Associate Vice President for Financial Operations
- Employer
- University of Virginia
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Job location: Charlottesville, VA
Employment Type: Full-time
Posted data: 2019-01-18
Req: R0001741
The University of Virginia (UVA) invites nominations and applications for the position of Associate Vice President for Financial Operations (AVPFO) reporting to the Vice President for Finance. UVA has recently embarked on a journey to transform its financial operations with exceptionally performing teams, highly effective processes, and modern systems. To help lead this journey, UVA seeks a dynamic and innovative AVPFO to lead its core financial operations. Specifically, the AVPFO will
Responsibilities:
Ensure critical financial functions are carried out successfully, including but not limited to:
- Error-free payment of employee salaries, wages, and tax withholdings
- Timely and accurate interim and annual financial reporting and annual audit
- Strategic sourcing of quality goods and services at competitive prices
- Financial and tax compliance
- Highly effective internal controls, policies and procedures and financial systems
- Build and inspire a high functioning and diverse team (60+) that strives to reach University, and individual goals in an environment of mutual respect and understanding. Create and maintain a culture of change and improvement that aspires excellence.
- Where required establish, communicate, and enforce clear and consistent standards/requirements to support achievement of institutional compliance, reporting, operational, and strategic objectives.
- Provide University and school senior leadership with access to accurate and timely information for strategic decision support, as well as delegated reporting needs and responsibilities.
- With the UVAFinance leadership team, implement effective business practices and technology solutions to support financial management, data integrity, compliance, and productivity. Serve as the data steward for financial information, including the University’s chart of accounts.
- Be a voice in the national conversation on financial and accounting policies and practices to keep abreast of emerging trends and technologies and best practices of top-performing organizations.
Competencies and Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will be an accomplished leader who is forward thinking and has implemented transformative and sustained impact in complex environments. Key “Required” competencies include:
- Ascribe to highest standards of honesty, quality and integrity
- Serve as a technical expert and advisor
- Be an engaged and committed leader and community member who respects, values, and actively promotes diversity in people, opinions, experiences, and suppliers
- Develop trusted relationships, using diplomacy and conflict-resolution skills
- Think proactively and problem-solve innovatively
- Act with decisiveness and with an appropriate sense of urgency
- Listen actively, write effectively, and deliver professional presentations.
Required Qualifications Include:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Ten or more years of progressive responsibilities, including managerial responsibilities, in accounting or other financial-related fields, preferably in large decentralized environments of comparable size and complexity
- Experience interacting with external and internal auditors
- Demonstrated experience in initiating and managing change in a large and complex organization.
Preferred qualifications include:
- Advanced degree in business or related field is strongly preferred
- An active CPA, CIA, CFA, or CMA license is strongly preferred
To apply, visit https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs and search for Associate Vice President for Financial Operations. Complete a Staff Application online and attach a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three references. The position will remain open until filled.
Questions regarding the application process should be directed to Ashley Cochran, Academic Recruiter at alc6dk@virginia.edu.
Organization
In 1819, the University of Virginia established a new model for intellectual exchange and cross-disciplinary collaboration in higher education. Two hundred years later, as a major research institution, we continue to challenge conventions, lead with ingenuity and advance knowledge for the common good.
What began as an innovative idea has become one of the nation’s leading public research universities, with over 21,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UVA also has over 3,000 full-time faculty offering more than 400 degrees.
Each of the University’s eleven schools has its own distinctive mission, working together to garner consistently high rankings—including #2 Best Value Public College (Princeton Review, 2016), #3 Public University in the Nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2016), and #3 Best Value Among Public Colleges (Kiplinger’s, 2016).
As we invest in and strengthen our research capabilities, UVA seeks new faculty ready to uncover new insights, rewrite old rules and collaborate on intellectual discoveries.
RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS THAT CROSS DISCIPLINES
As an R1 institution, the University’s research centers, consortia and laboratories are on the leading edge of discovery and technology, offering collaborative spaces for students and faculty to solve global problems.
Our professors are recognized members of major national scholarly and professional organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our faculty’s engagement in interdisciplinary research is being facilitated by new research institutes specializing in everything from big data to brain functioning, and by cluster hires across schools.
NATIONALLY RANKED HEALTH SYSTEM
UVA is also home to a nationally renowned academic medical center and the UVA Health System, which serves a three-part mission to treat patients, conduct translational research and train medical practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines.
Established as the nation’s 10th medical school in 1825, the institution has since grown to include a 612-bed hospital and a Level I trauma center, nationally recognized cancer and heart centers, a Children’s Hospital, and primary and specialty clinics throughout Central Virginia.
The UVA Medical Center is consistently ranked among the nation’s best hospitals by the U.S. News & World Report magazine and has been named among the top 25 percent in seven specialties.
INSPIRING STUDENTS, INSPIRED TEACHING
The vast majority of UVA students come from the top 10% of their high school class, as well as from all 50 states, over 142 countries and a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite their diversity, all UVA students share a love of learning and a drive to achieve.
One of the reasons students choose Virginia is our unique residential culture. At UVA, the community of students, faculty and staff personifies the Jeffersonian idea that living and learning are connected. The Academical Village was constructed to support a unique residential experience, with faculty living in the Pavilions, students occupying Lawn rooms and the world-famous Rotunda at its heart. The University’s residential culture continues to support this experience today—strengthened by students, faculty and staff rich in backgrounds, ideas and perspectives. Our unique culture is also paying dividends in innovation: UVA’s faculty have generated more than 130 patents since 2010.
Perhaps most importantly, faculty come to UVA knowing that instruction is as important as research, and they pride themselves on their many teaching awards. Our best professors look for ways to encourage, mentor and develop tomorrow’s leaders inside and outside the classroom.
LIFE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
Living in Charlottesville you’ll find sophisticated restaurants, world-renowned wineries and breweries, cosmopolitan arts and music, friendly urban and suburban neighborhoods and a Piedmont landscape that has lured adventurous souls for centuries. No wonder the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research named Charlottesville the “happiest city in America” in 2014.
In addition to UVA and its health system, several major employers have facilities in Charlottesville, including State Farm, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Department of Defense, GE and others. Charlottesville is also becoming a center for innovative start-up businesses. The University also actively helps spouses and partners of faculty members build their networks and pursue employment opportunities with a wide variety of area employers.
The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, qualified individuals with disabilities are protected from discrimination and may be entitled to reasonable accommodations to assist in their pursuit of employment at the University. This includes assistance in completing the online job application as well as reasonable accommodations during the interview process. Please contact the UHR Service Center: 434.982.0123 orAskHR@virginia.edu to request assistance.
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