Financial Aide Assistant

New York University • New York, NY

20h

About The Position

Prepare financial aid reports, analyses, and summaries. Maintain complex financial and budgetary spreadsheets, tracking awards and stipends to ensure proper account posting and applying calculations to data. Establish and maintain student financial records and files on an ongoing basis. Initiate and respond to various types of inquiries regarding financial aid policies, procedures, and deadlines, including those that may require additional research and investigation. Coordinate all aspects of the named scholarship process.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• 3 years of related experience.
• Experience providing a high level of customer service.
• Proficiency with intermediate-level spreadsheet, database and word processing applications.
• Knowledge of financial software package.

Nice To Haves

• 1 year of related experience in a financial or accounting firm processing a large volume of transactions (with a Bachelor's degree).
• Proficiency with intermediate-level Microsoft Excel and Word.

Responsibilities

• Prepare financial aid reports and related analyses and summaries.
• Maintain complex financial and budgetary spreadsheets; track awards and/or stipends ensuring they are posted to proper accounts, apply calculations to data and tabulate.
• Establish student financial records and files and ensure that records and files are maintained and updated on an ongoing basis.
• Initiate and respond to various types of inquiries regarding financial aid policies, procedures, deadlines, etc., including those that may require additional research and investigation and requests for information.
• Coordinate all aspects of the named scholarship process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED