UAMS - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences · 2 months ago
Director of Budgeting and Financial Analysis
Little Rock
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
7+ years expThe University of Arkansas at Little Rock is a metropolitan research university that provides quality education and internship opportunities. The Director of Budgeting and Financial Analysis is responsible for managing the annual operating budget, delivering financial planning information, and providing customer service to campus departments.
EducationHealth CareNon Profit
No H1B
Responsibilities
Manage the position control process to ensure that ongoing funding is available and budgetarily linked to positions. This includes adjusting budget to include merit raises, COLA, and bonuses, approving necessary budget amendments to positions, capturing lapsed salary amounts, and maintaining budgeted positions when positions have been vacated and filled. This requires monitoring and maintaining an up-to-date position vacancy report
Maintain a balanced budget. This includes monitoring monthly reports, monitoring departmental budget amendments for compliance with university policy, approving departmental budget amendments, and entering permanent budget amendments during the year to ensure the budget more accurately reflects actual financial activity and trends
Provide leadership and customer service to campus departments to meet labor, fringe benefit, supplies and service needs of the campus. This includes providing reports and information to campus leadership, writing Budget Office memos for campus distribution, designing Adaptive Insights reports for campus use, and planning campus-wide and one-on-one budget training
Maintain budget records including electronic files of prior years' budgets, required reports, and various spreadsheets detailing health insurance trends, history of tuition, history of raises, tuition modeling, and formula funding
Support UA Little Rock's strategic planning and budget processes as assigned or in the absence of the Associate Vice Chancellor through participation on university committees
Assist in the development of training materials and the design and implementation of training programs for those involved in the budgeting process
Assist in the formulation and documentation of policies and procedures relative to the budgeting process
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in business, accounting, or finance
Minimum of seven years of professional experience in accounting or finance
Understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
Proficient in using Microsoft Office, most specifically Excel and Word
Demonstrated customer service experience
Preferred
Ellucian Banner, Workday, and/or Anaplan experience
An advanced degree in accounting, business management or related area
Experience in a university setting
Previous supervisory experience
Company
UAMS - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a northwest Arkansas regional campus; a statewide network of regional centers; and seven institutes: the Winthrop P.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$5.65MKey Investors
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesNational Cancer Institute
2023-03-16Grant· $1M
2022-08-25Grant· $3.4M
2022-06-23Grant· $1.25M
Leadership Team
Amanda George
Vice Chancellor for Finance & Chief Financial Officer
Christina Clark
Chief Operating Officer
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