Director of Finance & Accounting, College of Nursing

About the role

The position is intended to be eligible for benefits. This includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

Responsibilities

• Develop, establish, and enforce policies and procedures to manage financial operations across the College of Nursing.
• Ensure the proper operational controls, administration and reporting procedures, and resource allocation systems are in place to operate most effectively and position the College for financial sustainability.
• Direct the College’s annual budget process.
• Implement planning parameters, prepare annual budgets for all units, and monitor performance to those budgets.
• Forecast annual revenues from all sources (e.g., tuition from education programs, ICR from research programs, patient care revenue from clinical operations, self-supporting activities) and advise the Associate Dean for Administration and College-leadership with short-term and long-term fiscal planning.
• Create and develop financial proforma templates, budgets, and cost analyses for new academic programs, clinical practice initiatives, self-supporting and revenue generating activities.
• Analyze expenditures and budget variances and initiate corrective action plans when applicable.
• Provide high level oversight for transactions flowing through individual departments and campuses.
• Provide financial guidance and support to internal units and serve as the primary liaison to the University's central business offices on financial operations matters.

Requirements

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in business administration, healthcare administration, or related field.
• A minimum of 5 years work experience in a financial leadership role.

Preferred Qualifications

• A master’s degree in business.
• Work experience in higher education finance role.
• Familiarity with enterprise administrative system.

Skills and Abilities

• Broad and deep knowledge of University and State rules and regulations regarding procurement, payments, etc. and College and Campus policies and procedures.
• Ability to provide consistently high levels of customer service to a diverse client base.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other team members.
• Well-developed managerial, decision-making, planning, organizational, problem-resolution and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage people on a day-to-day basis and inspire a high level of commitment and performance.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to adapt communication style to address the needs of individuals at all levels throughout the University.
• Ability to negotiate skillfully with both internal and external constituents, to anticipate changes in the business environment, and to proactively lead change.
• A deep understanding of internal control concepts and the implementation of internal control systems in a complex business environment.
• Strong conceptual, analytical, and business process skills.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve conflicts, remove obstacles, and escalate issues in a timely, appropriate manner in a complex matrix environment.
• Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment involving complex tasks with appreciable latitude for action or decision-making.