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Financial Technician

Job Details

Posting Code: 3071456
Work type: Classified
Location: Boise, ID
Categories: Accounting, Administration and Business Operations

About Us:

Boise State University, powered by creativity and innovation, stands uniquely positioned in the Northwest as a metropolitan research university of distinction. Learn more about Boise State and the City of Boise at https://www.boisestate.edu/about/boise-and-beyond/. Boise State University is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty, staff, students, and academic program offerings and to strengthening sensitivity to diversity throughout the institution. Boise State University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, and members of historically underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply. We are a welcoming campus that supports diversity and inclusion.

Job Summary/Basic Function:

To analyze, research, forecast, and reconcile complex financial documents; ensure compliance with laws, rules, and policies; perform related work.

Level Scope:

Applies skills and job knowledge in area of specialization; may adapt procedures, operations, techniques, tools, materials, and/or equipment to meet needs of area of specialization; may work on non-routine tasks; resolves issues/makes working decisions within area of specialization or responsibility with minimal supervision.

Essential Functions:

60% of Time the Financial Technician must:
● Responsible for specific financial duties such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, budget, journals, etc. May act as the sole technician in an agency, region, or district that encompasses a variety of financial activities that typically include budget, payroll and benefits, accounts payable/receivable, accounts reconciliation, travel, purchasing and similar support functions. Or, This position may be responsible for financial records processing involving specialized documents such as tax, securities, insurance, and similar documents where the impact on and contact with the public is considerable. Use bookkeeping, research and analytical skills, develop ad hoc reports and other financial data for use by management.
● Acquire broad knowledge of the organizations programs and financial requirements; identify and correct errors and discrepancies; determine cost allocations; maintain logs, ledgers, journals; May compile and prepare budget data and monitor cash balances as well as design bookkeeping-type record systems.
● Review, complete, and process financial documents and ensure their compliance. Determine and assign liability, penalty and interest, and resolve disputes.
● May deal extensively with business representatives, and/or the general public to identify and resolve non-routine issues involving laws and regulations.

Accounts Receivable
• Prepare and submit weekly billing for Facilities and Central Receiving. Submit to customers for review.
• Create and submit invoices.
• Complete audits of transactions and work orders in TMA.
• Close work orders when all cost items are added in TMA.
• Make sure billings comply with current MOUs and contracts.
• Compare all open proposals with current work orders to make sure we are keeping on track.
• Monthly billings for fuel charges.
Accounts Payable
• Collect and retain copies of invoices, receipts, proposals and purchase orders.
• Update multiple reports daily and check for errors.
• Answer questions about policies regarding purchases.
• Enter Payment Requisitions/PO requisitions.
• Audit Purchasing Card transactions.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

● Experience using of MS Excel and MS Access software; Microsoft Word;
● Some knowledge of the State of Idaho STARS system; State of Idaho Statewide Accounting System.
● Experience in reviewing accounts payable and accounts receivable for processing and generating related reports.
● Experience coding and submitting claims or files, or storing, issuing, and receiving materials and supplies, applying inventory control methods

Minimum Qualifications:

Good knowledge of: financial record keeping methods.

Experience: researching and compiling financial information and preparing summaries and reports; using personal computers to enter, retrieve, and edit financial data.

Salary and Benefits:

The pay for this position begins at $16.57 per hour. Boise State University is committed to offering a benefits package that provides health and financial protection plans as well as resources to promote health and well-being. Our program provides flexibility so you can choose the benefits that are right for you and your family. Learn more about our benefit options at https://www.boisestate.edu/hrs/benefits/.

Advertised: May 05, 2021 Mountain Daylight Time
Applications close: May 18, 2021 11:55 PM Mountain Daylight Time

Organization

Working at Boise State University

Boise State University has been named one of the most innovative national universities in the country by U.S. News and World Report. Our university is designated a doctoral research institution with “high research activity” by the Carnegie Classification of Institution of Higher Education. We are home to more than 25,000 students from every state and more than 60 foreign countries.

Points of Pride:

Boise State University’s College of Education is among the top 30 public universities on the U.S. News and World Report 2020 best graduate schools list. The college has climbed in rankings every year for the last six years and offers two doctoral programs, two educational specialist degrees, 14 master’s degrees and 13 graduate certificate programs training Idaho’s future teachers and educational leaders.

 

Boise State’s College of Business and Economics ranked 127 out of 220 national institutions for its part-time MBA program, jumping more than 40 rankings from its previous year’s ranking of 168.

 

Boise State University’s College of Engineering has been recognized for its dedication to promoting diversity and awarded the Bronze Award for the 2019 ASEE Diversity Recognition Program by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The

 

Bronze Award is the highest level that was conferred during 2019 and distinguishes colleges who are among the nation’s leaders in inclusive excellence.

 

Boise State University School of the Arts will offer two new degrees in creative writing — a bachelor of arts and bachelor of fine arts — as well as a bachelor of fine arts in narrative arts beginning in fall 2018. Students at Boise State also now will be able to minor in creative writing.

 

Boise State students can choose from more than 200 areas of study in seven academic colleges – including the nation’s only master’s degree in raptor biology.

 

We’ve become Idaho’s largest graduate school through record-setting growth. A recent study showed that Boise State is one of just three universities in the nation that have ranked in the top 5 percent of graduate school growth in both of the past two decades.

 

Expenditures for research projects at Boise State University reached an all-time high of more than $41 million in fiscal year 2018 – an 18 percent increase over the previous year and impressive 64 percent increase since fiscal year 2014, according to data tracked by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Higher Education Research and Development survey.

About Our Community:

Boise State, Idaho’s largest public university, drove $667.2 million of the state’s economy in fiscal year 2015 and created 6,987 jobs across the state.  Our campus is located in one of the fastest growing high-tech cities in the nation and home to several corporate headquarters, state and federal offices, medical centers and media outlets. The city has garnered national recognition from U.S. News & World Report, Forbes and Inc. for being a great place to live, work and study, and has been dubbed one of the hottest cities for entrepreneurs. With stats like these, it’s easy to see why more than 46,000 graduates have chosen to live in the Treasure Valley after earning their degree from Boise State.

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