follows-up inquiries to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Provides financial policy interpretation to determine the validity of customer requests and ensure compliance.
- Completes and maintains transactions in enterprise systems.
- Provides review and oversight of all types of financial transactions, some of which may be complex.
- Reviews; ensures approval based on alternatives regarding practice and policy.
- Troubleshoots problems.
- Performs v
