Operations Director, Payment and Data Analytics

Department

Booth Accounting: Procurement and Accounts Payable

About the Department

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.

Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.

Chicago Booth is proud to claim:
-an unmatched faculty.
-degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.
-a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.
-strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities.

As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University's core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment.

For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.

Job Summary

Direct and deliver end-to-end payment processes by managing activities required to ensure an accurate accounts payable system for thirty (33) departments in Chicago booth, totaling about $70 million dollars annually. Develop and recommend policies and procedures to govern the payment to the advantage of Chicago Booth in terms of cash flow and discounts. Develop and implement a detailed roadmap of payment operations initiatives to reduce friction, increase revenue and lower costs. Plan, schedule and direct the work of the accounts payable unit of Accounting and Budget. Responsible for the FST rollout for Booth Divisional as it relates to financial operations while also closing FY25 and transitioning to FY26. The critical path included a pre- and post- go live program that provided access and support to Booth departments via updating 33 departments with essential transition updates, FST Oracle office hour program, and pre-go live information session to prepare units to be able to best navigate the uncertainty of the rollout.

Develop new financial approval programs to ensure the integrity of the Booth CFO office remains intact. Develop technical Oracle/Orbit solutions pipeline with the University technical team to address both operational and reporting deficiencies as an advocate for Booth departments. Design User Interface Retrofit Capabilities and Escalation Protocol Solution. Responsible for converting FAS COFA to Oracle COA. Create strategies that build and optimize structured and unstructured data environments for use in a range of business and operation programs. By utilizing data analytics modeling develop metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that are relevant and will help monitor change and progress and drive resource planning and utilization.

Responsibilities

• Develops, implements, and maintains systems, procedures and policies, including accounts payable functions to ensure adherence to Financial and Audit guidelines.
• Responsible for the FST rollout for Booth Divisional as it relates to financial operations, while also closing FY25 and transitioning to FY26.  The critical path included a pre- and post- go live program that provided access and support to Booth departments via updating 33 departments with essential transition updates, FST Oracle office hour program, and pre-go live information session to prepare units to be able to best navigate the uncertainty of the rollout.
• Develops new processes to align with new financial system. Develops new financial approval programs to ensure the integrity of the Booth CFO office remains intact.
• Creates a technical Oracle/Orbit solutions pipeline with the University technical team to address both operational and reporting deficiencies as an advocate for Booth departments.
• Designs user interface retrofit capabilities and executed escalation protocol solution. Develops Booth specific COA conversion from FAs to Oracle.
• Creates and implements changes to work assignments, methods, or procedures to meet operational needs, and improve accuracy and efficiency of the accounts payable system.