University of Maryland · 6 hours ago
Finance Manager
College Park, MD
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$85K/yr - $90K/yr
3+ years expThe University of Maryland is seeking a Finance Manager to oversee the financial functions of the College of Information Studies. The role involves managing financial transactions, supervising staff, and ensuring compliance with university policies while providing financial oversight and support for budgeting and reporting activities.
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Responsibilities
Manage Finance Unit Operations – 30%
Support Director and Assistant Director in managing and overseeing the College’s non-sponsored accounts, including developing budgets, tracking expenditures and creating and maintaining forecasting reports to ensure that resources are well managed, accurately reported and comply with University of Maryland policies and procedures
Lead data inquiries within the finance unit, identifying and extracting relevant data from appropriate sources, and present the analyzed and refined data to leadership for informed decision-making
Perform data mining, curation, and analysis to support financial planning and decision-making
Manage the College’s Research Participant Payments (RPP) process, including oversight of the TANGO account tracking spreadsheet and coordination of reimbursements from sponsored accounts
Process day-to-day transactions and respond to inquiries in the areas of purchasing, travel, payroll, and general operations, ensuring all activities adhere to applicable policies and procedures
Develop and deliver training to staff and faculty on financial procedures and best practices
Create and maintain clear and updated documentation of financial processes, policies and procedures, both internally (finance files) and externally (College website)
Monitor effort compliance and salary support for personnel, ensuring all costing allocations are up to date and correct
Financial Oversight and Management of College Accounts – 50%
Reconcile all non-sponsored accounts monthly, providing budget reports to administrative leads and meeting with these leads to answer questions, update projections and help with funding concerns as appropriate
Process all needed cost transfers
Process fund transfers for College-level commitments, both internally and externally
Process all financial transactions using college funds; including, but not limited to, setting up of purchase orders, processing vendor payments, creating and sending invoices, processing reimbursements, procurement goods, etc
Ensure proper recording of expenses and e-filing of transaction documents for appropriate account reconciliation
Prepare all invoices and track receipt of payment
Deposit any checks that are received by the college into the appropriate account, keeping all documentation
Manage all college accounts, creating new budgets when needed, closing old accounts when appropriate and updating account tracking sheets on a minimum of a quarterly basis
Manage the College’s Procurement and Travel Card processes by reviewing all P-Card and T-Card transactions, ensuring compliance with deadlines and regulations, and maintaining accurate and complete documentation
College Gift & Foundation Account Management – 20%
Manage the reimbursement process for all college gift and foundation accounts; maintaining a tracking sheet of expenditures, amounts and accounts to be reimbursed, following the process from expense incurred through receipt of reimbursement on a monthly basis
Maintain tracking and reporting of all college gift and foundation accounts, including current balances and expenditures on a quarterly basis
Work with the Awards Committee on what active accounts they have to fund, the purpose of the funding, the current balance and ensuring awards/scholarships etc. are paid out to the selected individuals timely and appropriately, keeping detailed records of the entire process
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
Three (3) years of professional finance or accounting experience
One (1) year leading or supervising professional staff
Knowledge of finance and accounting policies and procedures, and federal, state, and other applicable related laws, rules, regulations, and ordinances
Skill in oral and written communication
Skill in the use of Microsoft Office products
Ability to multi-task and prioritize assignments
Ability to acquire, apply and expand knowledge of the University's policies
Company
University of Maryland
The University of Maryland is a public research university and is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (6)
2024 (11)
2023 (8)
2022 (7)
2021 (10)
2020 (7)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$219.39MKey Investors
US Department of EnergyMaryland Stem Cell Research Fund (MSCRF)ARPA-E
2023-07-27Grant
2023-05-11Grant
2023-05-09Grant· $3.48M
Leadership Team
Joe LaBue
Deputy Athletic Director | Chief Revenue Officer
Kan Cao
Professor and Associate Chair
Recent News
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