Job description
Posting Details
Posting Details
Position Number:
128363
Title:
Business Services Specialist
Functional Title:
Business Services Specialist
Category Status:
20-Nonexempt,Regular
Applicant Search Category:
Staff
University Authorized FTE:
1.00
Unit:
VPF-CON-Accounts Payable
Hiring Range Minimum:
44843
Hiring Range Maximum:
53811.6
Campus/College Information:
Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the flagship institution in the University System of Maryland. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world.
Background Checks
Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information reported by the background check will not automatically disqualify you from employment.
Position Summary/Purpose of Position:
To maintain the UMCP Working Fund. This will entail preparing checks using the automated check writing system, Microsoft Money, and eventually Workday; facilitating campus department inquiries regarding working fund check requests; maintaining/scanning files regarding working fund payments, for research activities, payroll advances, H-1B visas, special use funds, and petty cash; preparing journal entries to post expenditures to the appropriate account; processing wire transfers and foreign drafts via Convera; providing reports that monitor due dates/return dates for special use and petty cash funds; providing reports that monitor advances received from the State and return date; and making bank deposits.
Minimum Qualifications:
EDUCATION:
- High School Diploma or GED.
EXPERIENCE:
- Six years progressively responsible experience in a combination of budgeting, accounting, payroll, purchasing, and personnel work.
REQUIRED
KNOWLEDGE
/
SKILLS
/
ABILITIES
:
- Working knowledge of and ability to apply Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
- Working knowledge of management principles and practices.
- Skill in applying basic analytical skills to review expenditures and revenues, prepare forecasts, and reconcile accounts.
- Skill in performing basic mathematical computations.
- Skill in planning work and supervising others.
- Skill in organizing and executing multiple assignments under specific time constraints.
- Ability to understand and interpret University policies and procedures in the areas of finance, human resources, payroll, purchasing, and sponsored programs.
- Ability to prepare and present budgetary, accounting, and other reports and schedules.
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
- Ability to operate office equipment, computers, and related software.
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential matters with discretion and tact.
OTHER
:
Except for qualifications established by law, additional related experience and formal education in which one has gained the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for full performance of the work of the job class may be substituted for the education or experience requirement on a year-for-year basis with 30 college credits being equivalent to one year of experience.
Preferences:
Preferred Qualifications:
- Thorough knowledge of the rules of debits and credits.
Additional Certifications:
Additional Information:
Job Risks
Not Applicable to This Position
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
The position is primarily sedentary work. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
The position is primarily sedentary work. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
Posting Date:
04/27/2023
Closing Date:
05/11/2023
Open Until Filled
No
Diversity Statement:
The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed, marital status, political affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the First Amendment, in all aspects of employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.
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