Associate Director - Budgeting & Finance

Georgia Institute of Technology; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia Tech in Atlanta seeks an Associate Director of Budgeting and Finance to lead budgeting, financial analysis, and reporting across campus. You will guide budgets, design controls, and coordinate with senior management to ensure operations align with academic priorities.

This supervisory role requires a Bachelor's degree, six+ years of relevant experience, and proven leadership. You will oversee financial controls, deliver analyses, and support budget committees in a large public research

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Serve as gatekeeper of the Institute system expenditures and ensure planned, purposeful use of funds.
• Direct the design, implementation, and maintenance of databases for budget development, forecasting, and reporting.
• Manage general, restricted, auxiliary, and endowment budgets and consult with senior management to avoid impacting academic and administrative operations.
• Handle internal controls, policy, and procedures, and provide budget management training.
• Conduct reviews to mitigate financial risk and inform senior leadership of emerging issues.
• Recommend changes to the approval process and access controls to ensure compliance with security standards.
• Approve financial transactions and documents in line with policy and regulations on restricted funds.
• Support budget committees, track budget development scorecards, and coordinate the budget document and materials.
• Oversee financial controls to ensure compliance with accounting concepts and policies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline or equivalent

Master's degree in related discipline or equivalent

Job description

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

• Students are our top priority.
• We strive for excellence.
• We thrive on diversity.
• We celebrate collaboration.
• We champion innovation.
• We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
• We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
• We act ethically.
• We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Job Summary

The Associate Director of Budgeting and Finance manages budgeting, financial analysis, preparation of financial reports and statements, and maintains reports. This role is responsible for financial management and accounting functions. Responsible for setting employee and/or group goals, deciding on the organizational structure to meet the goals, assessing employee and/or group performance, providing feedback, and making pay recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Job Duty 1 - Serve as a gatekeeper of the Institute system expenditures, ensuring the planning and purposeful execution of funds
• Job Duty 2 - Direct the design, implementation, and maintenance of databases utilized for budget development, forecasting, and reporting.
• Job Duty 3 - Manage general, restricted, auxiliary, and endowment budgets and consult with senior management to ensure there is no impact on academic and administrative operations.
• Job Duty 4 - Handle internal controls, policy, and procedures, and provide advice and training on budget management and project revenue.
• Job Duty 5 - Conduct reviews to ensure policies, procedures, and systems effectively mitigate financial risk, and inform senior leadership of any emerging risk issues.
• Job Duty 6 - Recommend changes to the approval process, roles, and authorizations to ensure appropriate access and oversee compliance with security standards.
• Job Duty 7 - Approve financial transactions and documents, reviewing them for compliance with policy and procedure as well as specific regulations and/or guidelines on restricted funds.
• Job Duty 8 - Provide support to budget committees, track the budget development scorecard, prepare analyses and reports, and coordinate the production of the proposed budget document and related presentation materials.
• Job Duty 9 - Oversee financial controls to ensure that financial and budgetary information complies with accounting/budgetary concepts and the Institute's policy and procedures.
• Job Duty 10 - Perform other duties as assigned.

Educational Requirements

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in a related discipline or equivalent

Required Experience

Six or more years of relevant experience, including three or more years of supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Educational Qualifications

Master's degree in related discipline or equivalent

Proposed Salary

Proposed Salary: $99,096.00 - $150,000.00. Commensurate with education and experience.

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct .

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653 .

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services.

Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions.

Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

Other Information

This is a supervisory position.

This position has financial responsibilities.

This position will not be required to drive.

This role is considered a position of trust.

This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).

This position will not travel

This position does not require security clearance.

Background Check

A successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit: https://usg.policystat.com/policy/19298143/latest