Vice Chancellor, Finance and Administration

Central Texas College; Killeen (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Central Texas College seeks a visionary Chief Financial Officer and Investment Officer to lead finance, accounting, and administrative services, ensuring financially sound operations that support the college's mission in Texas.

The role directs planning, budgeting, and financial reporting, oversees investments, procurement, facilities, human resources, IT, and public safety, and partners with senior leaders to align resources with student access and program growth.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in accounting, finance, or MBA OR Bachelor's with a CPA license.
• CPA certification preferred.
• Five (5) years of senior management experience in finance or accounting within higher education, government, or comparable organizations.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership for finance, accounting, and administrative services.
• Direct planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting with transparency.
• Oversee investment strategies and asset management for the college.
• Ensure compliance with state and federal fiscal management laws and GAAP.
• Lead facilities, HR, IT, procurement, and public safety functions as a senior executive.
• Coordinate with senior leaders to align financial planning with mission and enrollment goals.
• Manage multi-year budget planning and performance benchmarking across departments.

Skills

Leadership

Budgeting

Strategic planning

Investment oversight

Fund accounting

Team supervision

Policy compliance

Education

Master’s degree in accounting, finance, or MBA; CPA preferred

Job description

This position serves as the chief financial officer and investment officer for the College. This position provides executive leadership, direction, and management for the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of the finance and accounting, and administrative services functions (facilities management, human resources management, information technology, auxiliary services, materials management, contracting and procurement, and public safety) of the College.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in accounting, business administration, finance or related field OR Bachelor’s degree with a current Certified Public Accountant license. Earned degree must be from a nationally or regionally accredited institution of higher education.

• CPA certification preferred.

Five (5) years directly related full-time business, finance, administrative, or accounting experience at the senior management level or above within higher education, local or state government, or company AND five (5) years’ experience leading and directing operations to achieve organizational goals.

• Please limit resume to five pages or less and provide a cover letter.

Key Responsibilities

• Ability to provide effective leadership at all levels of the College.
• Experience supervising and managing personnel.
• Knowledge of fund accounting principles.
• Experience budgeting, planning and forecasting while building budget literacy and transparency among unit leaders, so spending decisions are visibly tied to mission.
• Knowledge of investment strategies and techniques.
• Broad knowledge of administrative services functions.
• Ability to develop long and short-term budget, financial, and operational planning in support of the college’s mission.
• Knowledge and understanding of organizational performance benchmarking and measurement concepts, principles, and techniques.
• Demonstrated organizational skills in handling and directing multiple and complex assignments and projects.
• Knowledge of local, state and federal compliance and reporting requirements.
• Effectively communicate orally and in writing, and work with internal and external college stakeholders.
• Ability to coordinate and lead various planning committees to include: Master Facilities Planning, Strategic Planning and Budget Planning, ensuring budget planning spans multiple years with built-in flexibility to adjust annually.
• Ability to work with a broad range of constituencies, analyzing complex issues, and function as a neutral agent to facilitate issue resolution.

Additional Responsibilities

• Responsible for College’s financial, general accounting, accounts payable and receivable, contract administration, planning, budgeting, forecasting, investment management, student financial services, banking services, and funding operations.
• Establish, monitor, and update College financial policies and transactional standards, ensuring consistency with the College’s mission and strategic plans and compliance with state and federal fiscal management laws and regulations, and generally accepted accounting standards.
• Serve as the College’s investment officer.
• Partner with the Chancellor and College Foundation to activate underused assets, foundation funds, and other resources traditionally regarded as unavailable; and build external partnerships that yield cost savings or more efficient services.
• Review and analyze major contractual obligations of the institution to ensure consistency with overall financial goals, objectives, and plans, and compliance with the College’s financial policies, procedures, and standards.
• Direct the activities associated with the security and investment of the College’s assets and funds.
• Oversee the evaluation, development and implementation of facilities master planning for the College.
• Provide leadership in the development and execution of the College’s organizational budget approved by the Board of Trustees including capital budget strategies and plans to fund enrollment growth, educational programs, and facilities.
• Promote administrative operational efficiencies with excellence and accountability, creativity, leadership and cooperative teamwork through District-wide administrative support departments including: finance and budget, human resource management, information technology, facilities management public safety, contracting and procurement, and auxiliary services.
• Provide monthly financial statements and reports of the financial condition of the College to the Chancellor. Reports benchmark the College against peer institutions and connect spending trends to student access/success metrics.
• Partner with Academic Affairs and Student Services to fiscal decisions are aligned with retention and completion goals.
• Collaborate with the Chancellor, Cabinet, and other administrators in institutional planning, policy development, gained operational efficiencies and problem resolution.
• Other duties and special projects as assigned by the Chancellor.