Niki Buesing is the new assistant treasurer for the Kansas East Conference. (photo by Susan Cooper)
By Susan Cooper
Associate director of Communications
TOPEKA—When Niki Buesing was interviewing for the assistant treasurer position for the Kansas East Conference, she asked the hiring team how long they expected it would take for the person filling the job to be comfortable doing it. The answer was 13 months—an annual cycle and a bit more.
Buesing thoroughly impressed the hiring team with her interview and her references.
Rev. Gary Beach, director of Connectional Ministries and Administrative Services, said, “I’ve never heard people rave about a former employee like [her references] did. Three people from two of her former employment places said they’d hire her back ‘at the drop of a hat.’”
Her excellent communication skills were cited as a major asset by her former employers. Solid communication is one of her goals in this new position.
“I want the conference to feel comfortable with the information I give them and to be able to understand it,” Buesing said. “That’s something that’s huge to me no matter where I’ve worked—the person who doesn’t do my job everyday needs to be able to understand it.”
She hopes to bring some simplification and perhaps change to the accounting processes.
She describes herself as a “military brat” whose father was in the Air Force. The family moved to Warrensburg, Mo., when Buesing was 13 years old.
Buesing has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration with accounting emphasis from the University of Central Missouri.
She worked at large public accounting firm in Kansas City for one year, at a smaller accounting firm for two years at Lee’s Summit and then as a commercial credit analyst for three and a half years in Rochester, Minn.
This spring, she and her husband, Chris, moved their four children from Rochester, Minn., to Topeka when he accepted a job as group leader for facility operations at Target’s distribution center.
She officially began her job as assistant treasurer June 14.
Beach said he is grateful to find someone with Buesing’s experience and education to fill the position.
