Job Description

Job Description:

RESPONSIBILITIES: Employees in this classification are entry-level professional accountants who apply accounting principles and practices to a limited range of accounting, budgeting, and/or other fiscal functions. They work under general supervision.

The primary purpose of this position is to perform financial compliance activities involving the review, analysis, approval, and processing of payment transactions. Ensure expenditures are properly documented, authorized, accurately coded for financial statement reporting, and processed in accordance with applicable policies, procedures, accounting standards, and regulatory requirements.

WORK LOCATION: Macomb campus

APPOINTMENT: As soon as possible

HOURLY WAGE: $19.00 - $20.90

Western Illinois University employees may be eligible for a variety of State of Illinois benefits. These benefits are administered through the Illinois Department of Central Management Services (CMS). These benefits include: Health Insurance plans, (HMO's, OAP's, QCHP, and CDHP), Dental Insurance, Vision Plan, Life Insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D), Supplemental Long-Term Disability (LTD), Flex Spending Accounts (HAS, MCAP, and DCAP), 403(b) Supplemental Retirement Plans and 457(b) Deferred Compensation Plans.

Eligible employees are required to participate in the State Universities Retirement System (SURS). SURS is the retirement administrator for employees in public higher education in the State of Illinois.

Other benefits available to eligible employees include: paid time-off, Employee Assistance Program, Tuition Waiver programs, and discounts to the local YMCA.

For a full list of benefits as a WIU employee, please visit our Benefits Homepage: http://www.wiu.edu/vpas/human_resources/benefits/.

For questions on benefits, or eligibility, contact our benefits team at [email protected] or by calling 309-298-1971.

Requirements:

1. Any one or any combination of the following, totaling three (3) years (36 months) from the categories below:

A. Work experience and/or training in Accounting or a closely related field
B. College course work and/or training in Accounting or a closely related field (including 12 semester hours in accounting)

30 semester hours equals one (1) year (12 months)
Associate's Degree (60 semester hours) equals eighteen months (18 months)
90 semester hours equals two (2) years (24 months)
Bachelor's Degree (120 semester hours) equals three (3) years (36 months)


Pre-graduation applicants are welcome to apply. In order to be considered for employment, the degree must be conferred at the time of application, unless applicant is in the final semester of a degree program; if so, the degree must be conferred at the time of appointment. For a degree to be considered, it must be conferred from a regionally accredited degree-granting institution of higher education (or equivalent from an international accrediting body).