at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 54421
Department: MED-Medical Social Sciences
Salary/Grade: EXS/5
Target hiring range for this position will be between $51,350 - $66,380 per year. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Job Summary:
Supports a university accounting-related area or program under supervision of the area manager.Supports a school/dept's financial operations. Reviews a portfolio of multiple schools/depts' financial operations comprised primarily of standard and routine work.Provides transactional oversight. Applies industry and professional standards, university policy and procedure, federal and state laws and other regulations (as applicable). Represents &/or guides business area on internal &/or external financial affairs by exchanging information.
Specific Responsibilities:
Transactions:
- Provides review and oversight of all types of financial transactions some of which may be complex in regard to size or duration of account.
- Enters individual &/or summary of transactions into journals &/or general ledger or other NU enterprise system.
- Reviews; ensures approval based on alternatives regarding practice & policy; analyzes and classifies transactions in accordance with established chart or coding of accounts; creates new accounts; prepares, processes, reconciles & provides receipts (as appropriate) for transactions.
- Processes transfer &/or appropriation charges & may balance &/or close accounts.
- Troubleshoots problems; performs vendor/account research as needed; obtains additional information from or provides instruction & guidance for customers/vendors; corrects or escalates.
- Maintains Chart of Account lists.
- Prepares & delivers bank deposits.
- Provides financial policy interpretation to determine the validity of customer requests & ensure compliance.
- Controls account availability for all chart strings.
- Provides support for internal audit requests.
Grants &/or Awards:
- Provides assistance regarding grant financial administration such as preparing financial information for grant submission.
