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Do you enjoy interacting with people by answering questions and problem solving? If you enjoy working in the accounting field, multi-tasking, and have excellent attention to detail? If so, Hawkeye Community Colleges Business Office has a great opportunity for to join their team.

At Hawkeye Community College, the Business Office is team-oriented working in partnership with multiple departments across campus. They are passionate about serving Hawkeyes students, faculty and staff on a daily basis.

As the Business Services Specialist, you are responsible for providing customer service for students, staff and visitors. This includes receiving payments, resolving student/customer issues, answering questions regarding student accounts, and helping other employees with student-related or office duties as they arise. Additionally, you are part of a rotation at our front desk who greets and directs visitors as they stop in.

Hawkeye Community College is a comprehensive community college focused on meeting the needs of the community by providing quality, affordable learning experiences for a diverse student body through our Adult Learning Center, Business and Community Education Department as well as through more than 50 career and technical programs and liberal arts transfer programs. Hawkeye Community Colleges mission is about empowering students, strengthening businesses and enriching communities with a vision to improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.

Essential Job Functions

Important responsibilities and duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Participates in the rotation of front desk coverage in a friendly and professional manner including but not limited to: greeting walk-in traffic, answering a multi-line phone system, directing calls and/or visitors to appropriate areas.
• Provides general information in response to public or official inquiries.
• Collects payments from students and nonstudents such as for testing and other miscellaneous non-student related payments.
• Sets up and maintains ACH forms of payments from students.
• Assists with the preparation and maintenance of student payment plans.
• Reviews outside scholarships to ensure student qualification and the scholarship is applied to the correct term.
• Balances scholarship reports.
• Requests information and prepares Financial Policy Waivers for committee meetings.
• Prepares, tracks and delivers invoices and/or purchase orders regarding student accounts, power technology, student tools and registration statements.
• Prepares and delivers miscellaneous student and customer invoices.
• Creates and sends reminders for overdue miscellaneous and sponsorship invoices.
• Resolves student issues, answers questions regarding their account, resolves outstanding student checks.
• Counts/keeps track of the cash in the vault.
• Administers the short-term loan process.
• Sets up new vendors in Colleague and requests W-9s from vendors.
• Verifies account payable checks with invoices and prepares for mailing.
• Provides MORE orientation speeches and/or provides a video for the Business Office portion.
• Accurately inputs information and updates and/or scans data into office systems/software applications.
• Releases and applies student restrictions and holds.
• Prepares miscellaneous spreadsheets and correspondence.
• Operates a variety of office equipment, including but not limited to copy machine, fax machine, scanner, multi-line phone system, computer etc.
• Provides back up and assists other Business Office personnel.
• Participates in campus committees as assigned.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Unless otherwise approved under Hawkeyes remote work policy, regular on campus and/or onsite attendance is considered an essential function of the position.

Minimum Qualifications

Associate's degree in a related field and two (2) years of ex erience in an office setting or an equivalent

combination of education and experience to total four (4) years.

Knowledge of financial rules and procedures.

Knowledge of general office procedures.

Demonstrated ability related to organization, time management, and verbal communication skills.

Demonstrated ability to work with a culturally diverse student population, faculty, staff, and the general

public.

Ability to demonstrate strong inter