Student Worker, Business Services

Student Worker, Business Services

Agency:
Texas Division of Emergency Management

Department:
Accounts Payable and Travel

Proposed Minimum Salary: $15.00 hourly

Job Location:

Austin, Texas

Job Type: Student Worker

Job Description:

The Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) is an emergency response entity, and this status can affect working hours, travel, and change in duties as needed. Under general direction, the Student Worker for the Business Services Division will assist with developing and maintaining a consistent and effective reconciliation and monitoring system to ensure all system interfaces function as intended. Aids Investigating and resolving errors, mis-feeds, and other interface exceptions.

This position reports to the Financial Manager, Accounts Payable & Travel. Work is restricted to college students. Priorities or class schedules to be submitted on a weekly basis. Work schedule and work adjustments subject to prior approval. Work is performed at the TDEM Headquarters located in Austin, Texas.

** This position is not eligible for benefits. Work hours may increase from, up to 19 hours, to up to 40 hours, in-between semester breaks.

Essential

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Learns the FAMIS accounting system to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness and to maintain the integrity of the agency's account records.
• Helps enter TDEM invoices into Aggie Buy and the TDEM ticketing system.
• Assists with keeping up with the Accounts Payable ticketing system.
• Work in Smart Sheets to assist with pulling and creating reports as needed.
• Assists in maintaining a consistent and effective reconciliation and monitors system to ensure all system interfaces function as intended. Aid in investigating and resolving errors.
• Identifies discrepancies and report to management in a timely manner.
• Performs clerical duties, such as faxing documents, making copies, printing documents, scanning, preparing correspondence, coordinating, and scheduling meetings, scribing during meetings, retrieving mail, and messages.
• Provides support and contributes to Business Services projects.
• May shadow Business Services staff in different functions and roles to learn about the fundamentals of Finance.
• Face-to-face and person-to-person interactions are required.
• Maintains regular course of attendance during authorized work schedule.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Ability to travel (0%).

This document represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. Other duties may be assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education – Current student status with an institution of higher education or future student enrollment status for the upcoming school semester.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong and effective communication skills.
• Ability to multitask.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word. Microsoft Excel and other operating systems, and devices.
• Ability to understand and apply basic functions and roles of Business Services.
• Ability to anticipate, identify issues, and problem solve.
• Ability to communicate with tact and diplomacy.

All positions are security sensitive and are considered at-will status. Candidates for employment are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution's verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution's procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.