Manager, Finance & Administration

Ut-Health-Science-Center-At-SAN-Antoni; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

UT Health San Antonio seeks an experienced administrator to manage daily operations of a divisional/organizational unit, focusing on administrative and financial management, and representing the department in business affairs to the university community.

The role oversees budgeting, financial reporting, and strategic resource allocation within a School of Medicine unit, ensuring compliance and driving efficiency across departments.

Qualifications

• Critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong leadership and ability to mobilize teams.
• Excellent communication and ability to interpret financial documents.
• Project management skills to coordinate multi-department initiatives.
• Teamwork and collaboration across departments.
• Business acumen in education, research, clinical care, finances and operations.
• Knowledge of federal, state and higher education accounting and reporting.
• Five years' accounting or business experience, including two years supervisory.

Responsibilities

• Develop and prepare budgets and financial reports for grants, general appropriations, endowments and other funds.
• Plan and direct an organizational unit's financial and administrative management.
• Oversee divisional unit within the School of Medicine.
• Manage all facets and phases of financial and administrative management.
• Oversee general appropriation, endowment, grants, contracts and gift funds.
• Improve business processes ensuring compliance with policies and mission.
• Identify short-term and strategic goals; allocate resources accordingly.
• Control expenditures and accounts to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Direct special projects such as space renovations, staffing, equipment purchases, long-range plans, leasing of off-campus space and services.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Skills

Critical thinking

Leadership

Communication

Project management

Teamwork

Business acumen

Computer skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Healthcare finance experience

Job description

Manages the daily operations of a divisional or organizational unit primarily in the areas of administrative and financial management. Represents the department on business affairs to the institution community.

Responsibilities

• Develops and prepares budgets and financial reports for grants, general appropriations, endowments, and other funds.
• Responsible for the overall planning and direction of an organizational unit(s) or a multi-faceted academic, research and teaching departments.
• Within the School of Medicine, oversight of a divisional unit.
• Manages all facets and phases of financial and administrative management.
• Oversees the management of general appropriation, endowment, federal and non-federal grants and contracts, and gift funds.
• Manages and improves business processes and operations by ensuring continuity, integration of policies and procedures with the organization's mission and strategic plan.
• Identifies short-term and strategic goals and has oversight for the allocation of resources to meet priorities.
• Controls all expenditures and statement of accounts to ensure regulatory compliance and fiscal integrity.
• Develops, plans, and directs special projects, which may include space renovations, space allocations, staffing, equipment purchases, long-range plans, leasing of off-campus space and services.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Critical Thinking Skills - Ability to arrive at accurate conclusions and solutions by visualizing new potentials, and by identifying, defining and analyzing problems and situations using rational and intuitive processes.
• Leadership - Ability to attract and mobilize energies and talents; to work towards a shared purpose in the best interests of the organization, the people comprising it and the people it serves.
• Communication - Ability to shape others' understanding in ways that capture interest, inform and gain support; explain technical concepts to management; ability to read, and interpret professional journals, financial reports, and legal documents, write reports, business correspondence, and procedural manuals.
• Project Management - Ability to co-ordinate the diverse components of the project by quality project planning, execution and change control to achieve required balance of time, cost and quality.
• Teamwork - Builds and maintains positive working relationships, within individual work groups and across departments, through open communication and collaboration; works with others to accomplish goals and objectives.
• Business Acumen - Demonstrates a clear understanding of all areas of the business (education, research, clinical care, finances and operations), – customers (students, trainees, faculty, community), resources, educational trends, new advances, – and uses skills in planning, prioritization, decision-making, and resource allocation to drive desired results; knowledge of Federal, State and higher education accounting and reporting requirements and standards; and financial analysis and accounting principles.
• Knowledge of computer systems, software applications, and automated financial systems.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience in academic or healthcare finance strongly preferred.

Required Skills

• Five (5) years related accounting or business experience, including two (2) years supervisory experience is required.

This position may require the ability to maintain the security and integrity of UT San Antonio and its infrastructure per Texas EO-GA-48.

Job Info

• Job Identification 7826
• Job Category Administration
• Posting Date 08/27/2026, 03:39 PM
• Locations 0305 8300 Floyd Curl Dr., San Antonio, TX, 78229, US (On-site)
• Apply Before 09/26/2026, 03:39 PM
• Organization M1510 - Neurology, M1000 - Dean Medical School, UT Health Science Center, UT Health Science Center