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Primary Purpose:

Contributes to assigned unit’s financial success by examining budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations. Analyzes budgeting and account reports.

Job Category: Exempt

Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience

Pay Basis: Annually

Subject to Grant Funding? No

Essential Job Functions:

1. Plans, directs, supervises, and coordinates work activities of subordinates and staff, as applicable, including hiring, coaching, evaluating, and terminating.
2. Prepares, examines, or analyzes accounting records, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
3. Reports to management regarding the finances of assigned unit(s).
4. Develops, maintains, and analyzes budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted revenues and expenses to actuals.
5. Analyzes business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
6. Interprets budget directives and ensures compliance.
7. Reviews purchase orders, check requests, expense reports, journal entries, and/or budget transfers for accuracy, and approves or denies.
8. Compiles budget data and documents, based on estimated revenues and expenses, previous budgets, and actual results.
9. Reviews operating budgets to analyze trends affecting budget needs, and takes corrective action when needed.
10. Analyzes monthly department budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls.
11. Compiles and analyzes accounting records and other data to determine the financial resources required to implement a program.
12. Provides advice and/or technical assistance with cost analysis, fiscal allocation, and budget preparation.
13. Examines budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations.
14. Matches appropriations for specific programs with appropriations for broader programs, including items for emergency funds.
15. Summarizes budgets and submits recommendations for the approval or disapproval of funds requests.
16. Performs accounting functions related to grants and contracts, including assisting in the development of budgets, approving expenditures, preparing invoices, and ensuring all accounting activity complies with the sponsor’s policies and procedures.
17. Directs the preparation of regular and special budget reports.
18. Serves as a liaison between college administration and university central finance office.
19. Seeks new ways to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and increase profits.
20. Completes special projects as assigned.
21. Performs other duties as assigned or required.

Job Requirements:

Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: Knowledge:
1. Economics and Accounting – General knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
2. English Language – Advanced knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
3. Administration and Management – General knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, budgeting, human resources modeling, leadership technique, and/or coordination of people and resources.
4. Customer Service – General knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer focused support and services.
5. Workplace Etiquette – Advanced knowledge of professional communication, refined interpersonal skills, and thorough understanding and adherence to university policies and cultural norms.

Skills:
1. Active Listening – Advanced skills in giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
2. Reading Comprehension – Proficient understanding of written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents and correspondence.
3. Critical Thinking – Advanced skills in using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
4. Mathematics – Advanced skills in using mathematics to solve problems.
5. Speaking – Proficient skills in talking to others to convey information effectively.
6. Judgment and Decision Making – Advanced skills in considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the appropriate one.
7. Writing – Proficient skills in communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
8. Management of Financial Resources – Advanced skills in determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
9. Organization and Prioritization Management – Advanced skills in organizing, prioritizing, and managing multiple projects simultaneously. Proven ability to manage and coordinate resources and ensure timely completion of tasks.
10. Building Relationships – Proficient skills in building and maintaining relationships. Work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders throughout the university.

Abilities:
1. Mathematical Reasoning – The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
2. Number Facility – The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
3. Problem Sensitivity – The ability to utilize deductive and inductive reasoning to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
4. Deductive Reasoning – The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
5. Inductive Reasoning – The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

Physical Requirements:
1. Near Vision – Must be able to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
2. Speech Recognition – Must be able to identify and understand the speech of another person.
3. Speech Clarity – Must be able to speak clearly so others can understand you.
4. May be required to work nights or weekends.
5. May be exposed to short, intermittent, and/or prolonged periods of sitting and/or standing in performance of job duties.
6. May be required to accomplish job duties using various types of equipment/supplies, to include but not limited to pens, pencils, mobile devices, and computers.

Required Certifications/Licensures:

Required Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Major (if required: Finance or Accounting

Required Experience: Six (6) to eight (8) years of accounting or finance related experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Is this a safety sensitive position? No

Background Screening Required? No

Pre-Employment Conditions:

Sensitivity Disclaimer: Nova Southeastern University is in full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and does not discriminate with regard to applicants or employees with disabilities and will make reasonable accommodation when necessary.

NSU considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status or any other legally protected status.