Grants & Post-Award Financial Coordinator

UW School of Medicine and Public Health; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 56,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holidays

Generous vacation

Retirement benefits

Job summary

The Financial Coordinator will join the UW Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to support post-award fiscal needs across sponsored contracts. Responsibilities include monitoring expenses, budgeting, and financial reporting to sponsors.

This role may be performed partially remotely with on-site duties, and requires strong communication, organization, and cross-team coordination with internal and external partners.

Qualifications

• Two years of prior administrative, operational, or fiscal experience, preferably in an academic setting.
• Experience with Outlook, Word, Excel, and Google Suite (eg. Google Sheets and Google Docs)
• Associates degree preferred; focus in business or finance is preferred
• Previous post-award financial management experience within an academic institution, preferably within the UW System

Responsibilities

• Assists with accounting and reviewing reconciliations, journal entries, schedules, and reports
• Prepares and analyzes financial data, reports and records, identifies discrepancies, investigates, recommends, and implements basic solutions as needed
• Assists in preparing budgets and financial projections
• Answers questions and provides accounting related information to internal and external stakeholders according to established policies and procedures
• Prepares and/or approves financial transactions and payments
• Organizes, prepares, and updates basic financial statements, monthly and year-end journal entries, accounts, ledgers, and reports for various financial needs within an automated financial system to ensure accurate recording and reporting of financial transactions

Skills

Customer service orientation

Strong written and verbalcommunication

Effective organizational skills

Ability to multitask

Education

Associates degree preferred; business/finance focus

Tools

Outlook

Word

Excel

Google Suite

Job description

The Financial Coordinator will join the UW Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to support post-award fiscal needs across sponsored contracts. Responsibilities include monitoring expenses, budgeting, and financial reporting to sponsors.

This role may be performed partially remotely with on-site duties, and requires strong communication, organization, and cross-team coordination with internal and external partners.