Assistant Director of Budget Management
The Office of Budget and Fiscal Planning seeks an Assistant Director of Budget Management. This individual supports diagnostic information gathering and manages production teams delivering centralized financial planning and budget services to CU Boulder college/department leadership and fiscal staff.
Under the guidance of the Director of Budget Management, the Assistant Director links the campus vision, strategic priorities, and people in a system of evaluation, action, and results in order to provide timely and data-driven support to her/his supervisor and other campus leaders. To this end, the Assistant Director builds high-trust and collaborative relationships with campus partners and facilitates the identification and resolution of financial challenges as well as explores the financial impact/opportunity of strategic initiatives.
Who We Are
Budget & Fiscal Planning partners with academic and administrative leaders, coordinates campus-wide budget and fiscal planning and identifies and facilitates the allocation of resources necessary for the Boulder campus to excel as a major educational and research university. Through collaboration, we connect ideas, resources and decisions that drive the university’s success. BFP is a part of the Budget and Finance team within the Finance and Business Strategy (FBS) division. Our office collaborates with campus partners to ensure the University of Colorado Boulder has a strategic, systematic, and comprehensive approach to all areas of business and financial management.
What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be
Department Leadership
- Participate with department leaders to review, refine, expand, and build innovative practices that advance and grow services.
- Contribute to department-wide goals and issues management with department leaders and collaborate on forward-thinking solutions by providing a safe sounding board for ideas.
- Broaden department knowledge and experience by serving as back-up support to department leaders.
- Present results-focused plans and projections to peers, supervisor, and department leadership.
Project Management and Support
- Provide coordination on budgetary and other resource planning matters, including regular review and analysis of financial information.
- Assist in the development of material necessary to analyze, review, and support budgetary needs, discussions, and reporting including the maintenance of the campus budget model.
- Build collaborative relationships with CU Boulder colleagues and leadership in order to seek, identify, clarify, and encourage the communication of information necessary to improve processes and/or deliver project results with high degree of efficacy.
- Set or adhere to deadlines and assign project responsibilities to staff based on individual expertise.
- Prepare and present weekly updates to supervisor and prepare formal and informal reports for management.
- Coordinate with supervisor and other applicable departments to ensure deliverables are inclusive of input from affected units.
- Support all activity-based costing at the program and course level, and ensure all projects connect expenses, revenues, and outcomes to facilitate data transparency and executive decision making.
- Manage, track, document, and ensure timely delivery of cyclical, scheduled, and extemporaneous requests directed by supervisor.
Cross-department partnerships and engagements
- Serve as a link between centralized budget/financial analysts, supervisor, and campus constituents to define the problem/question, determine project scope, address problems, and ensure effective and timely project completion.
- Support critical path and/or high-level projects and steward project members toward timely solution through the development, presentation, and interpretation of data-dense information tailored to meet the financial expertise of each audience member.
- Participate in job-related committees and engagements organized by partner departments, including the Campus Controller’s Office, Data Analytics, Provost’s Office, and Enrollment Management.
Supervision, Management, and Development
- Establish and monitor staff performance and development goals, set objectives, determine priorities, and conduct frequent coaching and annual performance appraisals.
- Organize and assign workflow and provide clear and direct communication to establish focus and ensure employees understand duties and delegated tasks.
- Monitor and manage daily activities of production; provide constructive feedback and support issue resolution.
- Cultivate collaboration and encourage open communication, curiosity, feedback, and involvement in decision-making processes.
- Build positive relationships with employees, provide motivational support, and champion a work culture that challenges, respects, and engages staff.
- Ensure business and service continuity by identifying and assigning back-up project leads for all cyclical and major deliverables; assess knowledge gaps to coordinate training and skill development opportunities for cross-trained personnel.
What We Can Offer
Salary range starts at $100,000, commensurate with experience.
Benefits
The University of Colorado offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO Pass. The University of Colorado Boulder is one of the largest employers in Boulder County and offers an inspiring higher education environment. Learn more about the University of Colorado Boulder.
What We Require
- Bachelor’s degree.
- At least five years of relevant experience required, including at least one year of experience training, leading, or supervising others is required.
- Equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute.
What You Will Need
- Ability to cultivate collaboration and work in coordination with a team, whether serving as the project manager, team leader, or member.
- Experience managing change and supporting leadership initiatives to enhance revenues, reduce expenses, and improve efficiencies.
- Flexible mindset, willing to listen to others and consider options and ideas that may take additional effort but have significant potential.
- Ability to coach and encourage team members and stakeholders—from entry-level analysts to leadership— through complex data, processes, and forms.
- Proactive relationship builder genuinely interested in enabling the success of others to strengthen CU Boulder’s internal partnerships.
- Attentive and ethical communicator with excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to explain complex financial processes and reasons behind decisions customized to the audience.
- Thorough analytical thinker, excited and able to tackle problems through a logical and systematic approach and committed to ensuring complete, accurate, and carefully prepared documents.
- Commit to improvement with results orientation, relying on data and institutional knowledge to forecast issues and opportunities and prepare appropriate options for numerous outcomes.
- Technical expertise and demonstrated depth of knowledge and skill in the field of public higher education budget modeling, including advanced skills in the use of relevant applications such as Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, and Outlook.
- Ability to manage and wrangle large data sets, bringing them into formats understandable by a wide array of constituents.
- Experience as an independent and team contributor, with the ability to identify what needs to be done and the initiative to address the task/issue before being asked.
- Self-confident and willing to take an independent position, speak truth to leadership, and professionally advocate for a position.
What We Would Like You To Have
- Master’s degree preferred.
- Two years of supervisory experience.
- Extensive experience with university financial modeling and related university budget management and reporting.
Special Instructions
To apply, please submit the following materials:
1. A current resume.
2. A cover letter that specifically addresses how your background and experience align with the requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities of the position.
You will not be asked to upload references at this time.
Please apply by February 17, 2020, for consideration.
Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For consideration, applications must be submitted through CU Boulder Jobs.
Posting Contact Name: Boulder Campus Human Resources
Posting Contact Email: Recruiting@colorado.edu