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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, or equivalent; at least 8 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.
• Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that are above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.

Nice To Haves

• Leader who understands the technical requirements of public-sector finance but can also build relationships, develop teams, and navigate organizational complexity.
• Knowledge of higher education finance, State of New Mexico financial requirements, Higher Education Department reporting standards, auxiliary enterprises, and integrated business practices within a public university is highly valuable.
• Significant leadership experience in financial planning, budgeting, accounting, financial analysis, or fiscal administration within a large and complex organization.
• Advanced knowledge of public-sector financial, accounting, and budgeting principles and practices.
• Exceptional ability to analyze complex financial and operational information and translate it into clear recommendations for senior leaders.
• Experience designing complex financial models, projections, forecasts, and scenario analyses.
• Demonstrated success developing or improving financial systems, processes, controls, reporting structures, or shared-service models.
• Strong understanding of internal controls, fiscal compliance, reconciliations, audit requirements, and financial risk management.
• Ability to understand diverse operating models rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach to financial management.
• Experience leading, developing, and supporting professional financial staff.
• Strong consultation, communication, and relationship-management skills.
• The judgment and credibility necessary to advise executive leaders while maintaining collaborative partnerships with operational units.
• Ability to lead organizational change and establish clear expectations, accountability, and consistent practices across decentralized operations.
• Experience working with computerized financial and accounting information systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive-level leadership for CES budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, analysis, and fiscal oversight.
• Develop financial strategies that support CES priorities, operational sustainability, institutional stewardship, and long-range planning.
• Translate complex financial information into meaningful analysis and recommendations for executive and operational leaders.
• Develop sophisticated financial models, forecasts, scenario analyses, and decision-support tools to evaluate operational choices, investments, funding needs, and financial risk.
• Prepare and contribute to high-level financial analyses and reports for University executive leadership, the Board of Regents, the State of New Mexico, and other governmental or institutional stakeholders.
• Lead the implementation and continued development of CES's centralized financial services model.
• Provide leadership, technical supervision, workload coordination, training, and professional development for financial managers and staff supporting CES units.
• Establish consistent financial standards, tools, timelines, reporting practices, and expectations across the division.
• Strengthen cross-training and knowledge sharing to create a resilient finance organization that is not dependent on individual staff members or unit-specific practices.
• Develop a strong finance team with clear accountability, high professional standards, and a shared commitment to excellent service.
• Establish consistent approaches to budget development, forecasting, reconciliations, financial modeling, internal service unit reporting, quarterly profit-and-loss reporting, and executive financial reporting.
• Ensure financial information is accurate, timely, transparent, and comparable while recognizing the different business models, revenue structures, cost drivers, risks, and performance measures across CES.
• Oversee financial systems, processes, and controls necessary to effectively manage funds, revenues, and expenditures.
• Ensure compliance with University policies, generally accepted financial and accounting practices, and applicable State of New Mexico and higher education requirements.
• Strengthen internal controls, audit readiness, reconciliation practices, and fiscal accountability.
• Work closely with CES executives, AVPs, directors, and operational leaders on budgeting, forecasting, staffing proposals, service changes, rate development, funding requests, and other decisions with significant financial implications.
• Help unit leaders understand the financial implications of operational decisions and develop sustainable financial strategies.
• Provide analysis and recommendations while preserving the responsibility of unit leadership to establish operational priorities, service expectations, staffing needs, and unit-level strategies.
• Identify emerging financial risks and opportunities and work collaboratively with leaders to develop corrective actions and solutions.
• Advocate for CES resource needs through credible financial analysis, forecasting, and institutional financial planning.
• Evaluate and improve financial processes, systems, policies, and operating practices across CES.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, increase efficiency, strengthen controls, and improve the quality of financial decision-making.
• Represent CES on University financial planning committees and contribute to institutional discussions regarding financial systems, policies, and practices.
• Participate with executive and senior leadership in establishing short- and long-range organizational goals and evaluating financial and operational effectiveness.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, transparency, accountability, collaboration, and responsible stewardship.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• educational benefits through the tuition remission and dependent education programs.