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Another Source’s client, Arizona State University, is recruiting an Associate Director, Budget Planning and Operations Analysts to join their Office of Planning and Budget team in Tempe, Arizona. This position offers a hybrid schedule with 3 days on campus and 2 days remote.
Learn more about the Office of Planning and Budget:
We serve the ASU Public Enterprise by facilitating resource planning and allocation and by delivering comprehensive analysis to support decision making, promote financial health, and advance the values of the ASU Charter. OPB also provides financial information and regular reporting to the Arizona Joint Legislative Budget Committee, Governor’s Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting, and the Arizona Board of Regents.
Learn more about OPB: https://cfo.asu.edu/budget
At OPB, we share a common set of values that guide our work and collaboration:
We are better together.
Embracing different perspectives and strengths; fostering and maintaining positive relationships; collaborating early and often.
We proceed with care.
Acting with integrity in our interactions and operations; building trust through a strong commitment to transparency, openness, and accountability.
We are intellectually curious.
Exploring new information and opportunities and creating innovative material and approaches; sharing knowledge and ideas and solicit input at all levels.
We translate information into stories.
Synthesizing complex data and concepts; zooming in on the critical details and panning out to consider the implications to resource availability.
Description:
As Associate Director, Budget Planning and Operations, you lead OPB’s Liaisons group in
critical internal and external budget production and reporting. You and your team members serve as budget liaisons to administrative/Vice President (VP) units as assigned, supporting chief business officers through ASU’s internal annual budgeting, mid-year forecasting, and midyear CFO financial review processes. You take ownership of significant annual processes resulting in key deliverables for the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR), Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC), and Governor’s Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting (OSPB) throughout the fiscal year. You contribute to OPB policies, processes, and best practices and offer meaningful perspective to OPB management for decision making, goal setting, and strategic planning.
Expected hiring range: $105,000-$125,000 depending on experience
Learn more about the benefits of working at ASU: https://cfo.asu.edu/benefits
Essential Duties:
Supervising and other areas of responsibility
Oversee multiple full-time staff, student employees and fellowship program scholars.
Lead OPB’s Liaisons group, you will set the agenda for your team - identifying, prioritizing, and executing on goals and deliverables in your areas of responsibility.
Leading OPB’s Liaisons group
Manage your team’s portfolio of budget units, developing clear and consistent practices for OPB to best support the ASU enterprise.
Primary relationship manager and point of contact in OPB for your assigned administrative/VP area budget units, which are highly complex and sensitive in nature.
In support of both your team’s budget units and the CFO, you perform work to support central resource planning, annual budgeting, mid-year forecasting, and mid-year CFO financial review processes.
Your team prepares cost and budget unit variance analyses, develops revenue and expense forecasts, analyzes trends, and compiles commitment analyses.
As needed, you perform financial account reconciliations, financial statement analysis, and transaction research to support unit planning efforts and executive decision-making.
To facilitate the allocation of central university resources to ASU administrative/VP area budget units, you are responsible for budgeting, forecasting, and processing financial transactions from your assigned central university accounts, which are complex and detailed in nature.
Supporting external budget reporting
You have process ownership of the development and presentation of ASU’s annual operating budget and tuition proposal submissions to ABOR as well as ASU’s legislative budget request submission to the State of Arizona.
You develop a familiarity with, and understanding of, Board and legislative policies, practices, terminology, and allocation methodologies to ensure financial compliance with University/Board policies and procedures and applicable legal rules and regulations.
As needed, you draw insight from budget, planning, and financial data from a variety of sources to assist with ad hoc reports, memoranda, and analyses as requested by ABOR, JLBC, and OSPB.
You collaborate with your counterparts in other departments and units as needed to facilitate the collection of unit financial estimates, budgets, forecasts, or other information for use in external processes.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, public administration, public policy, economics, higher education administration, or related field.
Five (5) years of experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and three (3) years of supervisory experience OR any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.
Expertise in using Microsoft Office applications, with advanced use of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Desired Qualifications:
Master's degree in related field, such as finance, business, public administration, public policy, economics, higher education administration.
Seven (7) years relevant work experience in budgeting, forecasting, or financial analysis in the public or nonprofit sectors (preferably in higher education) and five (5) years of supervisory experience, including demonstrated experience supervising teams.
Demonstrated experience using enterprise resource planning applications, including general ledger and budget applications (e.g., Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday FMS, PeopleSoft).
Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.
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