About the Role
The Chief Administrative and Business Officer serves as the senior administrative and financial management position, directing strategic financial management, administrative management, and risk mitigation for the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Responsibilities
- Oversee school-wide strategic initiatives that advance the school's mission and the University.
- Manage General and Administrative operations, including facilities, IT, human resources, and process improvement.
- Direct financial and budgetary management.
- Oversee compliance and risk management.
- Formulate and implement administrative policies and operational aspects of financial strategic planning and business operations.
- Manage human resources, capital projects, facilities, information technology, quality assurance, and administrative services.
- Partner with functional units for subject matter expertise.
- Manage financial aspects of online programs and the growth of certificate and executive education programs.
- Represent the Dean in decision-making capacities with University central administrative offices.
- Collaborate with leaders and faculty to ensure administrative policies, procedures, systems, and resources support academic priorities.
- Provide leadership in financial and budgetary matters, including strategic planning, financial analysis, reporting, and stewardship.
- Oversee financial systems and provide guidance on approvals and other financial matters.
- Monitor expense spending against plans to ensure resources meet strategic objectives.
- Serve as liaison to central university offices for budget, treasury, accounting, payroll, risk management, and procurement.
- Ensure an appropriate risk management framework to protect university assets.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Demonstrated fiscal responsibility and comprehensive knowledge of accounting, financial reporting, and analysis.
- Demonstrated experience with complex strategic planning and resource allocation.
- Demonstrated experience in managing relationships and influencing outcomes.
- Demonstrated creativity and effectiveness in a complex organization.
- Demonstrated success in developing people and organizations.
- Strong cost management experience.
- Thorough working knowledge of finance, fund accounting, and financial reporting analysis.
- Demonstrated ability preparing budgets, forecasts, and financial plans.
- Ability to integrate multiple complex pieces of financial information to identify themes, trends, and issues.
- Expertise in a highly regulated organization.
- Ability to manage costs and achieve financial results in line with a committed budget.
- Well-developed managerial, decision-making, planning, organizational, problem-resolution, and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage people and inspire commitment and performance.
- High-level strategic planning skills.
- Visionary with ability to influence.
- Ability to generate a strategic vision and influence people to achieve it.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to adapt communication style to address needs at all levels.
- Ability to negotiate skillfully with internal and external constituents.
- Ability to anticipate business environment changes and proactively manage change.
- Strong computer skills including Excel.
- Solid understanding of internal control concepts and implementation in a complex business environment.
Skills
- Finance
- Fund accounting
- Financial reporting analysis
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Financial planning
- Cost management
- Strategic planning
- Resource allocation
- Relationship management
- Influencing outcomes
- Creativity
- Effectiveness in complex organizations
- People development
- Organizational development
- Managerial skills
- Decision-making
- Planning
- Organizational skills
- Problem resolution
- Leadership
- Communication skills (written and oral)
- Negotiation skills
- Change management
- Excel
- Internal control systems
Location
- New York University
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- USD $325,000.00 to USD $375,000.00
Benefits
- In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is USD $325,000.00 to USD $375,000.00.
- New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and organizational considerations when extending an offer.
- This pay range represents base pay only and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, clinical compensation, or other items.
- NYU aims to be among the greenest urban campuses in the country and carbon neutral by 2040.
About the Company
- New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as, market and organizational considerations when extending an offer.
- NYU aims to be among the greenest urban campuses in the country and carbon neutral by 2040.
