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Job Description
45% SSC Leadership and Financial Oversight
- Guides and directs activities for assigned SSC Finance Staff
- Manages cross-functional activities of finance staff, including oversight of all accounting and financial management related functions.
- Trains in functional accounting, financial management skills, including optimizing the use of systems and reporting.
- Works with staff to maintain compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
- Working with the central finance offices and other SSCs, evaluates opportunities to enhance existing processes or provide improved service to client units.
- Works with Process Improvement and Training Committees as needed to implement process design changes or system updates.
- Serves as a resource for SSC staff working through challenging transactions and provide analytical support to work through challenges.
- Oversees staff work and ensures procedures are consistent with policy; monitors relationships with assigned departments and centers to ensure high levels of satisfaction.
- Addresses personnel needs of the SSC Finance Staff by working with central units to promote financial training and hire new employees.
- Addresses SSC audit findings to improve compliance and accuracy of transaction processing.
- SSC representative for external and internal compliance audits. Works with central finance offices on all external compliance audits
- Coordinates with leaders of academic departments or research centers
- Ensures service levels are met or exceeded, based on the Service Level Agreement (SLA) .
- Meets with assigned departments and centers on a quarterly and as-needed basis.
- Addresses unique concerns or needs of assigned departments and centers.
- Resolves disputes and takes corrective action.
- Reports to the SSC Director
- Shares progress reports and status updates. Informs SSC Director of service or staff issues and necessary steps needed or taken to address them.
- Performs related duties such as conducting staff meetings, preparing written instructions for work assignments, resolving disputes, and preparing narratives and statistical reports.
- Helps resolve and answer finance-related questions for the areas served.
- Escalates questions and problems as appropriate to the SSC Director or appropriate central financial offices.
- Partners with Central Finance staff to develop and present information and training sessions on university financial policies and procedures and budget management techniques. Provides information in a variety of formats, including individual training, workshop type sessions, and seminars to financial officers, deans, directors, chairs, vice provosts and other interested staff as requested.
- Coordinates with Central Finance on the interpretation and communication of financial policies, systems, procedures, and programs.