Financial Services Coordinator

Metropolitan Community College comprises five campuses on the Missouri side of the Greater Kansas City area 47 major buildings and about 550 acres in all: MCC-Blue River, located in Independence, Missouri; MCC-Longview located in Lee's Summit, Missouri, MCC-Maple Woods located in the Northland of Kansas City, Missouri; MCC-Online and MCC-Penn Valley, located in Midtown Kansas City, Missouri.

MCC is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. In addition, several programs have specific accreditations as well.

***MCC does not provide employer-paid sponsorships.

Job Summary

Incumbent provides comprehensive and professional administrative support, and assists with financial/accounting analysis and research, and projects for an assigned functional area. Major duties and responsibilities include ensuring compliance with Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, College policies, processes, procedures, standards, and requirements; providing highly skilled assistance to departments; scheduling and coordinating meetings; preparing financial documentation; processing requisitions; maintaining data; and preparing analytical or statistical reports.

Essential Functions

• Provides highly skilled assistance to the department; work may involve reviewing applications or other information to determine program eligibility or compliance with Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, policies, procedures, standards, and requirements; and assisting with coordinating special project operations
• Manages an assigned budget; work may involve monitoring and authorizing program expenditures, and making and implementing recommendations related to budget processes and procedures
• Plans, schedules, and coordinates meetings; work may involve reserving rooms and other spaces; contacting and sending out notifications to appropriate personnel, vendors, and other agencies; maintaining calendars; monitoring staff operations; transcribing and sending out minutes; preparing meeting agendas; and administering contracts
• Prepares, edits, formats, reconciles, maintains, and/or submits financial documentation, analytical and statistical reports, financial reports, communications materials, records, letters, files, policy and personnel documents, and other documentation; work may include compiling and analyzing information, and making and implementing related recommendations
• Performs customer service duties to include providing general and specific information to employees and vendors via phone, email, or in person
• Coordinates district-wide business travel for the department. This consists of arranging/booking airfare, hotel, registrations, car rentals, and other travel logistics
• Coordinates with internal and external personnel, departments, and agencies to communicate information, serve as liaison, represent the department/College, and facilitate departmental operations
• Performs office management duties to include maintaining inventory; ordering supplies; and sorting and distributing mail
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Physical Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associate's degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or related areas*
• Three (3) years' experience in accounting/finance support or related area

*Minimum Education Qualification can be substituted with an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of project coordination principles
• Knowledge of research methods
• Knowledge of troubleshooting and solving administrative program issues
• Knowledge of general accounting and bookkeeping practices
• Knowledge of computers and related software applications
• Knowledge of general ledger reporting techniques
• Knowledge of mathematical concepts
• Knowledge of data review techniques
• Knowledge of customer service principles
• Knowledge of automated accounting software packages
• Knowledge of grant writing/proposal success
• Skilled in planning, coordinating, and implementing administrative program components and activities
• Skilled in analyzing processes and making recommendations for improvement
• Skilled in ensuring compliance with applicable internal and/or external program requirements
• Skilled in monitoring and maintaining an administrative program budget
• Skilled in troubleshooting and solving program issues
• Skilled in applying accounting principles and practices
• Skilled in tabulating, recording, and balancing transactions
• Skilled in reviewing and resolving account discrepancies
• Skilled in compiling and verifying financial data
• Skilled in preparing and maintaining financial and complex clerical records and reports
• Skilled in providing customer service
• Skilled in conducting mathematical calculations
• Skilled in maintaining confidentiality
• Skilled in operating a computer and related software applications
• Skilled in utilizing communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, and others sufficient to exchange or convey information

Physical Requirements

Positions in this class typically require feeling, grasping, hearing, keyboarding, reaching, repetitive motion, standing, talking, visual acuity, and walking. The work is light work which requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects.

Supplemental Information

EEO Statement:

Metropolitan Community College is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, birth ancestry, national origin, or disability. EOE/ M/ F/ Vets/ Disabled

Accommodations:

MCC is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, MCC will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations in all aspects of employment, including the application process. To request an accommodation and/or a copy of the Americans with Disabilities Act applicant procedures, please contact the Office of Human Resources.

Organization

Long before Kansas City looked the way it does today, a group of people believed the region needed a place where anyone could get an education that led somewhere. That belief became Kansas City Polytechnic Institute in 1915, and a few years later, the Junior College of Kansas City, one of the first schools in the country to award an associate degree. Over a century later, that same idea still drives the institution known today as Metropolitan Community College.

MCC is the oldest public institution of higher learning in Kansas City, Missouri, and that history isn't just a footnote. It's the foundation for a mission that hasn't changed: open doors, build skills, and help people move forward, whether that means a first degree, a career change, or a new trade learned close to home. Today, MCC offers 125 associate degree and certificate programs across five campuses on the Missouri side of the Kansas City area: Blue River, Longview, Maple Woods, Penn Valley, and MCC-Online, spanning 47 buildings and roughly 550 acres.

But campuses and buildings only tell part of the story. What makes MCC matter is the people inside them, faculty who show up for students navigating school alongside jobs and families, staff who help someone find their footing, and colleagues who understand that this work changes the trajectory of a life. MCC is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, and several of its programs carry additional specialized accreditation, a reflection of a place that takes its responsibility to students seriously without losing sight of why the work exists in the first place.

For more than a hundred years, MCC has been part of how Kansas City grows and moves forward. The next chapter is being written now, by the people who choose to build their careers here. There's a place in that story for you.