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Position Summary

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is looking for a Finance Specialist. This position will provide full support for analytical, administrative, and financial post-award research activities and services for the department. The ideal candidate for this position has experience in an educational setting with a basic understanding of research administration and accounting practices in higher education. This position requires judgment, responsiveness, initiative, and ability to manage multiple tasks, while demonstrating excellent interpersonal and communication skills within and outside the department.

Workplace Requirements

This is a full-time, in-person position on the Rice University campus.

Hiring Salary: $48,700 - $54,750

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 1 years of related experience
  • In lieu of the experience requirement, additional related education, above and beyond what is required, on an equivalent year for year basis may be substituted

Skills:

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
• User knowledge and demonstrated experience of financial systems
• Understanding and ability to apply basic accounting skills and concepts
• Advanced communication skills, including ability to prepare materials for and clearly and effectively communicate information to internal audiences and client groups
• Ability to contribute as part of a project team

Preferences

• Some college work in finance and/or accounting strongly preferred
• Experience in higher education
• Experience in administration of research grant accounting
• Knowledge of government regulations involving scientific research funds (NSF, DOE, NIH, DOD, etc)

Essential Functions:

• Provides financial analysis; conducts data mining; identifies, clarifies, and investigates discrepancies and exceptions; proactively develops solutions and processes for an assigned group of faculty investigators to manage their funded research projects.
• Maintains, reconciles, reviews, combines, and validates financial data sets and accounts
• Contributes to development of budget, forecasting, and analyses
• Runs and analyzes financial reports; assists in preparation of management information reports
• Performs preliminary analysis, recognizes exceptions and recommends solutions that may require the development of new processes
• Ensures work complies with complex internal policies and external regulations which may require interpretation
• Performs other duties as assigned

About George R. Brown School of Engineering

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