Assistant Provost for Budget and Finance
- Employer
- University of the Pacific
- Location
- Stockton
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- Administrative Jobs
- Institutional & Business Affairs, Business & Financial Management, Institutional Research & Planning
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Work performed during standard business hours.
Position End DateOpen Date05/15/2019Close DateOpen Until FilledYesSpecial Instructions to ApplicantsFor first consideration please apply before June 12, 2019.
Position Summary Information Primary PurposeThe Assistant Provost for Budget and Finance, using a wide range of complex organizational, administrative and professional skills, is responsible for executing, analyzing, and monitoring the Academic Division’s multi-campus annual budgets. The Assistant Provost for Budget and Finance supports the Provost in directing and managing the short- and long-term critical budget priorities within the Academic Division. The Assistant Provost for Budget and Finance reports directly to the Provost and serves as a key member of the Provost’s Administrative Leadership team.
Essential Functions1. Oversees the development, analysis, and reporting of various financial data for all Academic schools and programs and the Academic Division administrative budget.
2. Responsible for overall management and control of the academic operating budgets and financial analyses throughout the fiscal year; monitoring performance activity to ensure adherence to objectives, policies and procedures established by Board of Regents, President or Provost and reporting any unanticipated problems to the Provost.
3. Directs preparation of internal academic budgetary and fiscal reports and analyses. Oversees the development, analysis, and reporting of various financial data for all Academic schools and programs.
4. Reviews and approves various budget transactions within University guidelines.
5. Develops, improves, and oversees maintenance and implementation of academic budget policy and procedure guidelines.
6. Provides key recommendations to Academic leadership regarding financial impact of new programs as well as changes in existing programs.
7. Prepares and delivers various written and oral reports and presentations pertaining to budgetary and fiscal matters.
8. Serves as an expert resource to Academic administrators, Deans, faculty, and staff regarding budget and financial matters.
9. Maintains strong customer service relationships with University-wide constituencies. Works closely and collaboratively with school/departmental budget managers, the Division of Business and Finances, the Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support, Human Resources and the Controller’s Office.
10. Serves as a key member of the budget task force charged with developing and implementing a new university budget model.
11. Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.
12. Oversight of Banner Finance access within the Academic Division, providing review of access requests and recommendations to Finance data steward.
13. Provides direct supervision and management of three (3) Academic Budget Analysts.
Minimum QualificationsEducation/Experience/Certifications:
• Master’s degree in related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of ten years of progressively responsible and successful administrative and financial leadership experience, preferably in a university or non-profit organization.
Skills/Knowledge and Expertise:
• Advanced skills and relevant experience in management and budgetary oversight; sound strategic-thinking and consulting skills toward workable finance strategies and solutions.
• Experience analyzing/preparing recommendations for senior leadership.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to communicate with diverse audiences, recognizing different learning styles and capabilities: to collaborate and communicate effectively with multiple university constituencies.
• Proven supervisory skills managing or leading professional and administrative staff, including recruiting, evaluating, directing, training, setting standards, and resolving complaints.
• Positive attitude, proven ability to work successfully with diverse populations and demonstrated commitment to promote and enhance diversity and inclusion.
Education/Experience/Certifications:
• Extensive experience in higher education executive budget management, primarily in a complex, comprehensive college or university.
Skills/Knowledge and Expertise:
• Extensive knowledge of and leadership experience in complex universities and their structures, hierarchies and procedures.
• Ability to work well individually and as a member of a team.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain strict confidentiality of privileged information.
• Excellent skills to perform a wide range of duties that require tact, sensitivity, independent judgment, diplomacy, organization, flexibility, and discretion.
The physical demands described here are representative but not definitive of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Work Environment/Work Week/Travel:
Typical business office conditions. Work performed during standard business hours.
Applicants who are selected as final possible candidates must pass a criminal background check.
AA/EEO Policy StatementUniversity of the Pacific is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer dedicated to workforce diversity. In compliance with applicable law and its own policy, Pacific is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty and staff and does not discriminate in its hiring of faculty and staff, or in the provision of its employment benefits to its faculty and staff on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sex/gender, marital status, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, medical condition, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, or mental or physical disability.
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Organization
Since its founding in 1851 as California’s first chartered university, University of the Pacific has been transforming the lives of students, enhancing the vitality of its surrounding communities and bringing a pioneering spirit to how we educate and serve.
Pacific is recognized for high-quality academic programs, dedicated faculty mentors and excellent professional preparation built on a strong liberal arts foundation. The university is consistently ranked among the top national universities by U.S. News and World Report and Princeton Review.
University of the Pacific is a dynamic three-city university with campuses in Stockton, Sacramento and San Francisco. With a presence in these three very different and uniquely California cities, Pacific enjoys a truly distinctive footprint in California and the West.
Sacramento
Pacific’s beautiful, tree-lined campus in Sacramento provides a focused learning environment with ties to the power and influence of one of the nation’s most influential capital cities. Complementing the legal studies offered at the McGeorge School of Law, new academic offerings are helping address critical issues at the intersection of law, policy, business and health.
San Francisco
Pacific’s high-tech San Francisco campus is strategically situated the heart of one of the world’s most exciting cities. It is home to one of the premier dental schools in the nation, the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, as well as high-quality programs in health, technology, and arts and culture.
Stockton
Pacific’s Stockton campus in the heart of the California Delta country is renowned for its idyllic beauty, breadth of outstanding academic programs, vibrant and supportive campus life, and close, dedicated teaching relationships with students. Serving more than 5,000 students, the campus is home to the liberal arts College of the Pacific, a conservatory of music, and schools of business, education, engineering, international studies, and pharmacy and health sciences.
Beyond Our Gates
Pacific students, faculty, and staff are passionate about enriching their communities and serving those in need. Under faculty guidance, students provide dental care and health services and information to the underserved, legal clinics for those in need, and literacy and educational enrichment programs for local schoolchildren. Students, faculty and staff contribute tens of thousands of hours of volunteer service each year. The Center for Professional and Continuing Education offers degree completion, continuing education, workforce training and lifelong learning programs. Pacific centers and institutes work toward solutions to local and regional issues through community partnerships, education and research.
The Pacific Tigers compete in NCAA Division I athletics primarily as a member of the West Coast Conference. Fielding seven men’s teams and eleven women’s teams, the Pacific Tigers continue to add individual and team successes to an already outstanding performance record, including more than 30 conference championships and more than 60 NCAA tournament appearances.
Pacific offers more than 80 programs of study leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees, as well as accelerated programs in business, education, law, engineering and the health sciences. Total enrollment at all three campuses is more than 6,000 students.
With a focus on teaching, close faculty-student interaction, academic excellence and real-world learning, Pacific prepares individuals for lifelong personal and professional success.
Learn more at Pacific.edu.
Diversity Profile
The University of the Pacific community - including students, faculty, staff, administrators, and alumni - believes that diversity and inclusion are essential to the fulfillment of our institutional mission. We value inclusiveness in learning, curricular and co-curricular programming, campus climate, recruitment, admissions, hiring and retention. We remain deeply committed to promoting and maintaining a civil community that facilitates opportunities for shared understanding and expression of individual and collective truths. Moreover, we resolve to maintain a community that is respectful of all persons despite differences in age, citizenship, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, geographic origin, language, marital status, nationality, philosophical beliefs, race, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.
The University of the Pacific community - including students, faculty, staff, administrators, and alumni - believes that diversity and inclusion are essential to the fulfillment of our institutional mission. We value inclusiveness in learning, curricular and co-curricular programming, campus climate, recruitment, admissions, hiring and retention.
We remain deeply committed to promoting and maintaining a civil community that facilitates opportunities for shared understanding and expression of individual and collective truths. Moreover, we resolve to maintain a community that is respectful of all persons despite differences in age, citizenship, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, geographic origin, language, marital status, nationality, philosophical beliefs, race, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.
We are committed to all members of the Pacific community becoming competent and ethical citizen leaders able to interact effectively and ethically in an increasingly multicultural society and global economy. This transformative process is accomplished through our distinctive integration of liberal arts and professional education promoting innovation, open discourse and dialogue, leadership development, experiential learning and self-reflection.
Multicultural Affairs is dedicated to the creation and sustainability of a culturally inclusive community across and within the boundaries of culture, sexual orientation, gender, and other social identities. In service to and in partnership with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other friends, Multicultural Affairs offers programs, services, and sponsorships such as cultural heritage month observances, diversity leadership retreats, and intercultural trainings that meet the educational and cultural needs of all members of the Pacific community.
- Website
- http://www.pacific.edu/
- Telephone
- 209.946.2011
- Location
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3601 Pacific Avenue
Stockton
CA
95211
US
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