question about job description

[frugalone]

Can someone tell me what this means in a job description:

The successful candidate maintain and track department budgets.


The job in question is for an office assistant at my college. I'm guessing this means working in Excel. I have a little bit of experience with that from the job I had before--I used to place ads in magazines and newspapers and had to keep track of the billing etc.

(Yes, I know...I'm the one who's been posting frantically about tax return errors...)

[herbgeek]

I would assume that this is using Excel, yes. You would be keeping track of how much was spent on various categories. I'm guessing that either people drop off invoices and the like to you, or you have to go around and gather them up.

[pinkytoe]

It might mean specifically departmental grant budgets - money in, money out and how it is spent and then creating monthly/annual reports as required by grantor and principal investigator. I used to do that with Excel.

[frugalone]

Thanks very much!