University of California Irvine

DFA DIRECTOR OF FINANCE


Updated: May 12, 2021
Location: UC Irvine Campus
Job Type:
Department: DFA Vice Chancellors Office

Job Opening ID: 18432

Reports To: Special Assistant to the CFO

Working Title: DFA Director of Finance

Department: DFA Vice Chancellors Office

Bargaining Unit: 99

FLSA: Exempt

Payroll Job Code: 000213

Job Location: UCI Campus- Irvine

Percent of Time: 100%

Work Schedule: 8-5, M-F

Employee Class: Career

Position Summary:

The Division of Finance and Administration (DFA) provides services and support to over 50,000 students, faculty, and staff with the mission of advancing UCI's brilliant future and the vision of becoming world-class campus partners. DFA serves the university as planning partners, problem solvers, and solution providers—striving to make it as easy as possible for people to get the services they need, when they need them. The Vice Chancellors Office is proud to support the campus community and the University of California as a whole. DFA is focused on continuous improvement in delivering excellent and ever more efficient service to our clients. Our goal is to make a significant increase in quality and productivity across campus. Through campus wide collaboration, we continuously focus on maintaining a safe and attractive environment for students, faculty, staff, and visitors; ensuring buildings and other infrastructure perform efficiently and are well maintained; and providing professional services in the areas of accounting, purchasing, risk management, safety, and transportation.

Manage the operations of the central accounting and finance functions of the Division, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, general accounting, budgeting, capital projects, and restricted programs, ensuring accounting records are maintained in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Establishes operational objectives and work plans, and delegates assignments to subordinate managers. Objectives are reviewed by senior management to determine success of operation. Manages, prepares, administers, and directs control of budget/organizational resources. Manages the activities of the financial analyst staff. Reviews and approves recommendations for financial planning and control. Directs activities that ensure division and department adherence to approved budget. Involved in developing, modifying, and executing policies that affect immediate operation(s) and may also have organization-wide effect. Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve goals results in additional costs and personnel, and serious delays in overall schedules.

Compensation Range:

Annually: $150,000.00 -$170,000.00

Department Website:

https://www.fa.uci.edu

Required:

A minimum of ten years of increasingly responsible professional-level financial accounting and budgeting experience in a governmental accounting organization (city, county, special district), including experience preparing and maintaining financial and accounting records and comprehensive financial reports, performing complex financial analyses, and conducting financial forecasting and projections. Five years of the aforementioned experience must have been in a supervisory capacity.

Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience.

Strong ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing.

Ability to evaluate processes to establish and maintain appropriate accountability structures and strong internal control elements.

Ability to multi-task. Extensive knowledge of financial policies, practices, and systems; budgeting and reporting techniques; fund accounting; human resource planning; accounting and bookkeeping.

Skills include sophisticated service orientation, strong management skills, leadership skills, sound judgment and decision-making, critical thinking, creative problem solving, and effective verbal and written communication skills.

Excellent skills in use of spreadsheet and database software.

Demonstrated negotiation skills.

Thorough knowledge of finance, accounting, business and systems operations and regulatory compliance requirements. Fund/governmental accounting experience.

Demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively across the organization at all levels; ability to interact with diverse populations.

Thorough knowledge of Government Accounting Principles.

Client services oriented, good listening, critical thinking, and analytical skills.

Ability to evaluate processes to establish and maintain strong internal control elements and appropriate accountability structures.

Preferred:

Advanced degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training.

CPA or CPFO

Special Conditions Required:

Must have valid California Driver's License and participate in DMV Pull Notice Program. May be required to work outside of regularly scheduled work hours, including holidays.

Final candidate subject to background check. As a federal contractor, UC Irvine is required to use E-Verify to confirm the work status of individuals assigned to perform substantial work under certain federal contracts/subcontracts.

The University of California, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy.

UCI provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities upon request. For more information, please contact Human Resources at (949) 824-0500.


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