Temporary Financial Assistant

Northwestern University


Date: 1 week ago
City: Chicago, IL
Salary: $21.66 per hour
Contract type: Full time

The Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is innovative, collegial, and collaborative. We are dedicated to leveraging the social sciences to develop and implement innovations to transform health and healthcare equitably. MSS has grown to roughly 300 faculty and staff and we are hiring a temporary financial assistant to join a 3-person team providing financial services to the entire department.

We are located in downtown Chicago on Michigan Avenue, and the position is HYBRID– remote on Mon and Fri and in the office on Tue, Wed, Thu. This is full-time temporary with the possibility of going to permanent, pending satisfactory performance and 110Dean’s office approval.

Our ideal candidate is highly organized, has impeccable follow-through, is highly process-disciplined and proactive by nature, strives to provide superb customer service, and thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced, and ambitious environment with a collaborative and mission-driven culture. We are seeking someone with an accounting background, strong proficiency in Excel, excellent skills in organization, time management, oral and written communication, as well as someone with a team player attitude, and a desire for continuous learning.

Qualifications Required:

A bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience;

Strong writing skills;

High level of organizational skills and attention to detail;

Diligent and can work independently;

Experience working with confidential information;

Professionalism;

Flexibility, adaptability in a fast paced environment.

Software Required:

MS Office suite 2013 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Northwestern University seeks to employ a varied and diverse range of dynamic people who understand the importance of our mission and vision. When you consider a temporary opportunity at Northwestern University, you know that you are joining an institution with a deep history of academic, professional and personal development.

Northwestern strongly recommends COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters for people who can obtain them as a critical tool for minimizing severe illness. More information can be found on the COVID-19 and Campus Updates webpage.

The Northwestern campus sits on the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa as well as the Menominee, Miami and Ho-Chunk nations. We acknowledge and honor the original people of the land upon which Northwestern University stands, and the Native people who remain on this land today.

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