University of Wisconsin - Madison
SVM Business Services Accounting Assistant
🇺🇸
Madison, WI
🕑
Part-Time
💰
$20 - $25
per Hour
💻
Finance
🗓️
April 16th, 2026
Edtech.com's Summary
The University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine is hiring a Business Services Accounting Assistant. This role involves supporting the school's financial operations by performing administrative and financial tasks such as preparing accounting journals, reconciling funds, maintaining logs, and assisting with budgeting and special projects on a seasonal and project basis.
Highlights
- Support financial operations including purchasing, expense reimbursement, gift processing, cash management, reconciliation, data analysis, financial reporting, and budgeting.
- Perform tasks such as preparing accounting journals, records retention, assisting with fund reconciliation, maintaining deposit logs, updating staff funding, and entering budgets and forecasts.
- Work approximately 8-10 hours per week with flexible scheduling Monday through Friday, supporting the student's academic schedule; must be available during summer months.
- Use MS Office Suite, especially Excel and Outlook; advanced Excel skills like lookup formulas and pivot tables are a plus.
- Learn and work within the Workday financial system.
- Handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion and professionalism.
- Must be majoring in Accounting with at least 9 credits in introductory Accounting courses including concepts of debits, credits, and accrual accounting.
- Strong communication, organizational, time management, customer service, and teamwork skills required.
- Physical ability to sit or stand for prolonged periods and lift up to 20 pounds occasionally.
- Compensation ranges from $20.00 to $25.00 per hour.
SVM Business Services Accounting Assistant Full Description
Department Overview:
| The Business Services Office (BSO) at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) oversees the day-to-day financial operations of the school and provides financial support and expertise in the areas of purchasing, expense reimbursement, gift processing, cash management, reconciliation, data analysis, financial reporting and budgeting.
Anticipated Start Date:
| 4/24/2026
Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):
|
Remote Work Eligibility Detail:
| Not Remote
Anticipated Hours Per Week:
| Minimum: 15
Schedule:
| This position offers flexible scheduling between Monday and Friday, 8:00 am-4:00 pm, to support the student's academic schedule. Work is on-site and assigned on a project basis, which may result in occasional gaps in scheduling for some of the weeks, if there are no projects available.
Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:
| Minimum: $20.00 Maximum: $25.00
Number of Positions:
| 1
Qualifications:
| Majoring in Accounting with at least 9 credits of introductory Accounting classes completed, covering concepts of debits, credits and accrual accounting
Availability to work in the office over summer months
Availability to work in the office over summer months
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
| Experience using MS Office Suite, especially Excel and Outlook. Advanced Excel skills, such as lookup formulas and creating pivot tables are a plus, but not required.
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to manage time effectively to meet key deadlines
Ability to maintain confidentiality with sensitive information
Ability to follow procedures consistently and accurately, with a high level of attention to Demonstrate professionalism in the work environment
Demonstrate teamwork, integrity, and accountability
Excellent customer service skills
Attention to detail
Ability to use technology to continually learn, communicate with team members, and enhance service delivery
Ability to learn and work within the Workday financial system
Excellent organizational skills
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to manage time effectively to meet key deadlines
Ability to maintain confidentiality with sensitive information
Ability to follow procedures consistently and accurately, with a high level of attention to Demonstrate professionalism in the work environment
Demonstrate teamwork, integrity, and accountability
Excellent customer service skills
Attention to detail
Ability to use technology to continually learn, communicate with team members, and enhance service delivery
Ability to learn and work within the Workday financial system
Excellent organizational skills
Position Summary/Job Duties:
| In this role, you’ll be part of a collaborative team of finance professionals who support the School of Veterinary Medicine’s financial operation. The responsibilities include a variety of administrative and financial tasks that are mostly seasonal and project based, such as preparing accounting journals, records retention, assisting with reconciliation of funds, maintaining deposit logs, updating staff funding, entering budgets and forecast, and assisting with other one-time special projects, as needed. While the position averages approximately 8-10 hours per week, hours may vary from week to week, due to the seasonal and project based nature of the work, including occasional weeks when no work is available. Student must be available to work during the summer months. This position involves handling sensitive and confidential information, discretion and professionalism are essential.
Physical Demands:
| Job requires ability to sit and/or stand for prolonged amount of time. Ability to lift up to 20 pounds occasionally.
Institutional Statements:
| Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.
Institutional Statement on Diversity:Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu
Accommodation Statement: If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/
Institutional Statement on Diversity:Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu
Accommodation Statement: If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/
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