Business Manager - Florida Channel

Overview

Job Title: Business Manager - The Florida Channel

Location: Tallahassee, FL

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full-Time

Job : 62009

Department: The Florida Channel

• Responsible for managing all accounting and budgetary functions of the annual budget process from formulation/preparation to implementation and maintenance. Ensures sound financial management and compliance; implements quality control measures and effective operations while ensuring accuracy.
• Duties include but are not limited to entering all operating budgets, maintaining department balances, forecasting expenditures, controlling receipt and/or disbursement of funds, ensuring ledgers are reconciled to supporting documents, identifies and corrects invalid department-fund combinations, completes and submits required documentation.
• Serves as a member of TFC’s senior management team, participating in strategic planning and staffing decisions by providing financial information imperative to make key decisions regarding TFC’s long range budget planning and allocation of funds.
• Manages all pre and post award grant activities for TFC.
• Prepares all contract and grant documents, budgets and proposals for submission to SRA, RAMP and FLDOE. Obtains internal and external approvals. Performs reviews, reconciliations and analysis of contract and grant budgets to ensure accuracy of financial transactions and compliance with University regulations, federal and state award terms and conditions.
• Serves as point of contact for FLDOE and compiles/submits activity reports.
• Serves as point of contact with SRA, The Budget Office, and the Controller’s Office on all financial issues.
• Manages invoicing, POs and accounts payable for TFC. Reviews and submits to The Executive Director or other personnel for approval prior to payment.
• Prepares and analyzes budgetary and financial reports.
• Reviews policies and procedures for assisting in the effective management and administrative direction of staff and budgetary resources to determine new trends and recommends, develops and implements new procedures as required.
• Serves as a backup for entering personnel appointments, travel requests/authorizations and expenditures.
• Primary focus on fiscal and budgetary experience.

• A Bachelor's degree and two years of experience; or a high school diploma or equivalent and six years of experience. (
  
  Note:
  
  a combination of post high school education and experience equal to six years.)
• A valid State of Florida or Georgia Driver’s License or the ability to obtain prior to hire.

Prior University experience.

The Florida Channel - located in Tallahassee, FL - produces 24/7, year-round coverage of all three branches of state government. Programming includes gavel-to-gavel coverage of a wide variety of state proceedings, along with documentary and public affairs programming covering issues of interest and importance to all Floridians. The programming is distributed to the public via satellite to stations/affiliates and is also available through a variety of video streaming services.

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