Med Ad - Finance Service Ctr-420109

Accounting/Finance/Auditing

03/18/2024

05/13/2024

No

Permanent Staff (EHRA NF)

Business Manager 1

EHRA Non-Faculty

20062796; 20062794

NF0007961

Full-Time Permanent

1

40

North Carolina, US

$91,960-$100,645

04/15/2024

The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

This position serves as the Business Manager 1 for the departments in the School of Medicine. This position is part of the SOM Finance & Business Operations Service Center and will provide direction and consultation on complex financial management issues to assigned departments. The Business Manager will participate in reviewing business processes for finance and research as well as funding issues in the SOM. This position will focus on contracts and grant reporting and will work with departments to ensure that funds are utilized correctly. This includes the analysis of financial reports, monitoring contracts and grants data, and expenditure analysis, and overseeing budget reviews for all the clinical departments. This position requires excellent problem solving, analytical thinking, decision making, customer service, negotiation, and consulting skills. The work is complex and requires the preparation and execution of various budget types and all-funds budgeting across a large number of accounts and reporting formats.
The Business Manager will oversee the Budget Analysts who are responsible for all financial transactions from diverse funding sources, including state, state receipts, facilities & administration, contracts & grants, gifts (endowed and expendable), and other institutional trust funds. The position exercises judgment in selecting funding sources and managing the departments’ portion of financial commitments distributed to the units annually. Using extensive knowledge of programs, concepts, and practices of the units in the Clinical departments, the Business Manager guides, directs, and coaches unit employees regarding practices and interpretations on complex issues. They also identify and resolves issues with financial mismanagement or unfavorable trends, which may include designing or modifying specific accounting procedures and/or systems.
The position is also responsible for overseeing and performing budget reviews for all the Clinical departments, a process that must occur annually. The budget review process includes gathering data over five years, projections for current and next fiscal years. This position has to determine financial stability, allocations, spending, carryover, and faculty funding/one-time payments. Also, the Business Manager will examine faculty funding and send reports to assigned units.

First time manager with Masters and 5 years of relevant experience; or Bachelors with at least 1-2 yrs supervisory experience and 5 years of relevant experience

Excellent problem solving, analytical thinking, decision making, customer service, communication, negotiating, and consulting skills are required. Experience with preparation and execution of various budget types, including projecting and forecasting. Must possess excellent Excel skills. Knowledge and experience with the financial aspects of clinical trials and contracts and grants is required.

Experience with PeopleSoft preferred. University and/or health care experience is preferred.