Senior Finance Manager - VP Academic Finance

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting or equivalent in a related field, and at least 7 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous managerial experience is highly desired.
• Financial experience in a healthcare or academic setting
   

Job Summary:

Manages and assists the Director in financial and operational analysis activities with a complex functional or broad organizational scope. The senior manager will be able to assist in multiple activities at one time with little supervision.

Job Duties:

• Assists the Director with department operations, including departmental budget, staffing, and special projects.

• Maintains a documented system of policies and procedures.

• Supervises the coordination, preparation, and analysis of complex financial and operational reports, financial statements, scorecards, metrics, benchmarks, budgets, and financial forecasts across multiple areas.

• Oversees and validates complex analysis of historical and projected financial and operational data to provide leadership information to make relevant financial decisions.

• Manages and validates information to support developing trends that will inform forecasts and management decision-making.

• Identifies and utilizes technology and best practices to ensure continuous process improvement.

• Oversees the quality assurance functions of financial data and statistical information.

• Recruits, hires, evaluates, develops, mentors, and provides performance feedback to employees.

• Remains current with and progressively learns industry trends, analytical techniques, and appropriate financial systems necessary to complete essential job functions.

• Participates in the development of and adheres.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Possess and demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding, with progressive development, of financial statements and relationships, analytical techniques, operations, and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, practices, and procedures.

• Progressive development of the ability to analyze/evaluate data.

• Must possess excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively work and communicate with individuals at all levels of the institution.

• Possess advanced decision-making skills.

• Possess critical thinking skills.

• Strong organizational and planning skills.

• Effective problem-solving skills.

• Ability to develop, communicate, and accomplish goals.

• Ability to develop and deliver presentations.

• Demonstrates a high degree of professionalism.

• Actively participates with Business and Finance colleagues in completing initiatives, goals, and priorities.

• Develops productive relationships with UTMB personnel across campus while accomplishing institutional objectives.

• Interacts with UT System Administration and/or other State of Texas agencies and universities as required.