Required Qualifications:
- Experience processing varied financial transactions, such as invoices, purchase orders, expense reimbursements, or purchases with an employer credit card
- Experience allocating expenses to appropriate funding sources
- Demonstrated history of providing polite, accurate, and timely customer service to internal and external stakeholders
- Experience with both working independently to complete tasks and collaboratively with colleagues to resolve issues and support shared workflows
- Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple concurrent tasks or projects
- Proficiency using Excel or other spreadsheet applications (comfortable with basic navigation, data entry, simple functions and formatting)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience interpreting financial terms and conditions, including applying allowability rules, budget constraints, and compliance requirements to financial transactions
- Experience with Universities of Wisconsin financial systems and workflows, such as Workday, ShopUW+, Concur, Assetworks, or Qualtrics, including initiating and/or approving transactions and generating reports
- Experience with making work-related travel arrangements for others
- Experience working in a higher education setting
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new and changing methods, requirements, and priorities
- Have excellent time management skills and capacity to work quickly and accurately. Ability to prioritize work to meet deadlines
- Education: Required: Associate degree
- Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, public administration, or related fields
- How to Apply: For the best experience completing your application, we recommend using Chrome or Firefox as your web browser. To apply for this position, please click on the "I am a current employee" button or "I am not a current employee" button under "Apply Now". You will be prompted to upload the following documents.
- Resume (required) - Detail your educational and professional background
- Cover letter (required) - Address each of the required and preferred qualifications as they relate to your work experience
- To be considered for this job, it’s important that your cover letter and resume reflect brief examples of your experiences related to the required and preferred qualifications listed above. Your application materials will be used during our evaluation to determine your qualifications as they relate to the job. The most qualified applicants will be invited to participate in the next step of the selection process.
- IMPORTANT: There is only one attachment field; please upload both your resume and cover letter in that field. All requested application materials must be submitted for your application to be considered. Please submit only the materials specified; additional materials will not be reviewed.
Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of the appointment. University sponsorship is not available for this position.
References: Finalists will be asked to provide contact information (phone and email) for three references, one of which must be a current or former supervisor. References will not be contacted without prior notice.
Contact Information:
Johnny Wertz, johnny.wertz@wisc.edu, 608-316-4496
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.
Institutional Statement on Diversity:
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence by acknowledging skills and expertise from all backgrounds and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.
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Employment may require a criminal background check. It may also require your references to answer questions regarding misconduct, including sexual violence and sexual harassment.
The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).
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