AVP, Financial Planning & Analysis

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove "Application Materials Should Include ..."? That's application instructions, should be removed. Also remove "Working Conditions", "Statement on Our Mission", "About Merrimack College", "Merrimack College is an Equal Opportunity Employer." Also remove "Initial Priorities" maybe part of responsibilities? Could be included under Responsibilities? The posting includes "Initial Priorities" bullet list; we can treat as part of Responsibilities. Also "Leadership Profile" maybe part of Requirements? Could be included under Qualifications or Skills. We need to preserve all substantive information. We need to decide sections: About the role (summary paragraph). Responsibilities (list). Requirements (maybe required qualifications). Qualifications (maybe preferred qualifications). Skills (maybe tools). Benefits, Pay, Schedule: posting does not mention benefits, pay, schedule explicitly. It mentions "Working Conditions: This is an on-campus position". That's schedule? Not exactly pay/benefits. There's no explicit benefits, pay, schedule. So we should NOT include those sections because they'd be empty or placeholder. So only include sections with content: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to use

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  for prose. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include details from the posting. Let's extract: About the role: The first paragraph(s) describing opportunity: "PCN 2063 The Opportunity Merrimack College seeks a strategic, analytical, entrepreneurial, and technology-forward Associate Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis (AVP, FP&A). Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, the AVP will lead enterprise analysis of revenue, costs, operating performance, and strategic investments—helping Merrimack accelerate sustainable growth, improve contribution margins, and strengthen financial accountability. The AVP will work alongside the Vice President, Financial Planning and Chief Budget Officer, who leads institutional budgeting, the hybrid responsibility-centered management model, and long-range financial planning, and in close partnership with the AVP for Finance/Controller. This highly visible leader will provide forecasts, models, dashboards, and AI-enabled decision support that connect strategy, resource allocation, and operating results. Serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO and senior leadership, translating analysis into recommendations on growth, resource allocation, investment priorities, and financial risk." We can put that as

  under About the role. Responsibilities: list bullet points from "Key Responsibilities" and "Initial Priorities". Also maybe "Performance management", "AI-enabled finance and analytics". Let's capture all. Key Responsibilities bullet points: - Revenue growth and revenue-center analysis. Analyze undergraduate and graduate net tuition, financial aid, retention, research and sponsored programs, auxiliary operations, partnerships, and new ventures. Identify opportunities to increase sustainable net revenue and reduce revenue risk. - Cost management and containment. Create transparent cost-center reporting, identify cost drivers, and develop actionable savings and productivity initiatives involving workforce, procurement, vendors, processes, technology, facilities, and shared services. - Program economics and investment discipline. Develop contribution-margin, unit-cost, capacity, and portfolio analyses and evaluate strategic initiatives using market, revenue, cost, risk, break-even, payback, and return-on-investment measures. - Forecasting and scenario planning. Build driver-based forecasts and sensitivity analyses for enrollment, net tuition revenue, compensation, benefits, auxiliaries, research, and major operating expenses, and make recommendations on emerging financial risks & opportunities. - Budget and hybrid RCM support. Provide the Chief Budget Officer with analytical models, forecasts, performance metrics, and recommendations that strengthen institutional budgeting, accountability, and the College’s hybrid RCM framework. - Performance management. Deliver executive dashboards, variance analyses, and operating reviews that explain what changed, why it changed, and what actions are required. - AI-enabled finance and analytics. Lead responsible use of predictive analytics, generative AI, automation, anomaly detection, and business intelligence with strong standards for data quality, validation, explainability, privacy, security, and human review. Initial Priorities: - Establish standardized revenue-center and cost-center dashboards and operating reviews. - Build an integrated enrollment, financial-aid, and net tuition revenue forecasting model. - Develop a College-wide cost-containment and productivity pipeline with accountable owners and measurable results. - Implement a practical roadmap and governance framework for AI-enabled FP&A and reporting. We can combine these as list items under Responsibilities. Requirements: Required Qualifications bullet list: - Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business administration, data analytics, or a related field. - At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in FP&A, strategic finance, corporate finance, management consulting, higher education finance, or a related discipline. - Demonstrated success in revenue analysis, cost analysis, financial modeling, forecasting, scenario planning, performance reporting, and business-case development. - Experience partnering with senior executives and operating leaders in a complex, fast-moving, matrixed organization. - Advanced proficiency with ERP, planning and forecasting, business-intelligence, data-visualization, and financial-modeling tools, including experience applying AI or advanced analytics to decision support. - Exceptional communication, judgment, integrity, collaboration, and change-leadership skills. - Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including financial modeling, forecasting, scenario analysis, and data reconciliation. - Experience with enterprise financial and ERP systems; Jenzabar One or a comparable higher-education system preferred. - Proficiency with business-intelligence and data-visualization tools, such as Microsoft Power BI or Tableau. - Ability to integrate and analyze financial, enrollment, payroll, human-resources, and operational data. - Familiarity with SQL, database querying, and budgeting or enterprise-performance-management platforms preferred. Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications bullet list: - Master’s degree in business administration, finance, accounting, analytics, or a related field; CPA, CFA, CMA, or another relevant credential. - Financial leadership experience in higher education or another complex, mission-driven, multi-unit organization. - Experience with responsibility-centered management, academic program economics, unit costing, or activity-based costing. - Experience implementing or enhancing enterprise planning, data-warehouse, business-intelligence, or AI-enabled finance capabilities. Skills: Could be derived from Leadership Profile and maybe other skill mentions not captured elsewhere. Leadership Profile: "The successful candidate will be strategically minded, analytically rigorous, entrepreneurial, and able to constructively challenge assumptions. The AVP will translate complex information into practical decisions, build trust across the College, and balance growth, affordability, academic quality, student success, and long-term financial sustainability." Also maybe "Exceptional communication, judgment, integrity, collaboration, and change-leadership skills." Already in Required Qualifications. But we can still list skills separately: strategic thinking, analytical rigor, entrepreneurial mindset, ability to challenge assumptions, translating complex info into practical decisions, building trust, balancing growth/affordability/academic quality/student success/financial sustainability. We could also include "AI-enabled finance and analytics" but that's in responsibilities. We need to avoid duplication? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Duplication is okay if it's in the original; but we should not repeat same content unnecessarily? It didn't forbid duplication, but we should aim to not repeat. However we can split into sections: Required Qualifications (hard qualifications), Preferred Qualifications (extra), Skills (soft skills/leadership). Ensure we don't miss any. Let's craft HTML:

  About the role

  ... (the paragraph)

  Responsibilities

  • Revenue growth and revenue-center analysis. Analyze undergraduate and graduate net tuition, financial aid, retention, research and sponsored programs, auxiliary operations, partnerships, and new ventures. Identify opportunities to increase sustainable net revenue and reduce revenue risk.
  • Cost management and containment. Create transparent cost-center reporting, identify cost drivers, and develop actionable savings and productivity initiatives involving workforce, procurement, vendors, processes, technology, facilities, and shared services.
  • Program economics and investment discipline. Develop contribution-margin, unit-cost, capacity, and portfolio analyses and evaluate strategic initiatives using market, revenue, cost, risk, break-even, payback, and return-on-investment measures.
  • Forecasting and scenario planning. Build driver-based forecasts and sensitivity analyses for enrollment, net tuition revenue, compensation, benefits, auxiliaries, research, and major operating expenses, and make recommendations on emerging financial risks & opportunities.
  • Budget and hybrid RCM support. Provide the Chief Budget Officer with analytical models, forecasts, performance metrics, and recommendations that strengthen institutional budgeting, accountability, and the College’s hybrid RCM framework.
  • Performance management. Deliver executive dashboards, variance analyses, and operating reviews that explain what changed, why it changed, and what actions are required.
  • AI-enabled finance and analytics. Lead responsible use of predictive analytics, generative AI, automation, anomaly detection, and business intelligence with strong standards for data quality, validation, explainability, privacy, security, and human review.
  • Initial Priorities: Establish standardized revenue-center and cost-center dashboards and operating reviews.
  • Initial Priorities: Build an integrated enrollment, financial-aid, and net tuition revenue forecasting model.
  • Initial Priorities: Develop a College-wide cost-containment and productivity pipeline with accountable owners and measurable results.
  • Initial Priorities: Implement a practical roadmap and governance framework for AI-enabled FP&A and reporting.
  But note we repeated "Initial Priorities:" as text inside li; maybe better to just list them as separate items without prefix. Could incorporate as separate bullet points. We need to ensure we don't lose any detail. The initial priorities are four items; we can list them as separate li. Thus:
  • Revenue growth and revenue-center analysis. Analyze undergraduate and graduate net tuition, financial aid, retention, research and sponsored programs, auxiliary operations, partnerships, and new ventures. Identify opportunities to increase sustainable net revenue and reduce revenue risk.
  • Cost management and containment. Create transparent cost-center reporting, identify cost drivers, and develop actionable savings and productivity initiatives involving workforce, procurement, vendors, processes, technology, facilities, and shared services.
  • Program economics and investment discipline. Develop contribution-margin, unit-cost, capacity, and portfolio analyses and evaluate strategic initiatives using market, revenue, cost, risk, break-even, payback, and return-on-investment measures.
  • Forecasting and scenario planning. Build driver-based forecasts and sensitivity analyses for enrollment, net tuition revenue, compensation, benefits, auxiliaries, research, and major operating expenses, and make recommendations on emerging financial risks & opportunities.
  • Budget and hybrid RCM support. Provide the Chief Budget Officer with analytical models, forecasts, performance metrics, and recommendations that strengthen institutional budgeting, accountability, and the College’s hybrid RCM framework.
  • Performance management. Deliver executive dashboards, variance analyses, and operating reviews that explain what changed, why it changed, and what actions are required.
  • AI-enabled finance and analytics. Lead responsible use of predictive analytics, generative AI, automation, anomaly detection, and business intelligence with strong standards for data quality, validation, explainability, privacy, security, and human review.
  • Establish standardized revenue-center and cost-center dashboards and operating reviews.
  • Build an integrated enrollment, financial-aid, and net tuition revenue forecasting model.
  • Develop a College-wide cost-containment and productivity pipeline with accountable owners and measurable results.
  • Implement a practical roadmap and governance framework for AI-enabled