Job Description
Provide comprehensive planning, budget preparation and monitoring, and accounting support to faculty for their research budgets. This includes serving more than 150 faculty members, many of whom have multiple research accounts, such as discretionary funds and internal awards. Responsibilities include acting as a budget consultant, monitoring budgets and expenses, optimizing the use of available cash, project maintenance, preparing reports, and processing transactions, including submitting invoices for payment and expense reports for approval, along with other general accounting duties.
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.
Communicates and ensures faculty are compliant with both University and Booth financial policies.
Cross collaboration with Booth’s procurement and payables team who manage contracts, purchasing, and invoice payments.
Works with staff across various Booth departments on matters related to faculty research projects, such as Human Resources, IT, Faculty Services, Data Governance, etc.
Performs a variety of operating or cost accounting activities which require moderate knowledge of accounting theories and principles.
Has a moderate/high level of authority in drafting income and balance sheet statements, consolidated statements, and various other accounting statements and reports.
Performs other related work as needed.
Posting Statement
The University of Chicago is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, ****** orientation, gender, gender identity, or expression, national or ethnic origin, shared ancestry, age, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $64,000.00 - $72,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Vision insurance
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Chicago, IL 60637
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.
Communicates and ensures faculty are compliant with both University and Booth financial policies.
Cross collaboration with Booth’s procurement and payables team who manage contracts, purchasing, and invoice payments.
Works with staff across various Booth departments on matters related to faculty research projects, such as Human Resources, IT, Faculty Services, Data Governance, etc.
Performs a variety of operating or cost accounting activities which require moderate knowledge of accounting theories and principles.
Has a moderate/high level of authority in drafting income and balance sheet statements, consolidated statements, and various other accounting statements and reports.
Performs other related work as needed.
Posting Statement
The University of Chicago is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, ****** orientation, gender, gender identity, or expression, national or ethnic origin, shared ancestry, age, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $64,000.00 - $72,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Vision insurance
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Chicago, IL 60637
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