Finance, Operations, and HR Principle Professional

University of Colorado•Colorado Springs, CO

9d•$59,499 - $76,773•Hybrid

About The Position

The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is seeking a Finance, Operations and HR Principle Professional to join the Dean’s Office, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences team. This role is crucial for overseeing and supporting college-wide financial and HR operations, requiring discretion, analytical skill, personal accountability, and responsibility. The position supports the HR Director in administering a broad range of professional-level human resources functions and assists the Senior Assistant Dean of Finance & Operations by providing continuous support and training on financial policies, operations, procedures, and payroll to chairs, directors, faculty, and staff across the college (serving over 300 permanent employees and 200+ temporary lecturers). UCCS is located at the base of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado Springs, a city known for its stunning landscapes, vibrant tech scene, and a community that values outdoor adventure and forward-thinking growth.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in HR, finance, business, accounting, or related field OR substitution of year for year equivalent experience is required.
Must have professional experience in Finance, Budget or Accounting.

Nice To Haves

Professional experience in Higher Education is preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide oversight, guidance, and training to faculty and staff on revenue/expenditure monitoring across all fund types.
Serve as primary contact for monthly deficit management and corrections.
Develop procedures, guides, labs, and training for budgeting and corrections.
Create and maintain high-level quarterly budget reports.
Coordinate with Accounting, Budget, SFS, HR, and Sponsored Research.
Support procurement, reimbursement, and travel processes.
Provide expert interpretation of policies for purchasing, P-cards, reimbursements, and travel.
Support payroll processing across the College.
Advise chairs and staff on $3M+ in annual payroll for lecturers and others.
Process summer research payroll and report effort data.
Support merit salary process, verifying position budgets, FTE, and compensation pools.
Compile, create, and interpret financial reports.
Make recommendations supporting effective decision-making.
Manage the recruitment and hiring processes for the college of LAS, including position description development, budget availability, search waiver requests, search committee support.
Manage job postings by initiating the Request to Fill, draft posting in CU Careers, and coordinating with HR to post.
Manage search committees by scheduling and running charge meetings, checking finalists with HR, initiating SkillSurvey reference checks, creating letters of offer and sends for electronic signatures, initiating onboarding process for new hires, including background checks and Person of Interest (POI) appointments.
Complete candidate dispositions in CU Careers.
Inform Dean’s office staff, College finance team, and Provost’s office of new hires (for new faculty orientation).
Ensure new hires are added to LAS email and new faculty lists, RPT and sabbatical schedules.
Assist with coordination with Dean, HR Director, and College finance team to determine terms of additional or revised appointments (FTE, budget, compensation, begin and end dates, job duties).
Create offer and amendment letters, send through Adobe Sign for electronic authorizing signatures. Provide copies of fully signed letters to department chairs and program assistants, college financial staff.
Post all monthly staff timesheets.
Post bi-weekly student timesheets for the LAS Dean’s Office and other departments, if coverage is needed.
Manage the IRC annual performance review process and support the HR Director in the management of staff evaluations. May be responsible for some of the following tasks: Communicating processes, timelines, forms, relevant policies. Collecting and ensuring all required documents are provided.
Initiate and monitor the separation/termination processes for leaving employees. Provide separation information to those who leave the university (retirement, COBRA, return of university-owned items, keys, etc.).
Enter separation ticket in Cherwell for termination of access. Enter separation in HCM; coordinate with HR re: payouts.
Terminate secondary administrative appointments in HCM at end of appointment.
Perform additional duties as assigned.