CHESS-posted 2 days ago
Full-time • Director
Remote • Santa Fe, NM
51-100 employees

The Senior Direct of Financial Planning, Analysis, and Budget will serve as the operational-strategic lead for position control and state reporting. This role bridges tactical execution and strategic leadership effectively and efficiently to support the college’s overall mission, goals, and strategic direction.

  • Serves as lead in the position control; responsible for reviewing and approving budget for compensation actions; oversee and maintain costing allocations on positions and workers for all funding sources, collaborating with Grants to ensure costing is current.
  • Lead in building and managing salary and fringe budget models based on recommendations from the Office of Human Resources.
  • Position control, responsible for reviewing and approving compensation actions as it pertains to budget control.
  • Building and managing salary and fringe financial models.
  • Developing mass salary increase scenarios and cost analysis.
  • In collaboration with HR, manages salary schedules, compensation increases, and loading approved actions into ERP system.
  • Assist with non-personnel budget tasks, as needed.
  • Maintain multiple informational data sets related to budget preparation and analysis.
  • Collaborate with internal staff, SFCC administration, external regulating agencies, and others, fulfilling special data and analysis requests while applying adequate and sufficient problem resolution, guiding and facilitating conversations on fiscal operations.
  • Represents the college as one of the Budget and Compensation functional leads on various CHESS workstreams, which includes system design, testing, and implementation of the new multi-college enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
  • In coordination with the Associate Vice Presidents and Vice President of Finance & Operations participates in developing and overseeing the implementation of the Annual Operating Budgets.
  • Safeguards conformance to State Higher Education Department (HED) standards, SFCC's budget, local, state, and federal laws, rules, and regulations.
  • Coordinates the development of budget guidelines, annual legislative funding requests, and budget documents.
  • Supports the financial health and strategic direction of SFCC operations, providing financial vision and direction, ensuring sound fiscal policy, applying advanced budgetary and accounting principles.
  • Performs research and analysis to evaluate programs, making recommendations for more cost-effective organization or funding mechanisms, enforcing internal procedures and controls.
  • Assists in preparing multi-year financial plans, compiling scheduled and special reports, analyses, and feasibility studies, compiling annual data summaries and program status details, overseeing, verifying, and coordinating submission of budget requirements to the State of New Mexico.
  • Assists advising management on financial viability/cost-benefit and relative ranking of requests, evaluating, and aiding in decisioning proposals for funding of special projects/programs, recommending, and participating in the development of SFCC institutional policies and procedures.
  • Leads and oversees designated professional staff, to include hiring, work allocation, training, and performance evaluation.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or related field.
  • 10 years of job-related experience.
  • Education may be substituted for experience for up to two (2) years.
  • In-depth knowledge of financial planning, general accounting, and budget management principles and practices within government and/or educational institutions.
  • Excellent communication and professional leadership abilities.
  • Knowledge of computerized information systems used in financial and accounting applications.
  • Ability to investigate and analyze information, identify issues, and draw conclusions.
  • Ability to supervise and train employees, including organizing, prioritizing, and scheduling work assignments; skill in employee development and performance management.
  • Ability to make administrative and procedural decisions.
  • Ability to develop, plan, and implement short- and long-range goals.
  • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
  • Ability to execute and integrate complex financial analyses and prepare comprehensive capital/operating budget summaries and projections.
  • Advanced financial analysis and mathematical skills.
  • Knowledge of Higher Education Department (HED) financial reporting standards and of State of New Mexico financial reporting laws, regulations, and procedures.
  • Knowledge of higher education fund accounting principles and procedures.
  • Ability to design and develop complex financial models.
  • Ability to solve complex problems.
  • Demonstrated operational and technical knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
  • Previous supervisory experience.
  • Deep knowledge of financial, accounting, and budget principles, including fund accounting practices specific to higher education institutions.
  • Extensive knowledge of compensation practices and payroll processing.
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