Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide support to the Finance Department Chair, MSF program director, Assistant Head of Administration and other senior staff, to develop the Finance course schedule each semester; enter course schedule information into Banner and revise information, as necessary.
• Assess the needs of Finance students, Gies Business students, Business minor students and other students on campus to determine whether more or fewer sections of a course should be offered, note any pain points from students and faculty and recommend suggestions on how to modify the schedule to alleviate issues.
• Provide FIN program knowledge and expertise in multi-department and Gies College of Business committee meetings.
• Assist senior staff in formulating scheduling policies, based on CMSS policies and procedures.
• Act as a liaison to campus and serve as a resource person for faculty and department staff.
• Collect textbook orders from faculty and coordinate with UI bookstore.
• Request FLEX forms and monitor FLEX scores for FIN faculty.
• Submit course proposals for FIN; closely monitor progress from inception to end and respond to inquiries as necessary.
• Provide administrative support to Finance program staff (opening/closing office, answering phones, scheduling appointments/meetings, etc.)

• Facilitate student registration and manage issues that arise during student registration.
• Monitor course enrollment and identify courses that may need to be cancelled due to low enrollment.
• Monitor online reporting of student grades to the Office of Admission and Records. Approve online grade changes.
• Maintain advising guides and cross-campus agreements for Finance courses.
• Process audit requests for visiting scholars.
• Process independent study applications and authorize students for internship credit.

• Serve as primary support for faculty. Format, proofs, copies, and prepares exams and other materials.
• Coordinate combined exams, conflict exams, makeup exams and ensure rooms and proctors are available for all exams. Provide proctoring services for students with accommodations.
• Assists Sr. Associate Director of Finance Graduate Programs with maintenance of student files; follows up on missing requirements. Maintain routine correspondence with students in the program inboxes.

• Develop spreadsheets and reports
• Compiles and analyzes prior semester schedules, enrollment data and information, evaluate and summarize findings.
• Other duties as assigned.