Open Rank Finance and Operations Professional (Senior – Principal)

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department: Psychiatry

Job Title: Open Rank Finance and Operations Professional (Senior – Principal)

Position #: 00781595 – Requisition #: 40371

Job Summary:

The Department of Psychiatry (DOP) seeks a Finance and Operations Professional to assist with Division of Addiction Science, Prevention, and Treatment Research Section Administration. The Finance and Operations Professional is responsible for overall Division duties, and specifically for the Research Section which includes multiple research faculty PIs and their individual R and K awards as well as a large P50 Center and industry sponsored clinical trials. The Finance and Operations Professional may assist the Program Director with other areas of the Division or Department with special projects and initiatives.

Other routine financial responsibilities will include funding processes, budgeting, contracting processing/tracking, payment tracking, and finance processes internal to the University system such as Journal Entries (JEs) and Payroll Expense Transfers (PETs), productivity reporting and analysis, and related fin ops activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build close, ongoing relationships with financial, operational, and research leaders within the School of Medicine, throughout the Anschutz Medical Campus and our external partners to advocate for the Division/Department, represent Psychiatry research, and continually strengthen partnerships and seek collaborations.

• Develop budgets and perform monthly budget forecast and reconciliations of Division programs/projects across a mix of funding sources including gift/endowment, auxiliary, general fund, grant, contract and CU Medicine funds.

• Pre- and Post-Award grants management:

  • Act as liaison between external funding sources, and internal operations offices.

  • Life cycle management of grants, contracts and subcontracts. 

  • Application budget development, start up, subcontract establishment, compliance review, tracking, invoice processing, monthly financial review and reconciliation, annual progress reports, project closeout, etc. 

• Monitor awards for budget compliance, appropriate expense and accounting transactions, prepare budget reports and update PIs accordingly.

• Monitor approved Division gift card programs, Act as Approving Official (AO) for PCard expense report reviews.

• Process JEs, PETs and funding changes.

• Assist in employee recruitment, onboarding and annual performance reviews.

• Procurement of goods and services.

• Perform travel expense report reviews.

• Assist in Division Space and Asset management.

Work Location:

Hybrid – this role is eligible for a hybrid schedule of 3 days per week on campus.

Why Join Us:

The Department of Psychiatry is one of the largest units in the Sc