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Financial Assistant/Associate
3-month contract
Location: Cambridge, MA
Pay Range: $30-47.60/hr
Must Haves:
Understands funding opportunity announcements. Prepares grant proposal and develops complex budgets and budget justifications and other related proposal requirements for faculty grant submissions. Interprets University sponsored and general policy guidelines. Forecasts expenses and provides ad hoc financial reports to Department and faculty. Reconciles faculty and lab research needs with overall financial picture and making recommendation on spending rates. Reviews effort statements and payments over certain dollar thresholds.
Financial Assistant/Associate
17 Oxford St Cambridge, MA 02138 US
Posted: 03/20/2024
2024-03-20
2024-05-08
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Category: Administrative
Job Number: 614673
Country: United States
Is job remote?: No
Job Description
Financial Assistant/Associate
3-month contract
Location: Cambridge, MA
Pay Range: $30-47.60/hr
Must Haves:
- Associates degree in accounting or 3 to 5 years of experience required.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Intermediate to advanced proficiency with spreadsheet software required.
- College degree
Understands funding opportunity announcements. Prepares grant proposal and develops complex budgets and budget justifications and other related proposal requirements for faculty grant submissions. Interprets University sponsored and general policy guidelines. Forecasts expenses and provides ad hoc financial reports to Department and faculty. Reconciles faculty and lab research needs with overall financial picture and making recommendation on spending rates. Reviews effort statements and payments over certain dollar thresholds.
- Works with multiple sources of funding which may include donor or research restricted funds.
- Performs or coordinates several areas of financial accounting, recordkeeping, processing or administration.
- May conduct one or more of the following duties.
- Prepare budget for department, unit or school working with core or sponsored research funds usually utilizing information and assumptions provided by others.
- Review or reconcile accounts, transactions, or balances.
- Provide research and basic data analysis for use in financial planning and decision making.
- Prepare complex financial reports that may require selection, preparation, and interpretation of data using a complex data query tool and spreadsheet application.
- Generate entries to accounting and record keeping systems, and establish procedures for tracking and reporting.
- Process or assist with payments of vendor invoices, and individual reimbursements.
- Research accounting discrepancies.
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