Financial Specialist II
MADISON, WITemporary$25/hrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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The Financial Specialist II processes invoices, checks, supplier records, and fiscal transactions for the UW System. The role requires independent decision-making to enforce business rules and ensure supplier information is collected, verified, and entered accurately. It is an on-site, five-day-per-week, two-year terminal appointment that may be extended or converted to an ongoing appointment based on need or funding.
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JOB REQUIREMENTS: Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process. Job Category:University Staff Employment Type:Terminal (Fixed Term) Job Profile:Financial Specialist II Job Summary: This Financial Specialist II will process electronic and paper invoices, log checks, run daily reports while helping create supplier records and the ongoing maintenance of existing suppliers utilized by all campuses in the UW System. The supplier file, within Workday and ShopUW+ supplier modules, requires a high level of independent decision making to ensure all business rules are enforced. The supplier file requires adherence to a complex set of rules to ensure all necessary information is properly collected, verified, and entered for use in purchase order creation, vouchering, payment handling and routing. Accuracy and attention to detail are critical to this position to minimize risk and ensure data integrity. This position will be on site 5 days a week. This is a 2-year terminal appointment with the possibility of being extended or converted to an ongoing appointment based on need and/or funding. Key Job Responsibilities: Audits or processes advanced transactions and assigns funding codes in accordance with established rules, regulations, and policies Audits or reconciles original purchase documents with payments Creates general reporting for transactions Audits, monitors, organizes, and updates fiscal records, reports, and affiliated materials Reviews transaction processing internal controls and recommends policies and procedures Answers advanced fiscal questions and provides information based on set materials and standards to various audiences Drafts communications and advanced reports and maintains organization of varied records to provide administrative support within a specified work unit Sorting, opening, and scanning of mail and processing of daily checks Reallocates expenses to appropriate funding strings Department: Division of Business Services, Disbursements Compensation: The anticipated starting hourly rate for the position is $25/hour (but is... For full info follow application link. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply. 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/ ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: ipc.us/t/60528A5497F4410B
How this job compares
Set against the 441 open Accounts Payable jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$25/hr
- US median$23–28/hr93 hourly ranges
This rate, $25/hr, is close to the US median midpoint ($25/hr) — in the middle half of Accounts Payable hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 17 open Accounts Payable jobs in Wisconsin and 441 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- Accounts Payable postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (271 postings).
- Education
- 83 of the 441 open Accounts Payable jobs (19%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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