Business Manager IS&T

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Summary
Responsible for all budget development, financial tracking and analysis and business operations activities for a predetermined set of IS&T departments representing a share of the IS&T capital and operating budgets and typically supporting IS&T employees and contractors. Conducts financial review meetings with the Vice Presidents and Directors of those departments and is the first point of contact for any contractor or maintenance renewals or new requests from the IS&T departments. The IS&T Business Manager and the Director of Business Operations (DBO) develop the budgets for any large capital project including tracking and financial analysis. The IS&T Business Manager partners with the IS&T Business Operations and Vendor Relations Manager to provide information about contractor or maintenance requests or renewals that are coming from the Vice Presidents or IS&T Directors.

Job Duties

• Develops IS&T budgets and financial reporting for their assigned IS&T departments, performing monthly financial analysis and projections on budgets and actual spend to ensure they are accurate and explaining differences from budget.
• Coordinator for the financial activity of the department, and recommending accruals on a monthly basis to ensure all expense is captured in its appropriate time period.
• Point person for any contract initiation or renewals – both input of contracts and agreements into current contracting system and tracking consulting, contracts, agreements by time period covered, and spend for same.
• Interact with IS&T Senior Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents and Directors as well as the IS&T Business Operations and Vendor Relations Manager regarding vendor agreements to ensure everyone understands what is required and that requested expense is budgeted.
• Liaison between IS&T suppliers and accounts payable to ensure financial obligations of IS&T are met
• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree In business administration, finance, accounting, or related field.
• Preferred work experience will be considered in lieu of degree
• 4 years Information Technology finance, or general procurement role responsible for budgeting, expense variance analysis, and other financial analysis.
• Attention to detail and ability to analyze and solve problems and interpret data.
• Ability to work well in a team environment and to be self motivated and self disciplined.
• Knowledge of processes of assigned area(s) and applications.
• Effectively deals with multiple and changing priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree In business administration, finance, accounting, or related field.
• 4 years Information Technology finance, or general procurement role responsible for budgeting, expense variance analysis, and other financial analysis. and
• Vendor management experience preferred
• Basic knowledge of accounting principles.
• Proficient in Microsoft (Outlook, Excel, Word) and electronic inventory and general ledger systems.
• Proficiency in currently supported financial systems preferred

Physical Demands
Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing, frequent keyboard use, *patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.

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