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Director of Capital, Debt and Liquidity Management - Financial Planning and Analysis

The Director of Capital, Debt, and Liquidity Management reports to the AVP for Financial Planning and Analysis and supervises all the staff responsible for performing complex financial, analytical and budget formulation work involving all program and administrative areas of the University.  Both independently and in an interactive team setting, these staff members participate in the development of the University's capital plan and cash flow budget, the execution of all financing plans, recurring and ad hoc analyses of the capital plan, cash flow budget, debt financing, and capital market performance, presentations to senior management and the governing board, and implementation of related information systems and procedures. Duties include but are not limited to:

Capital Plan Formulation, Management, and Reporting

• Responsible for supervising all aspects of the capital budgeting process, including the integration of these budgets into the University's annual financial plan. 
• Work with stakeholders within each campus finance office and within the Office of Facilities to ensure the accuracy of all capital budgets and to develop a coordinated funding plan for all capital budgets within the overall capital plan. 
• Responsible for ensuring that all capital budget data is accurately entered and reported from the financial system or any other supporting databases that contain budget information. 
• Responsible for ensuring that the “tollgate” process for new capital projects is followed properly from a financial perspective, working closely with the Office of Facilities and campus fiscal officers to ensure that all projects initiated through this process are included in the capital plan, have a funding plan in keeping with financial plan parameters, and are properly maintained in the capital plan and financial system. 
• Responsible for directing staff in monitoring and reporting the University's financial performance when compared to the capital budget, explaining any variances, analyzing and troubleshooting financial discrepancies, and adjusting projections when necessary to address unanticipated conditions.  Examples of such monitoring and reporting are the ongoing monitoring of plant gifts, capital expenditures, and bond draws and analyzing their progress against the capital plan. 
• From time to time, the position will be required to prepare and/or make presentations on these reports to senior management and other parties within the University community.  Finally, the position is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of related depreciation budgets for new projects included in the capital plan.

Cash Flow Forecasting and Reporting

• Responsible for supervising the formulation of the cash flow budgets for the University's Operating Cash and Investments (OCI) portfolio, which functions as the University's working capital, through coordination with Treasury Operations, General Accounting, and the Investment Office, and integrating these budgets into the financial plan. 
• Responsible for supervising the performance of incisive analyses on ongoing cash flow results, including the monthly monitoring of cash flow against budget using both direct and indirect reporting methods, identifying and researching significant activity and trends, and creating comprehensive written reports (including tables, schedules, graphs, etc.) that clearly communicate relevant findings, and adjusting projections when necessary to reflect new information.
• Responsible for formulating and developing forecasting models that project ending cash positions for the current and future years based on the results of analysis of significant activity and trends. 
• Responsible for monitoring and forecasting significant cash flow activity between the endowment fund and the working capital fund, including reconciliation and forecasting of all significant activities that generate “interfund” cash transfers between the endowment and the OCI portfolio, and evaluating all requests for reinvestments and quasi-endowment funding against budgeted funding of these activities within the cash flow budget.

Financing Plan Implementation and Reporting

• Responsible for directing staff in the formulation, implementation, and ongoing monitoring and reporting of any financing plans that are required to fund capital projects or improve working capital balances. 
• Responsible for supervising the ongoing monitoring of the University's capital structure, including the monitoring and forecasting of relevant interest rates, evaluating conditions in the capital markets to ensure that the University debt structure is delivering the lowest possible interest cost to the University. 
• Responsible for supervising the monitoring and reporting on all debt agreements, including swap transactions, to ensure that all fiduciary and contractual obligations are met, including the filing of all required disclosure reports. 
• When the University requires new debt, either to provide additional funds or to refund an existing debt issuance, the position is responsible for supervising the preparation of all materials required to issue new debt, including RFPs and bond applications, all supporting schedules and analysis required to complete the debt issuance, and all analysis supporting the agreed upon structure of the debt issuance. 
• Responsible for supervising the coordination of any cash or financial transactions that may result from a new debt issuance with Treasury Operations and General Accounting to ensure that all parties have information needed to process transactions in the financial system or in the OCI portfolio. 
• Responsible for supervising the preparation of reports and materials that allow the rating agencies to provide ongoing monitoring of the University's credit, including the preparation of presentations given by senior management to the rating agencies, or the preparation of surveys and reports requested directly by the rating agencies.

Qualifications

• At least 5-7 years of progressive experience in a budgeting, general accounting, financial or planning environment. 
• Master's degree is preferred, but experience can substitute for differing educational background. 
• Experience in a higher educational environment is preferred. 
• Experience must demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationships between budgeting, accounting, financial and operating functions of complex organizations. 
• Strong working knowledge and experience in MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint required.  
• Demonstrated experience and strong proficiency with development of pro forma financial information and graphic representation of financial data is also required. 
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills; demonstrated understanding of financial and budgeting systems, and university operating and capital budgets.
• Demonstrated experience in handling sensitive and confidential information.
• Demonstrated experience and proficiency in producing reports and analyses incorporating financial information are also preferred.

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