Description:
Summary of Key Responsibilities (job functions include but are not limited to):
- Gain an understanding of multiple complex areas in a relatively short period to collect, analyze and organize information, establish facts and make pragmatic, value-added recommendations.
- Provide strategic decision support for Senior Leadership teams, ensuring leadership is apprised of all critical budgetary and financial issues, treating all matters with professionalism, sensitivity and confidentiality.
- Lead the comprehensive annual planning and budget preparation process for assigned portfolios and review to ensure alignment and integration with the university's overall strategy and plans (e.g. Business Plan, Research Plan, Academic Plan, Enrollment Plan, etc.).
- Lead the forecasting and planning process, including monthly budget-to-actual variance analysis and forecast.
- Lead all monthly / quarterly / year-end financial activities within the Faculty / Unit in accordance with the institutions policies and procedures.
- Work in partnership with stakeholders to continuously seek to improve financial processes and procedures within the Faculty / Unit by working with the financial process stream owners.
- Develop proposals and business cases as required for new initiatives, and continuously review existing activities for process improvement and sustainability.
- Provide a wide variety of ad hoc reporting and financial analysis to enable timely and effective decision making.
- Serve as a conduit to share Faculty / Unit perspectives and ideas to integrate into institutional level planning, policy and procedure development.
- Successful and timely completion of special assignments and projects that have institutional-wide impacts, including assessing, testing, key performance indicators, reporting, recommending, evaluation and feedback assessment (i.e. tuition allocation methodologies).
- Stay current on trends and approaches to financial management and processes through continued professional development.
- Understands and complies with the requirements of the University's Occupational Health and Safety Policy.