Administrative Support – Finance Department

Lutheran Church Charities
Northbrook, Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 10/04/2017
Categories: Administrative
Job Type: Full-Time
Employee Workplace: Unspecified
Job Description:

Administrative Support – Finance Department

 

This position is located in the busy, fast paced finance department of our Northbrook, Illinois office and requires speed, accuracy and excellent organizational skills.

 

Duties include but not are not limited to:

  • Phone reception and donor assistance as well as email response communication
  • Open and sort incoming mail
  • Entering donations in data base (Church Community Builders)
  • Scanning any donation letters, notes and/or cards into data base files.
  • Produce acknowledgement letters to donors
  • Stuffing and metering of outgoing mail
  • Credit card reconciliation with receipts and Quickbooks on monthly basis
  • Updating and adding contact information in data base (Church Community Builders)
  • Daily bank deposits online (approximately 1 per week needed at Bank location)
  • Filing of financial batches/deposits daily
  • Maintain and update Instruction Manual as needed for Financial Department
  • Keeping track of office supply inventory

 

Skills needed:

  • 55+ words per minute typing skills
  • Excellent verbal skills for phone and office reception
  • Ability to learn new procedures in data entry
  • Knowledge and use of MS Office/Outlook 2013: Excel, Word including mail merging
  • Scanning, photo editing and web browsing
  • Facebook knowledge
  • QuickBooks entry
  • Filing
  • Organizational skills

 

About Lutheran Church Charities

Lutheran Church Charities’ mission is to share the Mercy, Compassion, Presence and Proclamation of Jesus Christ to those who are suffering and in need. Originally headquartered in Addison, Illinois, and currently in Northbrook, Illinois, Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) was founded in 1947 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit ministry to help support Christian human care ministries of the Church. LCC works throughout the United States and Internationally. LCC works with, and in partnership with, our churches and is an RSO (Recognized Service Organization) of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. LCC is the Home of the Comfort Dogs. Our K-9 Ministries include the LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs, LCC Kare 9 Military Ministry serving the Military, Veterans, and their families, and the LCC K-9 Police Ministry serving police officers and their families. LCC Disaster Response coordinates, deploys and manages volunteer teams as they respond to disasters and crisis situations regionally, nationally and internationally. We operate with a Dollar In – Dollar Out funding process where every dollar given for a specific cause goes directly to that cause or need, with LCC acknowledging the gift and overseeing that the money is used as intended.
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