Job Description
Business Specialist III
Posting Number: SP005025P
Division/College: College of Agricultural & Life Sciences
Department: College of Agricultural & Life Sciences
Location: Moscow
Posting Context Statement:
Position Overview:
- Purchasing identified goods and services
- Submitting invoices and receipts for payment
- Accepting and recording payments
- Reconciling purchasing card statements
- Processing travel claims and reimbursements
- Tracking transactions through completion in the centralized financial system
- Filing and maintaining unit-level finance documents
- Originating personnel actions and processing corrections to pay in the centralized financial system
- Developing, compiling, and summarizing data for routine reports and ad hoc financial management reports
- Researching and correcting discrepancies or errors
- Providing assistance to departments on questions related to invoices, receipts, financial reports and other transactions
- Researching, analyzing, and making recommendations for management decision making
- Serving as departmental grant administrator, assisting principal investigator with pre- and post-award financial activities. May participate in budget development and compilation and submission of proposals and project reports
- Other duties as assigned
Required Experience:
- Three years providing financial processing support within an electronic finance system
- Using spreadsheet software to compile, summarize, analyze, and report on financial data
- Interpreting and applying financial stewardship policies, procedures, rules and regulations
Required Education:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
Required Other:
- None
Additional Preferred:
- Two (2) years of experience providing financial support
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or Accounting (a Bachelor’s degree is preferred)
- Experience using Excel, Banner and Argos to enter, retrieve and edit financial data and to develop financial reports
- Experience with financial record keeping methods
- Experience researching and compiling financial information and preparing summaries and reports in spreadsheet software
- Experience managing multiple competing deadlines while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- Maintaining confidentiality while managing highly sensitive documents and information
- Experience with written communication skills and developing and maintaining working relationships
- Experience working in higher education
- Familiarity with land-grant institutions and the Extension system
- Ability to communicate effectively with individuals both verbally and in writing
Physical Requirements & Working Conditions:
- None
Degree Requirement:
N/A: No degree requirement
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Employee Category: Classified
Pay Range: $26.87 per hour, or more depending on education and experience.
Type of Appointment: _of_Appointment
FTE:
Full Time/Part Time: Full Time
Funding:
A visa sponsorship is available for the position listed in this vacancy: No
Posting Date: 09/17/2025
Closing Date: 01/04/2026
Open Until Filled: No
Special Instructions to Applicants:
If you would like to receive a full position description, please email Dayna Willis at dwillis@uidaho.edu and request that one be sent to you.
Applicant Resources: https://www.uidaho.edu/human-resources/careers/applicant-resources
Background Check Statement:
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