http://careers.gatesfoundation.org/feeds/receivable-Seattle-WA-jobs/ Custom RSS Feed for receivable-Seattle-WA-jobs Sun, 19 May 2013 00:22:44 GMT en-us /sites/gates/images/logo.png http://careers.gatesfoundation.org/feeds/receivable-Seattle-WA-jobs/ 720 DivisionFinance and StrategyDepartmentN/ALocationSeattleFoundation OverviewGuided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people-especially those with the fewest resources-have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

Group SummaryThe Finance and Strategy group is responsible for implementing and maintaining operating procedures designed to ensure rigorous stewardship of the foundation's financial resources. We oversee the business processes that govern the foundation's basic grantmaking and risk management; evaluate and improve the impact of the foundation's grantmaking; and produce accurate and transparent financial analyses and reports. We also coordinate public-private partnerships across the different grantmaking areas to optimize effectiveness and share best practices, and we drive a number of special initiatives related to planning for substantial increases in long-term payout and overall growth.

ResponsibilitiesResponsible for auditing employee, domestic non-employee and international non-employee travel expenses to ensure compliance with domestic and international Travel & Expense Policies and laws. Assist with the maintenance and the day-to-day operations of the foundation's corporate credit card provider and electronic expense reporting system. Build and distribute reporting from the electronic expense reporting system. Manage the employee credit card accounts and manage company payments to the bank for employee expenses, through administration of expense reports.
- Audit Employee Travel & Expense expenditures to ensure compliance with domestic and international policies and applicable laws.
- Audit domestic and international non-staff participant travel expenditures to ensure compliance with non-staff travel & Expense policy as well as domestic and international laws.
- Develop, program and maintain travel and expense reporting with the Cognos 10 report designing platform, which requires in-depth knowledge of SQL, database joining techniques and report authoring skills.
- Receive and respond in a timely and highly professional manner to high-volume questions/issues regarding Travel & Expense Policy, Credit Card program and Electronic Expense Reporting System.
- Administer the Foundation Credit Card Program.
- Analyze and prepare ad-hoc reports.
- Support employees with Credit Card and Expense questions.


Qualifications- Associate's or BA degree preferred and/or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in processing Employee T&E reconciliations/payments utilizing automated accounting systems.
- Has good understanding of general accounting principles.
- Experience assisting and maintaining a corporate credit card web tool; or high volume Accounts Payable employee expense reimbursements.
- Experience with travel and expense report processing audits and has participated in corporate financial month end closings.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in an environment requiring diplomacy and good judgment in managing interactions with individuals at all levels inside the organization.
- Possess strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Has demonstrated a willingness and enthusiasm to temporarily step outside of hired role to help where help is needed.
- Demonstrated experience using and proficiency with MSWord, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and automated accounting systems. Experience with Concur is preferred.
- Commitment to the foundation's core values, mission, and programs.

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive background check.

Requisition Number3852BR

]]>Sat, 11 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://careers.gatesfoundation.org/job/Seattle-Employee-Expense-Administrator-Job-WA-98101/2427970/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.gatesfoundation.org/job/Seattle-Employee-Expense-Administrator-Job-WA-98101/2427970/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS DivisionChief Administrative OfficeDepartmentN/ALocationSeattleFoundation OverviewGuided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people-especially those with the fewest resources-have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

Group SummaryThe Chief Administrative Office facilitates critical connections that support the foundation in both programmatic and operational capacities. It is responsible for the foundation's grantee partner engagement and human resources functions as well as facilities and security.

ResponsibilitiesThe GPE Program Manager is a limited term employment position for a maximum of three years designed to put in place repeatable processes for administering grantee and partner feedback via surveys (GPR and interim pulse surveys) and focus groups/interviews (Grantee Advisory Community). Complex project management across multiple projects is required with a focus on change management to ensure the processes are both adopted and scalable.

This position will also be responsible for developing the fledgling Grantee Advisory Community in a way that takes modest effort over time, but provides robust feedback from a wide range of grantees to ensure teams without direct access to our grantees and partners have opportunities to learn and implement based on grantee/partner perspective to improve our overall impact as an organization.

In addition, this position will identify and help teams adopt best practices in how to engage grantees and partners in dialogue through a wide variety of tools and methods. This position will collaborate with HR and Comms to integrate and promote adoption at scale these practices and skills.

Additional responsibilities include:

Provide program design, project management and support to the GPE team in the rollout of feedback mechanisms including the Grantee Perceptions Report and develop ongoing practices through next GPR scheduled for 2016.
- Collaborate with Human Resources to develop rollout plan and communications to support inclusion of grantee feedback in Performance Partnership.
- Coordinate, execute, and track communications and facilitation to support rollout of grantee perceptions report results with foundation divisions, thirty-three grant-making teams, and grantees.
- Coordinate cross survey analysis for GPR and Organizational Health survey by Business Intelligence and Organizational Research Services.
- Manage additional GPR analysis requests from divisions and grant-making teams.
- Manage qualitative grantee data collection and communication of results across the foundation.
- Manage timelines, milestones, and process documentation.
- Develop rhythm of feedback cycle to inform 2014 grantee feedback cycle and institutionalize practices through next GPR.
- Debrief process, document and implement repeatable practices to support on-going feedback collection efforts.

Manage the overall Grantee Advisory Community and develop templates and practices to reduce the need to actively manage by 2016.
- Provide ongoing support and facilitation for the Investment Harmonization Grantee and Vendor Advisory Community.
- Coordinate and execute communications to facilitate growth of grantee advisory community.
- Provide support for teams to utilize grantee advisory community for feedback.
- Model quality interactions and clear and consistent communication in wide range of interactions with grantees as advisors.
- Facilitate and provide ongoing support for grantee advisory community, monitor and track community members.

Provide project management and support to program teams in partnership with Communications and HR to support dialogues with grantees in a way that fosters integration and scaled adoption.
- Provide support for teams in their efforts to engage in dialogue with grantees about the feedback they have received.
- Document and publish sample materials and best practices from supporting teams in reporting back to grantees and action planning.
- Align GPE planning and training rollout efforts with Human Resources and Investment Harmonization.

Qualifications- Master's/MBA degree with 11+ years of experience.
- Ideally looking for someone with experience working within a grantee organization.
- Demonstrated commitment to the foundation's mission.
- Diplomatic skills and ability to work well with others in different and often high pressure situations is critical.
- Manage confidential information from both internal and external sources.
- Excellent organizational skills, ability to prioritize and multi-task, ability to coordinate with and motivate others, and to meet tight deadlines.
- Experience working with high-level individuals in complex, unstructured situations.
- History of success in roles requiring logical, systematic thinking while managing multiple priorities in a changing environment.
- Must be able to create and cultivate trust and transparency in all relationships.
- Demonstrated success in scheduling, logistics, event planning with experience in staffing senior leadership, preparing briefing materials, memorandums, etc.
- Strong communications skills including writing, editing, verbal communications, and facilitation skills.
- Ability to work with flexibility, efficiency, enthusiasm, and diplomacy, both individually and as part of a complex team.
- Experience with change management approaches and tools.
- Ability to travel up to 10% domestically and internationally.

As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.


Requisition Number4095BR

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