University Services - Cluster 1 - Senior Finance Officer

Job Overview

The Senior Finance Officer for University Services, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, oversees the compilation, monitoring, and review of annual and intermediate budgets for the assigned University Services departments. The Senior Finance Officer will review departmental expenditures to ensure compliance with budget allocations and identify variances against budget plans. This role should establish and guide measures for budgetary control, ensure longer-term functional objectives translate into established processes to maximize efficacy and efficiency. The Senior Finance Officer supports specialized organizations that are revenue generating, high profile facing units, and/or larger organizations with significant size and scope.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting, including development of five-year financial plans
• Managing financial reporting and analysis
• Analyzing financial reports, monitoring transactions and overseeing budget allocation for business operations
• Analyzing budgets and financial data and relaying fiscal information relevant to stakeholders, including but not limited to: trend analysis, variances from budget/projection, and year-to-date results
• Preparing recommendations and analytical presentations related to budgets, financial plans, statistical reports, business forecasts, and internal policies
• Identifying problems and specific issues in a budget particular area, advising leadership from compiled data and recommending solutions or alternatives

Work Interactions

The Senior Finance Officer reports to the Associate Vice President of Finance, University Services. The Senior Finance Officer oversees all planning and execution activities for the assigned units, and is primarily focused on planning and escalation of issues within their assigned cluster. The Senior Finance Officer will supervise work for the Senior Analyst, Budget & Planning, and Planning and Budget Analysts within their cluster. This role will focus on planning and analysis, internal controls, and approvals of critical operational activities to ensure congruence with budget and projections.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in accounting or finance; Master's Degree or higher in Business or Finance preferred
• Professional Accounting qualifications desirable
• 10+ years of progressive experience in financial and budgetary management
• Building and utilizing financial models; business analytics expertise
• Proficiency with complex financial and longitudinal planning, financial forecasting, and revenue and expenditure management
• Expert level of proficiency with Excel
• Prior experience establishing and managing budgets of at least $50M and up to $100M
• Prior experience managing complex teams
• Strong communications and customer service skills
• Ability to engage regularly with internal and external stakeholders, including unit leads and administrators across the institution
• Ability to engage in an efficient and professional manner
• Strong organizational and time management skills; proficiency managing and prioritizing multiple tasks
• Ability to work with variety of financial systems, with prior experience preferred in Workday, Adaptive

Pay

$103,723.00 - $202,778.93

Schedule

Hybrid

Benefits

Georgetown University offers a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that includes medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, retirement savings, tuition assistance, work-life balance benefits, employee discounts and an array of voluntary insurance options.