Manager, Student Affairs Administration and Finance

Job Summary

Towson University (TU) is one of the nation's top 100 public universities. Located north of Baltimore, TU currently enrolls over 19,000 students and is the second-largest university in the prestigious University System of Maryland. Towson University values diversity and fosters a climate that is grounded in respect and inclusion to cultivate the intellectual and personal growth of the entire university community.

Reporting to the Senior Vice President for Student Affairs and University Life, the Manager for Student Affairs Administration and Finance is responsible for a broad range of budget, finance, human resource, and administrative responsibilities for the Division of Student Affairs. Responsible for the oversight of the division's fiscal operations and overall administrative functions. Serves as a key strategic advisor for business operations, human resource and financial matters, supports divisional leadership in forecasting and planning and advises on compliance with university policies including those related to procurement, human resources, accounting, finance, and record keeping. This position serves as the division's liaison with other central University offices responsible for financial/administration, human resource, and technology matters.

Responsibilities and Duties

Financial Planning, Analysis, Management and Reporting:

• Budget Development and Financial Management - develops the annual divisional budget for the state, self-support, and auxiliary funding sources; manages budget allocations and resource distribution; and financial forecasting. Monitors budgets, identify errors and/or discrepancies and communicates information to departments.
• Strategic Planning and Analysis - assists divisional leadership and staff in the assessment and development of revenues and expenditures, creates financial models and methods to support the division in budget and financial management; advises divisional leadership on the availability of funds to support the university's and division's strategic plans. Represents division on the planning committees.
• Variance and Compliance Reporting - timely variance reporting on all funding sources along with the ability to provide insights.
• The Student Affairs budget currently just under $80 million.

Business Operations:

• Serves as the primary authoritative resources for the division on routine operational matters, policies, and procedures related to business operations in compliance with federal, state, system and university policies and procedures; communicates appropriate process and policy changes to the division and creates or modifies processes to maintain efficiency, effectiveness, and compliance; supports personnel on procedural guidance to facilitate timely and effective use of resources; solves problems as needed for efficient and effective operations; coordinates between the division and central offices as needed; recommends, documents, and facilitates implementation of divisional process improvements.

Workforce Management:

• Initiates regular collaboration with the Office of Human Resources and the University Budget Office to support workforce management and the associated compliance requirements (e.g. compensation reviews, performance management processes, position action forms, position descriptions); assists divisional hiring authorities and committees in search and hiring practices including the efficient and effective use of Taleo when establishing employment requisitions, recruitment postings, and search committees; facilitates effective on-boarding and job orientation for leadership positions to division and university policies, procedures and processes; manages positions and advising on all position related matters for accuracy and funding availability.

Managerial / Supervisory:

• Provides oversight and leadership to operational activities of shared resources on day-to-day operational activities that include: procurement (i.e. purchase requisitions, procurement card), accounts payable, accounting, travel, contingent contracts; preparing annual performance reviews and goal setting.

Oversight of divisional technology issues including supervision of the Divisional IT Coordinator, represents the Division of Student Affairs in enterprise initiatives, and serves as divisional information security liaison.

Telework may be available for this position up to two days per week following the completion of 90 days of service in good standing.

Qualifications and Skills

Required:

• Bachelors Degree in Business Management, Finance, Accounting or related field.
• Seven years of progressively responsible experience working with budgets, financial modeling, workforce / position management, operational management, strategic planning and forecasting and senior level reporting.
• Three years of supervisory experience.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage budgets and adapt to changes in resources.
• Strong leadership, supervisory, and consensus-building skills.
• Ability and experience to identify training and development needs, evaluate workloads and resources.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills with peers throughout the organization; strong service orientation and critical thinking skills; and attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including tact, diplomacy, discretion, and flexibility with diverse backgrounds.
• Demonstrated ability to independently gather required information to organize, and perform financial analysis assignments.
• Ability to collect and analyze data, investigate, comprehend and compile financial, budgetary and program data interpreting policies and procedures and apply them to routine/complex/unique situations.
• Ability to organize and prioritize reports, daily operations, short and long-term projects, and to direct and ensure timeliness and accuracy in the work of others.
• Flexible to a changing and dynamic work environment.
• Aiming to provide high level of customer service, transparency of data, and regular communication to divisional leadership and University partners.
• Demonstrates skills in organizational evaluation with an eye for increasing effectiveness & efficiencies (E&E) for operational improvements.

Preferred:

• Experience in Higher Education Budgeting.
• Experience with Cloud based financial software.

Salary and Benefits

Targeted Hiring Range is $125,000-$135,000 and full University benefits that include 22 days of annual leave, up to 15 holidays, personal and sick days; excellent health, life, and retirement plans; and tuition remission. To learn more about our benefits, click here . TU also offers a variety of great perks and discounts, which can be found here .

If you are motivated, innovative and team-oriented, we would love to hear from you.

For consideration, please submit a cover letter and resume with your online application.

This position will be open for a minimum of 14 days.

The safety of our students, faculty, staff, and neighbors has been our top priority and the focus of every one of our decisions since the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the University System of Maryland (USM) has strongly encouraged full COVID vaccination and up-to-date booster shots (when eligible) for all faculty, staff, and students at all schools in the USM as both a reasonable and necessary means of protecting our health and safety.