What are the responsibilities and job description for the Finance Technician position at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)?
Summary:
The Partnership for People with Disabilities, a grant funded University Center in the School of Education, is seeking a dynamic candidate for the role of Finance Technician. This position provides fiscal support and accountability to the organization. It ensures that tasks are accomplished timely and in compliance with University, federal, state, and grant funders’ standards. It will serve as part of a team to support the unit. This position is open rank up with an anticipated slotting of Financial Technician 2 (Job Code 18112). This position is not ORP-eligible.
Typical Duties and Responsibilities:
The position will be a full-time university and administrative professional. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
- Demonstrates a commitment to risk assessment (considering costs, benefit, and impact)
- Makes purchases and prepares travel reimbursements
- Reconciling simple accounts, and reconciliations and meets with PIs and Project Directors
- Researches complex payment inquires and provides timely resolutions
- Monitors group email address and finance tracking board
- Track staff requests
- Participates in training for department staff on fiscal processes (quarterly trainings or as needed)
- Develops and maintains positive relationships with internal and external customers
- Serves as secondary timekeeper as needed
- Completes all University trainings timely
- Participates in Partnership collaboration activities
- Other duties as assigned
Minimum Requirements:
- Experience in a finance role
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Extensive experience with Microsoft Office Excel (must be able to demonstrate skills using a variety of functions in Excel and be willing to take advanced professional development to enhance skills)
- Must have excellent attention to details and be task-oriented and proactive with resolving issues in an efficient manner
- Must be dependable and able to work additional hours when needed
- Must be able to successfully work on a team
- Experience processing finance requests including purchase requests, travel reimbursements, and supply orders
- Must be able to type at least 50 wpm
- Must have excellent organizational skills,
- Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff and student environment or commitment to do so as a staff member at VCU
- Ability to multi-task required
- Ability to work nights and weekends during peak time mid-September through October 31st of each year
- Must be a quick learner and be able to work in a structured and fast-paced environment
- Must be able to travel when needed to assist with events on rare occasions
Preferred Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (3 years in finance roles equivalent to this position)
- In depth knowledge of rules and regulations pertaining to state agency disbursements, budget reconciliations, general rules of accounting, purchasing, travel reimbursements
- Experience serving as an approver of finance requests including purchase requests, travel reimbursements, and supply orders
- Some knowledge of grants accounting
- Knowledge of timekeeping
- Experience with Banner, Chrome River, Realsource
- Experience with preparing online communications (i.e. email blasts, newsletter, etc.
Salary Range: $43,000 - $50,000
Position Details:
Department: Partnership for People with Disabilities
Employment Type: UF - University Employee FT
Restricted Status: Yes
FTE: 100
Exemption Status: Non-Exempt
Contact Information:
Contact Name: Malinda Macon
Contact Email: mmmacon@vcu.edu
Salary : $43,000 - $50,000
