Senior Director, Financial Operations (Mays Cancer Center)

Directs the strategic planning, budget management, and accounting functions and ensures proper execution of fiscal activities of a large or multiple- academic, research, and/or organizational units. Directs all facets and phases of financial and administrative management in collaboration with the department head.

• Designs, plans, develops, and implements the financial operations a large range of multiple academic and organizational units. 
• Oversees operational and financial performance to ensure achievement of the department's goals and strategic initiatives. 
• Drives operational and financial efficiencies and makes recommendations to optimize business performance. 
• Manages variance analysis and forecasting activities assessing opportunities via business modeling, analysis and decision support to drive improved performance to align with the institutional mission. 
• Provides data interpretation and education to ensure benchmark processes are interpreted and implemented correctly and are understood. 
• Recommends strategies and solutions for analyzing and benchmarking various financial components of higher education. 
• Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training employees; setting and adjusting pay rates and hours of work; planning and directing work; appraising productivity and efficiency, handling complaints/grievances and disciplining when necessary. 
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

• Critical Thinking Skills - Ability to accurately identify, define and analyze problems and situations, and develop innovative solutions by visualizing new potentials, and rational and intuitive processes. 
• Leadership - Ability to attract and mobilize energies and talents; motivate teams to work towards a shared purpose and high performance; and to collaborate across the institution to drive continuous improvement.
• Communication - Ability to influence various stakeholders in ways that effectively capture interest, inform and gain support. 
• Project Management - Ability to coordinate the planning, execution and change management components of to achieve desired results while balancing time, cost and quality. 
• Teamwork - Builds and maintains positive working relationships, within individual work groups and across departments, through open communication and intentional collaboration; to accomplish goals and objectives. 
• Business Acumen - Demonstrates a clear understanding of all areas of the business associated with an academic medical center (education, research, clinical care) including the needs of various – customers and stakeholders (students, trainees, faculty, community), accreditation and regulatory compliance requirements, resources, industry trends, technologies and best practices, and uses skills in collaborating, planning, prioritizing, decision-making, and resource allocation to drive desired results.