Job Description

Business Specialist III, IMCI

Posting Number: SP005075P
Division/College: University Research
Department: Institute for Modeling Collaboration & Innovation (IMCI)
Location: Moscow

Posting Context Statement:

The Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation advances model-based research and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration. It serves as a hub where faculty, postdocs, staff and students from a broad range of disciplines work together to solve real-world biomedical and complex-systems problems. IMCI’s Modeling Core supports research across the university by generating new approaches and seeding interdisciplinary teams and its mission emphasizes creating an environment that bridges disciplines and encourages grassroots collaboration. IMCI enables early-career investigators and multi-disciplinary teams to pursue novel research directions and build institutional capacity.

Position Overview:

Responsible for providing complex technical support for daily financial operations by performing a variety of tasks following policies and procedures. In addition to processing a variety of financial transactions and maintaining records, the position compiles data and generates routine and ad hoc financial reports.

Duties may include:

• Purchasing identified goods and services
• Submitting invoices and receipts for payment
• Accepting and recording payments
• Reconciling purchasing card statements
• Processing travel claims and reimbursements
• Tracking transactions through completion in the centralized financial system
• Filing and maintaining unit-level finance documents
• Originating personnel actions and processing corrections to pay in the centralized financial system
• Developing, compiling, and summarizing data for routine reports and ad hoc financial management reports
• Researching and correcting discrepancies or errors
• Providing assistance to departments on questions related to invoices, receipts, financial reports and other transactions
• Researching, analyzing, and making recommendations for management decision making
• Serving as departmental grant administrator, assisting principal investigator with pre- and post-award financial activities. May participate in budget development and compilation and submission of proposals and project reports
• Other duties as assigned

Required Experience:

• Three years providing financial processing support within an electronic finance system
• Using spreadsheet software to compile, summarize, analyze, and report on financial data
• Interpreting and applying financial stewardship policies, procedures, rules and regulations

Required Education:

• High School Diploma or equivalent

Required Other:

• None

Additional Preferred:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Familiar with University of Idaho Policy and Procedures
• Experience with Banner, ARGOS , Softdocs, Jaggaer, Payment Works, Chrome River, and MyUI.
• Experience with the University of Idaho’s electronic research administration systems ( VERAS ), and, or external agency research administration systems (grants.gov, research.gov, etc).
• Experience working in a customer service-oriented environment to accomplish shared goals
• Composing, proofing, and editing a variety of documents, using proper grammar and punctuation as demonstrated in application materials
• Ability to independently resolve workplace challenges, serve as a liaison between teams, and coordinate activities.
• Experience analyzing information, identifying problems, defining alternatives, and developing recommendations for management/administrators.
• Familiarity with accounting and financial management principles.
• Experience developing budgets and reconciling accounts.
• Experience interpreting, applying and explaining policies and procedures or rules and regulations.
• Knowledge of or experience with 2 CFR part 200

Physical Requirements & Working Conditions:

• None

Degree Requirement:
N/A: No degree requirement
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Employee Category: Classified
Pay Range: $27.50 per hour or higher depending on experience.
Type of Appointment: _of_Appointment
FTE:

1.0

Full Time/Part Time: Full Time
Funding: This position is contingent upon the continuation of work and/or funding.
A visa sponsorship is available for the position listed in this vacancy: No
Posting Date: 11/05/2025
Closing Date:
Open Until Filled: Yes
Special Instructions to Applicants:

This position is posted as open until filled, however, applications submitted on or before November 19, 2025 will receive priority consideration.

Applicants:
Please use your letter of qualification to explain in detail how your work experience, skills, and abilities meet both the required and preferred qualifications as listed in the position description. Your letter of qualification will be used to demonstrate your communication and writing skills to determine your ranking among the other applicants for this position.

For resources about how to write a letter of qualification , please visit the HR website here: Applicant Resources – Careers | University of Idaho (uidaho.edu)
To see the full job description, please visit the ORED Jobs page here . If you have any questions regarding this posting, please reach out to the search coordinator at kskovgard@uidaho.edu .

Applicant Resources:
Background Check Statement:

Applicants who are selected as final possible candidates must be able to pass a criminal background check.

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The University of Idaho is an equal employment opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Full time, Part time, Work experience placement, Visa sponsorship,

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