Assistant Bursar

We are currently seeking a full-time onsite Assistant Bursar in the Bursar Department. The main function of this position is to manage the customer service & cashiering areas of the Bursar’s Office which includes responsibility for University banking functions, as well as promoting outstanding service to University customers including students, parents, departmental staff, and faculty. Starting salary for this position will be 46,800.00.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Ability to supervise staff.
• Clearly and timely communicate, verbally and in writing, with courtesy, sensitivity and respect and as appropriate for the needs and feelings of different people in different situations.
• Skilled in active listening, conflict management, and partnering (networks and alliances).
• Ability to identify the internal and external politics that impact the work of the organization and perceive organizational and political realities and act accordingly.
• Demonstrated customer service focus, including recognition of importance to position, ability to maintain poise and resilience, and creativity.
• Demonstrated ability to provide directions, information, and answers accurately, professionally, tactfully and in a timely manner.
• Demonstrated dealing openly and constructively with shortfalls and problems in service delivery.
• Demonstrated development of new insights into situations, questioning conventional approaches, and encouraging, designing and implementing new or cutting-edge ways of working or programs/processes.
• Demonstrated self-starter (proactive) attitude, diversity, openness to change and new information, and ability to adapt rapidly to new information, changing conditions or unexpected obstacles. Must take action based on one’s own sense of what is needed as well as influence events to achieve goals.

• Willingness to go above and beyond job description to ensure success of a project necessary.
• Demonstrated ability to inspire and foster team commitment, spirit, pride, and trust while fostering an inclusive workplace where diversity and individual differences are valued and leveraged to achieve the vision and mission of the organization.
• Demonstrated accountability, problem solving, decisiveness, influencing and negotiation.
• Demonstrated organizational skills, balancing workload in multi-task and multi-deadline environment with proper perspective when emergencies arise.
• Demonstrated ability to act effectively and in a timely manner; making well-informed, effective and timely decisions even when data are limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences, perceive the impact and implication of the decisions then stand behind decisions.
• Problem solving, including identifying and analyzing problems, weighs relevance and accuracy of information then generating and evaluating alternative solutions.
• Ability to persuade others, build consensus through give and take, and gain cooperation from others to obtain information and accomplish goals - working toward win-win solutions.
• Demonstrated continual learning attitude and self-development.
• Demonstrated ability to appropriately use and apply technology in the workplace and ability to read, interpret, explain and comply with University policies and procedures and all internal and external policies and regulations applicable to the functional area.
• Demonstrated technical credibility by establishing and maintaining credibility in areas of responsibility, understanding and appropriately applying theories, procedures, requirements, regulation and policies related to specialized expertise.
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage workforce, and prepare, justify, and administer office/program budgets and technology based on organizational goals while focusing on results and measures outcomes.

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, management, or related field.
• At least 3 years’ experience in accounting, accounts receivable, banking or customer service.
• Experience with web-based applications and spreadsheets.
• Supervisory experience.

• Experience in student related services and federal financial aid regulations.
• Sungard Banner student system/TouchNet Ecommerce experience.
• Call center experience
• Excel preferred.

Benefits:

• Free tuition through Purdue University Global.
• Fee remission for a traditional Purdue degree for yourself, your spouse, and your child(ren).
• Insurance starts on first day of employment.
• Generous Paid Time Off – additional PTO in December.
• Additional benefit information: https://www.purdue.edu/hr/benewell/

Additional Information:

• Purdue will not sponsor employment authorization for this position.
• A background is required for employment in this position.
• FLSA: Exempt (Not Eligible for Overtime)

Purdue Fort Wayne is an EEO/AA employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce. All individuals, including minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to apply.

To be considered for this position, you must apply

online at https://careers.purdue.edu/FW