The Associate Director, Financial Operations, Central Business Services Office CBSO) manages the day-to-day operations of the business operations arm of CBSO. This position oversees three distinct functions; Accounting, Travel, and Procurement.

• The Associate Director will regularly perform complex financial, budgetary, and accounting analyses and provide consultation and recommendations to a variety of supported University executives and unit heads regarding funding and business decisions for their units. The Associate Director prepares, recommends, and implements appropriate business practices and procedures to create an effective and efficient support unit that works collaboratively with both central and unit stakeholders.
• This position directs and supervises the CBSO business operations team, which oversees and processes more than $100 million of transactions running through 500 state, grand, and foundation gift accounts. This position has decision-making authority over transactional execution of functions performed by CBSO in support of Federal, State, and University Policies and standards.
• This position will supervise multiple different employee groups and is responsible for understanding policies related to those groups. The Associate Director is responsible for handling escalating employee conflicts, discipline, employee development, performance management, and resourcing staffing needs.
• This position reports to the Director of CBSO, and a performance evaluation is conducted annually.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree plus three years of progressively responsible experience with financial/operations responsibilities*; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience* equal to six years.
• Two years’ experience supervising a team of employees.
• Experience should demonstrate subject matter expertise in one or more of the following functional areas of finance and contracting administration: budget management, funding restrictions, purchasing and contracting standards, and accounting principles.

Professional Competencies

• Ability to advance diversity and inclusion efforts through their own actions and influencing the actions of others.
• Understanding of effective supervisory practices and techniques, employee and employer relationships, and management principles.
• Discretion, tact, and appropriate judgment when handling sensitive and or confidential materials.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and provide proactive, effective change leadership.
• Ability to build productive relationships with internal and external constituencies.
• Ability to exercise good judgment, and diplomacy, and to make decisions prudently.
• Ability to assess, analyze, interpret, and prioritize.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a complex environment serving multiple constituencies and stakeholders.
• Supervisory experience with responsibility for three or more employees.
• Experience with shared services models in higher education or a similarly complex organization.
• Experience with complex campus management systems; examples, Workday, Banner, PeopleSoft, MyTrack, Kronos, ADP etc.