Accounting & Reporting Manager

Responsibilities

• Provides guidance to subordinates within the latitude of established university policies
• Recommends changes to accounting processes, as appropriate, to increase efficiencies
• Manages work to ensure department objectives are being achieved according to standards and timelines
• Frequently interacts with subordinate supervisors and functional peer groups
• Regularly participates in interactions to gain cooperation of others, conducts presentations, and exchanges accounting-related information
• Supervises and guides staff
• Oversees analysis and policy development for issues and processes

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related area
• 7 or more years of experience in an organization comparable to UCSF in terms of size, complexity, and scope of operation
• 4 or more years’ experience in a leadership role in a large diversified and complex finance focused environment, requiring motivating and managing a diverse group of people towards a common goal
• Knowledge of large scale integrated ERP financial systems (e.g., PeopleSoft, Oracle, Workday, SAP)
• Thorough knowledge of finance, accounting, business and systems operations and regulatory compliance requirements
• Thorough understanding and familiarity with all of GAAP, GASB, and FASB
• Proven ability to deliver results in a dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders
• Demonstrated experience with preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and related presentations, and detailed variance analysis
• Demonstrated experience with improving business processes and accounting policies, to ensure efficient and effective internal controls, data integrity and compliance with internal and external policies and requirements
• Demonstrated ability to analyze, interpret and document financial results trends and variances timely (on an ad hoc, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis)
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in written and oral forms with executive, senior management, faculty, staff, managers and technical staff
• Demonstrated ability to develop solutions that meet the needs of customers with diverse skill sets in a decentralized environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively across the organization at all levels.
• Ability to work well in a collegial environment
• Excellent service orientation skills; strong skills in management and leadership; excellent ability to use critical thinking, sound judgment, and decision-making skills to creatively solve problems
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills