Senior Administrative Manager - Neurosurgery Administration

UTHealth Houston; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% paid medical premiums

Generous time off

Longevity pay

Retirement plan

Job summary

UTHealth Houston seeks a Senior Administrative Manager to lead the Neurosciences department's business, financial, and administrative operations. You will guide budgets, personnel processes, and staff, ensuring regulatory compliance and efficient workflows in a world-class academic healthcare setting.

The role requires strong business acumen, judgment, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while fostering collaborative relationships and driving projects to completion.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business related field required; equivalent level of education and/or experience may substitute.
• Five years related work experience required; finance, accounting, business administration or management background preferred.
• Advanced working knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook; university financial systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily business and financial processes; monitor trends and forecast future financials.
• Oversee HR activities for direct reports and department staff including recruiting, hiring, training, and salary planning.
• Ensure compliance with fiscal, budgetary, personnel, and operational systems; approve department expenditures.
• Lead administrative staff and coordinate daily activities; prepare cost studies and management reports.
• Serve as liaison for internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth information flow.
• Oversee travel, purchasing, payroll, timekeeping, contracts and grants; monitor budget status.
• Train and supervise support staff; participate in interviewing and performance evaluations.
• Advise on financial and administrative policies; help develop business processes and policy documentation.

Skills

Office software proficiency

University financial systems

Budget management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business related field

Tools

Visa processing systems

HCM

FMS

Coupa

Concur

Calendar management platforms

Job description

Join the UTHealth Houston Department of Neurosciences as a Senior Administrative Manager and play a key role in supporting the success of our Neurosurgery Administration team. In this leadership position, you will oversee the department’s daily business, financial, and administrative operations, helping to ensure efficient workflows, regulatory compliance, and exceptional organizational performance. We are seeking a highly organized, service-oriented professional who excels at building collaborative relationships, managing competing priorities, and driving projects through completion. The ideal candidate will bring strong business acumen, sound judgment, and attention to detail while overseeing budgets, personnel processes, and administrative staff. Experience with systems such as Visa processing, FML, HCM, FMS, Coupa, Concur, calendar management platforms, or comparable enterprise systems is highly valued. If you are passionate about operational excellence and supporting a world-class academic healthcare environment,

What we do here changes the world.

It's because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you'd expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:

• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time - all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
• The longer you stay, the more vacation you'll accrue!
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!

We take care of our employees!

As a world-renowned institution, our employees' wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as…

• Free financial and legal counseling
• Free mental health counseling services
• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
• Resources for child and elder care
• Plus many more!

Position Summary:

Responsible for the daily business operational and financial management of a large organizational unit or service line. Ensures compliance to the fiscal, budgetary, personnel, and operational systems established by university, departmental, program, and grant guidelines. Makes complex business process decisions requiring comprehensive knowledge, discretion and independent judgment of a wide range of regulations, policies, procedures and business practices. Additional guidance may be provided with a detailed position description.

Position Key Accountabilities:

• Manages the day to day business and financial processes, trends past performance and forecasts future financials.
• Manages the Human Resources activities for direct reports and department staff in regards to: recruiting and selection, hiring and termination, training, professional development, mentoring, counseling, performance evaluations, and salary plan. May manage Faculty recruitment process.
• Regularly handles confidential information and sensitive issues.
• Manages faculty and staff files, as well as weekly time reports, vacations, sick leaves, and time and effort reports. Approves all department/division expenditures.
• Reviews and obtains necessary approvals for all personnel action forms regarding appointments, promotions, separations, salary actions, fund source changes, and other types of personnel action.
• Ensures actions are processed accurately and in a timely manner in the human resources and financial management systems.
• Monitors open encumbrances. Manages expenditures and provides a report on the budget status as requested. Provides a comparison between actual and budget.
• Monitors travel, purchasing, payroll, timekeeping, contracts and grants.
• Manages the acquisition of documents needed to monitor adherence to grant or program requirements.
• Maintains departmental, unit or service line equipment and space inventories.
• Monitors fund sources to verify accuracy to budgetary restrictions. Takes necessary steps to comply with restrictions.
• Provides approval of purchase requisitions based on established signature authority guidelines.
• Manages and coordinates the daily activities of the department/program through administrative staff.
• May create and edit various communications materials for the department/program, which may include printed materials, web site content and/or department newsletters.
• Identifies and solves problems independently whether they are fiscal or administrative.
• Serves as an internal and external liaison for the department to provide and ensure a smooth, efficient, and appropriate flow of information.
• Reviews current processes to determine effectiveness and efficiencies. Implements changes when necessary.
• Responds to questions on departmental, unit, service line or system policies and procedures. Ensures knowledge is disseminated to those affected.
• May assist in the preparation of the annual budget. Evaluates and implements annual budgets to include all funding sources. Prepares cost studies and management reports reflecting historical financial data and monitoring expenditures against the budget.
• Trains entry level support staff. Leads support staff. Assists with interviewing, orientation and scheduling of staff. Performs lower staff performance evaluations.
• Serves as a high level administrative liaison with others within and outside assigned areas regarding business and financial issues on purchasing, personnel, facilities and operations.
• Responsible for budgets and financial matters assigned by supervisor. Maintains or reconcile financial records/reports with detailed analysis. FMS training with a passing score is required. Limited signature authority.
• Advises on financial and business processes, policies and procedures. Drafts business policy and processes as assigned by supervisor.
• Responsible for making routine to complex business and financial decisions and judgment calls, and may assist or make recommendations regarding complex or impactful decisions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Certification/Skills:

Advanced working knowledge of standard Office Software such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook is required.

Advanced working knowledge of University financial systems is preferred.

Minimum Education:

Bachelor's degree business related field required. Equivalent level of education and/or experience may substitute for education requirement.

Minimum Experience:

Five (5) Years Related Work Experience Required.

Prior experience in finance, accounting, business administration or business management required.

Physical Requirements:

Exerts up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds frequently and/or a negligible amount constantly to move objects.

Security Sensitive:

This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code

• 51.215 and Texas Government Code
• 411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code
• 117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R.
• 791.4. Residency Requirement:

Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.