Highlights
We are seeking a detail-oriented Temporary Finance & Operations Assistant to support our Senior Financial Analyst with day-to-day accounting activities, invoice management, and financial reporting. Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Chicago, IL (Remote) |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $16–$20 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is the second largest private employer in Chicago. We are a multicultural, international community of more than 20,000 faculty and staff-each supporting UChicago's mission of inquiry and academic excellence. Our client is a Medical Center provides world-renowned patient care, while advancing medical science through groundbreaking research. Together, UChicago Medicine and the Biological Sciences Division are working to address the world's most pressing medical challenges.
Job Title: Operations Assistant
Duration: 3 Months
Location: Chicago, IL 60628
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Remote
Schedule: Part-time, up to 20 25 hours per week
Job Description:
About the Role
We are seeking a detail-oriented Temporary Finance & Operations Assistant to support our Senior Financial Analyst with day-to-day accounting activities, invoice management, and financial reporting. This is a temporary engagement offering hands-on exposure to finance operations within a professional Client environment.
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent required; associate or bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business preferred.
- Prior experience in an administrative, finance, or accounting support role preferred.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to handle numerical data accurately.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel (basic formulas, sorting, filtering, and data entry).
- Organized, reliable, and able to work independently on recurring tasks with minimal supervision.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive financial information appropriately.
- Experience with Oracle or other ERP/financial systems a plus but not required.
Responsibilities:
- Review, log, and track incoming invoices to ensure accurate and timely processing.
- Monitor and manage invoices from designated suppliers, verifying amounts, purchase order alignment, and payment status.
- Flag discrepancies or missing documentation and follow up with relevant stakeholders to resolve issues promptly.
- Assist with organizing, filing, and maintaining financial reports and supporting documentation in a structured manner.
- Help prepare recurring financial reports by compiling data from multiple sources and formatting for review.
- Support reconciliation activities by cross-referencing invoice records against budget and expenditure data.
- Perform data entry and maintain spreadsheets related to invoice tracking and financial reporting.
- Communicate professionally with vendors and internal teams as needed to clarify invoice details.
- Assist the Sr. Financial Analyst with ad hoc tasks and special projects as assigned.
What You'll Gain:
- Hands-on experience with financial operations, invoice processing, and budget management in a professional higher education setting.
- Exposure to Oracle financial systems and Microsoft Office Suite tools used in day-to-day finance operations.
- Mentorship and direct collaboration with a Senior Financial Analyst.
- Development of skills in attention to detail, analytical thinking, and professional communication.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
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