Business Manager

Job Description

The School of Communication seeks a full-time Business Manager to administer day-to-day business operations, purchasing, budget and fiscal activities, and fixed asset and inventory control. Responsibilities include assisting with planning, allocation, and monitoring of all School funds, drafting the School’s operating budgets each year, overseeing the reconciliation of all School accounts, monitoring established budgets to ensure spending is on track, and proposing budget adjustments as necessary. This position is responsible for fund management for multiple accounts.

Required Qualifications

• Business or operational management experience in an academic or professional office environment.
• Experience in bookkeeping, including budget development and preparation of financial reports using Excel spreadsheets and/or finance accounting applications and databases. management systems.
• Knowledge of general accounting principles.
• Knowledge of procurement/purchasing policies and procedures.
• Experience with inventory and fixed-assets control.
• Experience using various Microsoft Office software products, such as Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong interpersonal, writing and communication skills as well as the ability to maintain strict confidentiality and secure documents.
• Experience collaborating with financial teams across multiple levels of authority on business practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, management, or related field.
• Experience with Virginia Tech Equipment Trust Fund process.
• Experience with Virginia Tech’s Travel and Expense Management system, Banner Finance system.
• Knowledge of PageUp People, TimeClock Plus, MicroStrategy, Emergency Action Plan systems, and Canvas.
• Knowledge of Virginia Tech fiscal policies.

Pay Band

4

Overtime Status

Exempt: Not eligible for overtime

Appointment Type

Regular

Salary Information

Commensurate with experience; range: $60,000 to $65,000

Hours per week

40

Review Date

March 24, 2026

Additional Information

 

The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.

 

About Virginia Tech

Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech pushes the boundaries of knowledge by taking a hands-on, transdisciplinary approach to preparing scholars to be leaders and problem-solvers. A comprehensive land-grant institution that enhances the quality of life in Virginia and throughout the world, Virginia Tech is an inclusive community dedicated to knowledge, discovery, and creativity. The university offers more than 280 majors to a diverse enrollment of more than 36,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in eight undergraduate colleges, a school of medicine, a