The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is looking to solve the problem of providing comprehensive planning, budget preparation, and monitoring, and accounting support to faculty for their research budgets.
Requirements
- Demonstrated proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
- Skill with accounting and financial reporting.
- Knowledge of accounting theories and principles.
- Experience with Oracle ERP accounting system.
- CPA certification (preferred).
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance (preferred).
Responsibilities
- Works as a consultant in managing, monitoring, and maintaining faculty research projects for discretionary and internal awards that includes projections.
- Builds relationships with faculty by monitoring budget balances, expenses, and encumbrances on a monthly basis, and notifying them when their budgets are approaching a deficit.
- Performs accounting duties that align with the complexity of Booth instruction and research activities that adjusts funding to maintain faculty project and award information (transaction review and analysis, funds transfers, and cost corrections).
- Processes and submits invoices and reimbursement requests, as well as prepares expense reports for approval while monitoring the budget.
- Assists with budgeting activities, including loading the fiscal year budget, rolling over balances, allocating Executive MBA budget and Course Coach budgets, and reconciling to the master budget report.
- Maintains and updates faculty projects and awards in the Oracle ERP accounting system, including creating new projects and awards; increasing or decreasing funding; closing projects and awards; and updating other relevant information.
- Works with supervisor to assist with ad-hoc reporting and analysis as requested from the Dean’s office.
Other
- Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
- Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
- Outstanding verbal, written, and presentation skills, as well as organizational skills.
- Excellent strategic planning, critical thinking, and analytical skills.
- Handle multiple detailed tasks/projects simultaneously and meet strict deadlines with frequent interruptions.
