Director, Financial Services

Santa Fe College•Gainesville, FL

11d•$68,906

About The Position

The application deadline for this position is 11:59pm EST on December 18, 2025. The Office for Finance is committed to fulfilling Santa Fe College’s (SF) mission by providing the highest quality fiscal services through excellence in customer service, integrity, accountability, and stewardship, working together to implement creative solutions and best practices in sustainability. Under the guidance of the Vice President for Finance and Business Affairs and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), the Director of Financial Services provides leadership across a broad range of finance functions, including budget development, analysis, and monitoring; grant budgeting, tracking, and compliance; Financial Aid accounting; and management of the Workday Foundation Data Model (FDM). The Director ensures the accuracy of financial coding and reporting, identifies and resolves business process and configuration issues that affect financial operations, and learns about new functionality in Workday that will enhance efficiency of services. Serving as the primary point of contact for FDM, the Director is responsible for maintaining system integrity, coordinating enhancements, ensuring accurate data management, and supporting cross-departmental integrations.

Requirements

A bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, finance, financial management, or a related field with four (4) years of professional experience in accounting, finance, financial management, or related areas.
A combination of related education and experience equal to eight (8) years may be considered.
Prior supervisory experience is required.
A criminal background check will be conducted.

Nice To Haves

A master’s degree in business, accounting, finance, financial management, or a related field with experience working in a higher education setting, as well as with Workday.
CPA licensure.

Responsibilities

Leads an assigned team in Finance and Business Affairs, which includes establishing goals and objectives identified through assessing needs, problem solving, planning workflow, setting deadlines, and establishing standards of work; provides guidance and direction to team members.
Oversees the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and best practices related to grant budgeting, tracking, reporting, and compliance for post-award grant activities and restricted funds accounting.
Serves as the escalation point for complex compliance and reporting issues, providing direction, ensuring timely resolution, and communicating outcomes to senior leadership.
Manages and maintains the FDM, including cost centers, programs, funds, worktags, and other financial elements, ensuring accurate configuration, data integrity, and compliance in collaboration with peers and cross-functional departments.
Collaborates with Human Resources, Payroll, and other functional units to ensure the FDM supports financial, operational, and human capital management data for reporting and analytics.
Leads process improvements and system enhancements to optimize FDM functionality and related business processes.
Develops, maintains, and distributes financial and analytical reports to support budgeting, post-award grant management, and institutional decision-making, including required state and federal reporting such as the Financial Aid Fee report, FISAP, and High School Dual Enrollment reimbursement report.
Prepares specialized and ad-hoc budgetary and financial analyses by request, evaluating revenues, expenditures, activity costs, and other financial information.
Prepares training materials and other documentation on the configuration and use of worktags and other FDM elements, helping users and finance staff understand correct usage, impact on reporting, and minimize mis-tagging of transactions.
Develops and monitors the college’s budget in collaboration with the CFO through gathering, analyzing, and reconciling data, ensuring it meets both internal and external requirements.
Monitors, researches, and analyzes organizational spending, budget variances, and fund availability, reviewing budget requests for completeness, accuracy, and compliance.
Oversees grant and restricted fund performance, monitoring expenditures, tracking reporting metrics, and ensuring financial integrity, compliance, and alignment with programmatic objectives.
Assists with data conversions from legacy systems and participates in the implementation of system enhancements.
Reconciles Pell Grants, Direct Loans, Federal Work Study (FSW) overflow accounting, and SEOG monthly, ensuring consistency across institutional and federal systems.
Partners with Financial Aid to identify FWS students eligible for FWEP, processing payroll accounting adjustments to ensure full utilization of allocated funds each semester.
Performs monthly reconciliation of Bright Futures scholarships, tracking and monitoring disbursements and adjustments in coordination with Financial Aid.
Maintains and monitors Financial Aid budgets to ensure financial control, adherence to allocations, and prevention of over-disbursements.
Complies with all published College Rules, procedures, guidelines, and laws/regulations governing public employees, including but not limited to those related to document retention and destruction, FERPA, and confidentiality.
Strictly honors the privacy, security, and confidentiality of records and other sensitive information according to appropriate state, federal, and college regulations, policies, and procedures.
Provides service excellence through courteous, informed, accessible, and professional engagement.
Performs other duties as assigned.