It’s a great time to join Marymount University!  We are looking for faculty and staff who are passionate about providing excellent service to ensure a high quality student experience and collaborative working environment. 

The University Budget Director is a senior leader of the University reporting directly to the Associate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The Director oversees and manages all aspects of budget development, management, and reporting, as well as financial forecasting, planning, and analysis, to ensure the efficient and effective stewardship of Marymount's financial resources.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversees management and development of university multi-year all fund budgets and supporting operations, including the enhancement of budgeting and position management software systems, to both improve and simplify the budget development and management processes.

• Provide timely, accurate and informative periodic budget vs actual status reports to executive leadership and departmental managers, highlighting areas requiring action 

• Supports implementation of Adaptive Planning, ensuring appropriate stakeholder adoption and post production support

• Leads the development and adoption of complex financial models in support of strategic initiatives and advises the CFO and Vice President/Treasurer regarding the efficient and effective deployment of resources to ensure that financial resources are effectively stewarded.

• Organize and prepare informative and persuasive presentations and analyses for executive leadership, departmental leaders, and cost center managers as needed

• Ensures the effective stewardship of institutional resources by developing accurate financial projections and monitoring financial results and financial outcomes on critical projects and strategic initiatives throughout the fiscal year.

• Provides outreach and support to all levels of administrative staff and divisional leadership on development of budgets, financial plans and analyses. 

• Develops and communicates efficient and transparent financial business processes that address departmental needs while also supporting the overall goals and priorities of the University.

• Required to uphold University integrity and ethical standards, policies and procedures.

• Serves as a process improvement sponsor as necessary and appropriate and enhances and develops effective and efficient business processes.

• Required to maintain University communications standard of respectful, professional and service-oriented written and verbal exchanges in all interactions, at all times.

• Required to work with confidential material and sensitive matters with integrity, diplomacy and discretion.

• Able to work independently on special projects as assigned and perform other duties as assigned.

• Other duties as required.

Requirements:

Qualifications Required at Hire 

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field, preferably accounting, finance or business.

• Experience with enterprise resource management systems

• Minimum of 5-7 years of progressively responsible budget and financial analysis oversight and management at a complex organization

• Demonstrated project management and problem solving skills.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively convey complex data to a wide array of audiences in a persuasive and relatable manner.

• Ability to work independently on a variety of tasks simultaneously, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Leadership experience in higher education

• Experience with Workday Finance and/or Adaptive Planning

• Experience in implementing and integrating budget or planning software programs.

Licenses or Certifications:  None

Financial Responsibility:  None directly, but the University will rely on information prepared by the incumbent in making key strategic and financial decisions.

Special Knowledge

Working knowledge of Workday Finance and Workday Adaptive Planning strongly preferred.  

Data visualization software experience such as Tableau is preferred.

Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office is required.

Writing persuasive analytical and technical reports for a broad array of audiences is required.

SPECIAL WORKING CONDITIONS 

• None

Marymount provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. 

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.