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Posted: 23-Mar-23
Location: Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Type: Full-time
Salary: Open
Boston College IntroductionFounded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,445 full-time undergraduates and 5,125 graduate and professional students. Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 878 full-time and 1,201 FTE faculty, 2,750 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.2 billion, and an endowment in excess of $2.8 billion.
Job DescriptionFiscal and Operations Specialist
The Fiscal and Operations Specialist serves a key role in the fiscal, procurement, communications, and events-related activities of the Student Affairs Business Service Center (SABSC). This position is responsible for:
- Managing and monitoring the accurate and timely processing of all transactions
- Responding to incoming requests, inquiries, and ensuring follow-up and resolution
- Assisting the Business Manager with the production of financial assessments, reports, and financial transactions support
- Providing services to Student Affairs departments, and to students involved with the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC), the Student Organization Funding Committee (SOFC), and registered student organizations (RSOs), including transactional support, reporting, and problem-solving across a wide variety of service center operations and services
- Assisting with the development and production of communication materials, including interacting with other related university departments and outside vendors to ensure consistent internal and external messaging of the SABSC
This position will have supervisory responsibilities and fully support the Business Manager in the SABSC tracking and assignment of work.
To be successful in this position qualified candidates must:
- Make sound decisions, exercises good judgment, and examines issues in new ways
- Prioritize daily workflow independently
- Have the ability to approve all transactions originated by staff which includes all graduate assistants and newly hired center staff
- Research and resolve a variety of administrative, fiscal, and operations issues
- Assess workflow, operations, make recommendations to improve effectiveness, and ensure continual improvement to meet goals and expectations
- Understand and interpret university policies and procedures daily while simultaneously applying the procedures of the service center
In order to create a more inclusive community within the Division of Student Affairs, each staff member is expected to support division and university-wide initiatives, staff events, and serve on committees as needed.
Full-Time Equivalent Hiring Range: $45,450 to $56,800; salary commensurate with relevant experience.
Requirements- Bachelor's degree in a related field is required
- Three or more years fiscal and administrative experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Understanding of or demonstrated aptitude for budgetary and financial concepts is essential, preferably in higher education
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities
- Previous experience in a customer service environment essential
- Excellent organizational, prioritization, and project management skills
- Functional use of PeopleSoft Financial system, Microsoft Suite and Google Suite of applications
- Strong oral and written communications skills
- Excellent organizational, prioritization, and project management skills
- Ability to recognize and effectively balance the differing needs of students and staff in multiple departments
- Ability to work well in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Ability to work independently and in a team-based environment
- Willingness to adapt to a changing environment and ability to staying abreast of changes in industry and apply those changes to improve operations and productivity
- Self motivated
- Understanding of student life environment and the role of shared services within it
Closing StatementBoston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:
- Tuition remission for Employees
- Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
- Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Low-Cost Life Insurance
- Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
- Paid Holidays Annually
- Generous Sick and Vacation Pay
- Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook
Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process and requires all employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Boston College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/offices/diversity.
Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination.
