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Associate Vice Chancellor, Financial Planning & Analysis

University of California, Riverside · Riverside County, CA · 1 mo ago
Sales$188k–$385k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule only if content present. We must extract relevant info from posting. Let's parse. Position Information: includes submission details, deadline, open until filled, presentation requirement. Those are not headings we need? Could go under About the role? Probably "About the role" includes description of role, responsibilities, etc. We'll need to decide. We have sections: About the role (maybe overview), Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include only sections with real content. We have salary info: full salary range $187,500 - $385,100, expected pay scale up to $315,000 annually. So Pay section should contain that. Schedule: not mentioned. No schedule info. So omit. Benefits: mention "As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies..." Not benefits. There's a link to Employee Benefits Overview but no detail. So we should not create Benefits section because no specific benefits described. The instruction: never create Benefits unless posting actually states them. So omit. Skills: we can extract many skill requirements: expert ability to communicate, interpersonal skills, etc. Could put under Skills. Requirements: educational requirements, experience requirements, etc. Qualifications: maybe preferred qualifications? There's a "Preferred Qualifications" section after Minimum Requirements. Also "Preferred Experience". We'll treat Qualifications as both required and preferred? Usually Requirements = mandatory, Qualifications = preferred. We'll split. Let's gather content. Overview/About the role: The paragraph describing role: "The Associate Vice Chancellor for Financial Planning & Analysis (AVC, FP&A) serves as a senior finance leader responsible for leading the University's comprehensive financial strategy by designing, implementing, and continually refining enterprise-wide financial planning processes, governance, methodologies, and analytical capabilities that support informed decision-making across all areas of the institution. Reporting to the Vice Chancellor Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer (VCFA & CFO), the AVC serves as a trusted strategic advisor to the Chancellor, Provost, and VCFA & CFO, and provides leadership in institutional financial strategy, multi-year financial planning, budget development, forecasting, financial performance management, capital and cash planning, and executive decision support. The position leads the development and continuous refinement of the University's integrated resource allocation and budget model, balancing academic priorities, enrollment, research, administrative operations, capital investment, and long-term financial sustainability through sophisticated financial modeling and scenario analysis. This leader will be responsible for strengthening institutional financial transparency, enhancing executive-level financial communications, improving forecasting and reporting capabilities, and building organizational capacity across the FP&A function. The AVC builds and leads a high-performing FP&A unit that serves as a strategic business partner to executive leadership, academic leadership, central finance, and administrative units to support sustainable financial planning, strategic resource allocation, operational effectiveness, resource utilization, and long-term institutional priorities. This role requires a highly collaborative leader with demonstrated success and a forward-thinking leader with exceptional executive communication skills, organizational leadership capabilities, expert analytics and modeling acumen, and the ability to translate complex financial information into actionable institutional strategy." That's good for About the role. Responsibilities: Could list bullet points from description: leading financial strategy, designing processes, reporting, advising, leading budget model, strengthening transparency, enhancing communications, improving forecasting, building capacity, leading FP&A unit, serving as strategic partner, etc. We'll extract. Requirements: Educational: Advanced degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training. Experience: 10-15 years related experience. Leadership level with responsibility for FP&A. Previous supervisory/managerial experience. Experience within large decentralized public higher education system (preferred). Minimum Requirements list many items (expert knowledge, etc.) We'll treat those as Requirements (mandatory). We'll need to avoid duplication. Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications: maybe the "Preferred Experience" and "Preferred Qualifications" after Minimum Requirements. Also the "Preferred Qualifications Additional Information" about UC Riverside location etc. That's not qualifications but maybe we can treat as About the institution. But we should not invent. We'll keep Qualifications as the preferred qualifications: Experience within a large, decentralized public higher education system. Also maybe "Preferred Qualifications" block includes nothing else? Actually after Minimum Requirements there is "Preferred Qualifications Additional Information" then a paragraph about UC Riverside location, rankings, etc. That's not qualifications but could be considered "About the institution". Not needed. We could also treat "Preferred Qualifications" as the list after Minimum Requirements? Actually the Minimum Requirements list is long; after that there is "Preferred Qualifications Additional Information" then a paragraph about UC Riverside. No explicit list of preferred qualifications besides the earlier "Preferred Experience Experience within a large, decentralized public higher education system." So Qualifications section could contain that. Skills: we can pull many skill statements: Expert ability to effectively communicate complex findings and recommendations verbally and in writing. Expert interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively across the organization at all levels; ability to interact with a diverse population. Client services oriented; good listening, critical thinking and analytical skills. Ability to multi-task. Expertise in internal control practices. Experience in implementing controls that strengthen the control environment throughout the organization. Expert negotiation skills. Demonstrated experience developing, leading, and monitoring complex operating budgets for a large organization, preferably in higher education, government, healthcare, or another multifaceted public-sector environment. Experience leading cross-functional initiatives, managing competing priorities, and implementing process improvements in a complex organizational environment. Experience with multi-fund budgeting (state appropriations, tuition, auxiliaries, grants, capital projects, etc.) and with enterprise financial systems, data analytics, and business intelligence tools. Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to build collaborative relationships across organizational units. Expert skills in strategy development, systems planning, and change management, and ability to work effectively and sometimes persuasively with all levels within the organization. Experience conducting financial analysis, forecasting, modeling, and scenario planning to support executive decision-making and strategic resource allocation. Advanced knowledge of budget development processes, financial management principles, internal controls, and fiscal accountability practices. Experience presenting financial information and recommendations to executive leadership, governing boards, senior administrators, or other key stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to interpret financial data and translate complex analyses into clear, actionable information for diverse audiences. Expert modeling and analytical skills. Expert knowledge of complex financial policies, practices and systems; budgeting and reporting techniques; fund accounting; human resource planning; accounting and bookkeeping. We'll put those under Skills as bullet list. Pay: include salary range and expected pay scale. Schedule: none. Benefits: none. Now we need to output HTML fragment with headings

for each section present, and
  • for lists,

    for prose. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID etc. We must preserve all substantive information; not invent or summarize away detail. Must not omit any substantive info. That's a lot; we need to ensure we include all details from posting. We have a lot of detail in Minimum Requirements and Skills etc. We must include them. We'll need to decide where to place each piece. We have overlapping content: Minimum Requirements list includes many items that also appear in Skills list. To avoid duplication, we could keep them as Requirements (mandatory) and Skills as separate but ensure we don't omit any. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we must include everything. If we split, we must ensure we don't lose any. We could combine Requirements and Skills into one section? But we need to follow headings: we can have both Requirements and Skills sections, each with its own list. As long as we include all info somewhere, it's fine. Duplication is okay? The instruction says do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Duplication is not inventing; it's repeating detail, which might be okay but could be considered redundant. Safer to avoid duplication but still include all info. We'll try to allocate each piece to either Requirements or Skills without overlap. Let's parse the Minimum Requirements list (the long block after "Minimum Requirements Expert and broad knowledge..."). It includes: - Expert and broad knowledge of full range of financial policies, practices and systems. - Budgeting and reporting techniques; fund accounting; human resource planning; accounting and bookkeeping. - Expert ability to effectively communicate complex findings and recommendations verbally and in writing. - Expert interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively across the organization at all levels; ability to interact with a diverse population. - Client services oriented; good listening, critical thinking and analytical skills. - Ability to multi-task. - Expertise in internal control practices. - Experience in implementing controls that strengthen the control environment throughout the organization. - Expert negotiation skills. - Demonstrated experience developing, leading, and monitoring complex operating budgets for a large organization, preferably in higher education, government, healthcare, or another multifaceted public-sector environment. - Experience leading cross-functional initiatives, managing competing priorities, and implementing process improvements in a complex organizational environment. - Experience with multi-fund budgeting (state appropriations, tuition, auxiliaries, grants, capital projects, etc.) and with enterprise financial systems, data analytics, and business intelligence tools. - Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to build collaborative relationships across organizational units. - Expert skills in strategy development, systems planning, and change management, and ability to work effectively and sometimes persuasively with all levels within the organization. - Experience conducting financial analysis, forecasting, modeling, and scenario planning to support executive decision-making and strategic resource allocation. - Advanced knowledge of budget development processes, financial management principles, internal controls, and fiscal accountability practices. - Experience presenting financial information and recommendations to executive leadership, governing boards, senior administrators, or other key stakeholders. - Demonstrated ability to interpret financial data and translate complex analyses into clear, actionable information for diverse audiences. - Expert modeling and analytical skills. - Expert knowledge of complex financial policies, practices and systems; budgeting and reporting techniques; fund accounting; human resource planning; accounting and bookkeeping. Note some repeats: Expert knowledge of financial policies appears twice; communication skills appear multiple times. Now the "Skills" we could extract from elsewhere: maybe the earlier paragraph about role includes "exceptional executive communication skills, organizational leadership capabilities, expert analytics and modeling acumen, and the ability to translate complex financial information into actionable institutional strategy." That's similar. We could treat the Minimum Requirements as Requirements (mandatory). Then Skills could be additional skills not covered? But many overlap. To avoid duplication, we could treat the Minimum Requirements as Requirements and not create a separate Skills section, or we could treat Skills as the subset that are not in Requirements. However the instruction says we should include sections only when posting has real, specific content for it. If we omit Skills entirely, we might be missing some skill statements not captured in Requirements. But the Minimum Requirements already covers many skill statements. Are there any skill statements not in Minimum Requirements? Let's scan the posting for other skill-related phrases not in that list. From the About the role paragraph: "highly collaborative leader with demonstrated success and a forward-thinking leader with exceptional executive communication skills, organizational leadership capabilities, expert analytics and modeling acumen, and the ability to translate complex financial information into actionable institutional strategy." Those are covered: communication skills, organizational leadership capabilities (maybe similar to interpersonal skills), expert analytics and modeling acumen (covered), ability to translate complex financial information (covered). So covered. From Responsibilities: maybe not new skills. From Preferred Qualifications: "Experience within a large, decentralized public higher education system." That's experience, not skill. Thus we could omit Skills section and just have Requirements covering all skill-like items. However the instruction expects we may have Skills section if there is content. But we can decide not to include Skills if we think it's redundant. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine into Requirements and not have Skills. That seems acceptable. Now we need to include Responsibilities section. Let's extract responsibilities from the description. Responsibilities bullet points: - Leading the University's comprehensive financial strategy by designing, implementing, and continually refining enterprise-wide financial planning processes, governance, methodologies, and analytical capabilities. - Serving as

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