Senior Business Manager

Senior Business Manager
Position #: 127920

The Division of Information Technology (DIT) is hiring a Senior Business Manager to provide financial management and oversight to campus wide efforts, as well as management of several plant accounts. Essential elements to the position are the ability to lead strategic planning, budgeting, and forecasting efforts. Key to this role is the ability to implement university and division policies, procedures, and initiatives.

Additionally, this is a supervisory position where guidance and oversight will be provided to direct reports, as well as leading division-wide training and documentation. This position will be instrumental in process improvement for business practices, policies, and procedures within DIT. Of vital importance are cross-team processes to ensure streamlined communication and efficient timelines with the Business Office. This position will report to the Assistant Director of Finance and HR within the Business Support Services unit.

Minimum qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university

Experience: 

• 5+ years of demonstrated process/financial experience in industry or academic settings
• Experience supervising employees
• Experience executing business process improvements

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Superior analytical skills, logic and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated success dealing with ambiguity and ability to learn on the fly to understand and solve new problems
• Ability to effectively communicate verbally and written in a manner which is clear, logical and consistent
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to interact at all levels of the organization
• Ability to effectively work as a team and independently
• Excellent customer service
• High level proficiency in Excel

Preferences:

EDUCATION

Masters degree/Graduate classes in accounting, business administration, finance, or related field

EXPERIENCE

Experience with financial audits

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

- Experience with higher education - Experience at the University of Maryland

Additional information: 

Benefits Included:

• Medical, dental , and vision coverage designed to help you and your family live a healthy lifestyle.
• Flexible work opportunities
• UMCP Tuition Remission for employees, and their dependents to grow and achieve greatness.
• Generous paid time off package  to address work/life balance and maintain well-being.
• Retirement Benefits created to aid employees in reaching future retirement goals.
• And many more…

Salary range is in the low $100,000s. **This position does not provide sponsorship for Visas.

Physical demands: 

This position functions in an office environment. Must be able to work quickly and effectively under stress and pressure in emergencies, as well as react calmly in stressful situations. May need to work some evenings/weekends to meet deadlines.

Best consideration date: 12/07/2022 or open until filled

Please apply at: https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/102026 

Vaccine protocol: The University of Maryland has made the safety of our students, faculty and staff, and our surrounding communities a top priority. As part of that commitment, the University System of Maryland (USM) recently announced that students, faculty, and staff on USM campuses this fall, including UMD, are required to be vaccinated against COVID. As a prospective and/or a new employee at UMD, you will be required to comply with the University’s vaccination protocol. Proof of full vaccination will be required before the start of employment in order to work at any University of Maryland location. Prospective or new employees may seek a medical or religious exemption to the vaccination requirement at return.umd.edu and must have an approved exemption prior to the start of their employment. Failure to provide proof of vaccination or to obtain approval for a medical or religious exemption will result in the offer of employment being rescinded.

Background Check: Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information reported by the background check will not automatically disqualify you from employment.

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