Director of Capital Finance and Treasurer

Responsibilities

• Campus-wide cash management
• Maintains and communicates appropriate metrics and dashboards.
• Maintains key account contacts at financial partners.
• Monitors and analyzes bank accounts' activity and balances.
• Prepares cash forecasts for liquidity management and investment purposes.
• Maintains active communication with division finance leads across campus to coordinate and assist in related initiatives.
• Bank and related financial partners relationships
• Maintains key account contacts at the partners.
• Meets with the partners regularly to seek updates on relevant market and economic developments, new products and services, and peer benchmarking.
• Inter-campus liquidity management and financing
• Maintains active communication with division finance leads across campus to coordinate and assist in related initiatives.
• Capital finance
• Creates and maintains financial standards that guide project specific financial decision making.
• Acts as a resource for the financial feasibility review for major capital projects undertaken by campus.
• Evaluates and recommends capital funding strategies including cash, debt, and public private partnerships.
• Capital investment strategy
• Develops, modifies, and executes appropriate internal controls to protect University resources.
• Evaluates new campus capital investments, including new construction, capital renewal, real estate acquisition, and technology.
• Develops, executes on the 10-year capital plan.
• Investment management
• Recommends to the senior team and executes investment decisions and reporting.
• Develops the investment policy and monitors compliance.
• Maintains a regular contact with the UC investment team to ensure alignment between the UC Berkeley investment strategy and the UC’s objectives.
• Debt portfolio management
• Partners with the Office of the President to oversee the campus’s debt portfolio.
• Maintains the debt model and performs due diligence activities regarding the issuance of new debt and refinancing of existing debt.
• Maintains compliance required for the Berkeley’s tax-exempt bonds.
• Develops and implements financing strategies for capital projects or University projects and initiatives that benefit from a debt or financing strategy.
• Continuously models debt capacity to provide the VC CFO with options regarding prospective utilization of debt in furtherance of the University’s mission and strategic goals.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge and experience in financial management, reporting and analysis, cash management and forecasting techniques, budgeting and capital allocation, characteristics of investment instruments for liquidity management and for long-term risk-adjusted return, public and private markets dynamics, and macroeconomics.
• Strong ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing; effective listening & communication skills to lead sustained change with diverse audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills and collaboration ability to work effectively across the organization at all levels; ability to interact with diverse populations.
• Ability to multi-task and manage time well and deliver results with limited supervision.
• Ability to evaluate processes to establish and maintain appropriate accountability structures and strong internal control elements.
• Ability to analyze and navigate complexity, advise executives, problem solve, make sound decisions, and lead change.
• Strong people leadership skills to assess, coach, mentor, and develop others.
• The curiosity to stay current with market and financial innovation, eagerness to explore and test new opportunities within the organization’s approved key policies and goals.
• Willingness to explore professional development and adopt new solutions and technologies.