Assistant VP, Financial Planning & Analysis
About the role
The Assistant Vice President (AVP) for Budgeting and Financial Planning & Analysis reports to the Vice President for Business and Finance. This role oversees three finance verticals: Budgeting Headquarters, Auxiliaries Finance, and Administrative & Institutional Support. Key responsibilities include leading the annual and long-range budget planning framework, managing in-year budget monitoring and reporting, and providing financial analysis and business insights.
Responsibilities
Strategic Budget Leadership & Planning: Lead the annual and long-range budget planning framework, including processes, tools, and analytical insights, to support executive leadership decision making. Serve as a trusted partner to campus leaders to prioritize spend in support of the mission of the University.
Budget Hearing & Annual Budget Development: Lead the annual budget hearing process to collect, analyze, and explain financial and student performance trends and recommended future plans for executive and system-level review. Lead the annual budget development process to ensure submissions to the University System of Georgia are delivered timely, comprehensively, and accurately.
In-Year Budget Monitoring & Reporting: Ensure there is an effective budget policy and process framework to efficiently manage budgets across the University, including forecasting in year risks and opportunities versus plan and supporting reallocations as needed. Provide timely and accurate budget reporting and variance analysis for internal and external stakeholders.
Budget Systems Strategy, Data Governance & Reporting: Serve as the University’s functional lead for Workday Adaptive Planning, ensuring the platform effectively supports annual budget development, quarterly budget/actuals reporting, forecasting, scenario analysis, and executive dashboards. Oversee the design and evolution of budget models, reporting hierarchies, and planning templates to align with institutional needs and USG reporting requirements. Establish governance practices for budgeting and planning data (definitions, standards, and validation), partnering with campus stakeholders to promote consistent reporting and reduce reconciliation effort.
Financial Analysis & Business Insights: Continuously assess and elevate business insights on revenue and expenses to provide outstanding decision support to the leadership team and broader campus partners. Ensure budget teams are supported in business systems and tools that are effective in delivering needed insights.
People, Performance & Organizational Leadership: Run performance management processes to ensure objectives are set and reviewed, and develop recommendations for business continuity, including succession planning for key roles. Support associates in capability development.
Requirements
Education: Bachelor's Degree Required. Master's Degree Preferred.
Experience: Five to ten years of experience in a similar role or equivalent experience in FP&A and budgeting. MBA, MPA or CPA preferred.
Preferred Experience: Experience in Higher Education and, specifically, the University System of Georgia.
Qualifications
Ability to provide thought leadership on the evolution of financial planning and analysis responsibilities and interactions university-wide, including enhanced revenue planning, productivity tracking, business performance tracking, and auxiliary reporting.
Demonstrated ability to ensure adherence to USG/BOR/University internal controls and financial reporting policies and procedures applicable to budgeting.
Ability to establish and maintain enterprise-level controls to effectively plan, monitor, and forecast in-year and multi-year budgets. Significant errors or omissions may result in material over- or under-spending, or losses due to poor business decisions, with serious ramifications for the University and stakeholders.
Skills
Ability to provide thought leadership on the evolution of financial planning and analysis responsibilities and interactions university-wide, including enhanced revenue planning, productivity tracking, business performance tracking, and auxiliary reporting.
Ability to establish and maintain enterprise-level controls to effectively plan, monitor, and forecast in-year and multi-year budgets. Significant errors or omissions may result in material over- or under-spending, or losses due to poor business decisions, with serious ramifications for the University and stakeholders.
Benefits
Proposed Salary: $145,000-$160,000 Annually. Paid on a Monthly Basis.
Pay
Proposed Salary: $145,000-$160,000 Annually. Paid on a Monthly Basis.
Schedule
Full-time position.