Division Finance Manager (Remote Opportunity)
Stanford University · United States · remote
The Division of Primary Care and Population Health seeks to serve our community through caring, learning, and innovation for the whole person through all stages of life. While engaged in practice and teaching, our faculty are dedicated to establishing new knowledge as the basis for future practice and prevention, and to the greatest extent possible applying that knowledge to improve care for all and reduce health disparities.
Core Duties:
- Manage the work of other employees, make hiring decisions,
provide coaching and mentoring, manage performance, contribute to
succession planning within area of responsibility.
- Establish overall objectives or direction for a unit, project, or
operational area. Plan, direct, and monitor all budgets for areas of
responsibility, and manage business operation and administration of a
functional unit or area; may lead a team in providing post award
sponsored research administration and services.
- Identify and resolve complex issues which may span multiple
areas, apply ingenuity and creativity to problem analysis and
resolution.
- Oversee report preparation and analysis requiring the
consolidation of multiple, complex financial and statistical data
points.
- Communicate financial policies and procedures; ensure accuracy,
completeness, and timeliness for management financial processes and
reports.
- Collaborate with other colleagues on cross functional projects;
contribute to solutions that may affect policy changes or the
development of new controls or processes.
- Participate in critical analysis of existing systems, policies,
and procedures; recommend and implement approved solutions.
- Contribute to projects in work area or unit; make decisions
determining approach to managing and completing processes.
- Represent the unit within the functional unit or school and to
external constituencies.
Minimum Education and
Experience
Bachelor’s degree and six years relevant experience or combination of
education and relevant experience.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
- Knowledge of Oracle or other business financial systems.
- Solid understanding of financial principles.
- Advanced oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to clearly and effectively present information to
internal and external audiences, and all levels of management.
- Strong analytical skills to review and analyze complex financial
information.
- Strong leadership and management skills with previous experience
managing people, delegating workload and providing direction/corrections
as necessary.
- Knowledge of property management requirements related to Stanford
or non-Stanford title of equipment and fabrications.
- Demonstrated competency in project management of a high volume of
work, some of which is cyclical.
- If managing sponsored projects, ability to manage post and pre
award administration for sponsored projects within his/her unit.
Knowledge and fluency of governmental regulations and completion of
Cardinal Curriculum level I and II.
- Knowledge of procurement needs, including sole-sourcing, cost
analyses, vendor requirements, and small business reporting.
- Demonstrated experience working successfully with PIs, their
administrative staff, and the office of sponsored research and external
sponsors.
- Demonstrated success in performing meticulous, high quality and
compliant work.
- Ability to interpret complex research and fiscal policies,
assimilate information from a wide range of resources and act like a
mentor and resource to others.