Reporting to the Associate Director of Finance, we are seeking a Financial Manager who will ensures the School of Education's Academic Programs are adhering to JHU controls, policies and procedures and also provides direction and resolution regarding difficult and complex issues. This position will have a heavy emphasis on financial modeling, financial analysis, and financial planning.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Financial

• Provides oversight in the development, preparation, monitoring, projections (enrollments, personnel and non-personnel expenses), and reconciling of academic and administrative budgets. Working closely with Chairs and Directors, develops financial reports for forecasting, supports administrative and financial needs of programs.
• Create financial systems, structures, and controls. Develop a financial report of operations to summarize the school?s financial performance.
• Develops reports and tools to measure and improve programs financial performance.
• Works closely with Department Chairs to develop and manage the annual and five-year plans for programs and budgets.
• Works with the Sr. Associate Dean for Finance and Operations, and Associate Director of Finance on both short and long-term programmatic strategic financial planning activities including providing key information for the five-year financial plans and developing forecast and financial projections based on financial strategy and resources that realistically reflect the School of Education's risks and opportunities.
• Management of Academic Memorandum?s of Understanding (MOU?s) and partnerships of Academic Programs.
• Monitors department budget for profitability.
• Designs and produces various reports utilizing institutional data to create monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
• Reviews and approves monthly accounts reconciliations and/or business plan activity, corrects errors, and informs the Associate Director of Finance of any problems or discrepancies.
• Develops strategies with the Associate Director of Finance for establishing and utilizing departmental discretionary funds.
• Liaison with academic staff regarding correct preparation of various forms such check deposits, online payments, travel reimbursements (initiated through Concur), shopping cart and other related financial transactions.
• Approval of Procurement Cards.
• Allocates resources and develops efficiencies to improve and maintain the services of the school and to ensure positive financial performance.
• Provides departmental information as requested by the school or external entities as requested and appropriate.
• Assists with compliance matters.
• Manage one direct report: Budget Analyst position.

Human Resources Administration

• Review of faculty and staff effort, this includes submission of E-forms and adhering to compliance of effort reporting.
• Assists with monitoring academic programs salaries, headcount, and other key HR data.
• Works with divisional HR to ensure timely preparation of payroll, maintenance of other personnel information, and compliance with human resource guidelines for faculty, staff and student workers.

Special Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Background knowledge of expenditure accounting and reporting systems, Pcard, etc.
• Knowledge of human resource administration.
• Significant experience in spreadsheet development and analysis.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs (specifically Word, Excel and Power Point) required.

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related field
• Five years related financial/accounting and financial management experience, e.g., planning, directing, monitoring, organizing, and controlling the monetary resources of a department, center, or unit
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond HS Diploma/Graduation Equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

• Working knowledge of SAP or other enterprise systems.
• Working knowledge of Student Information Systems (SIS) for reports related to enrollments, faculty teaching assignments, etc.

Classified Title: Financial Manager   
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PE  
Starting Salary Range: $73,300 - $128,300 Annually ($105,000 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: Monday-Friday 
FLSA Status: Exempt 
Location: Hybrid/Homewood Campus 
Department name: ???????SOE Finance  
Personnel area: School of Education 

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Johns Hopkins University remains committed to its founding principle, that education for all students should be grounded in exploration and discovery. Hopkins students are challenged not just to learn but also to advance learning itself. Critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and entrepreneurship are all encouraged and nourished in this unique educational environment. After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Faculty members and their research colleagues at the university's Applied Physics Laboratory have each year since 1979 won Johns Hopkins more federal research and development funding than any other university. The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Education and the Carey Business School are based at the Homewood campus in northern Baltimore. The schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing share a campus in east Baltimore with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Institute, a leading professional school of music, is located on Mount Vernon Place in downtown Bal...timore. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is located in Washington's Dupont Circle area.

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