Unit Business Officer

Employee Benefits available to NC A & T permanent employees include the following and more;

• Accrued Vacation and Sick Leave for Eligible Employees
• Community Service Leave
• Aetna
  - State Health Benefits of North Carolina
• NCFlex
  - Vision, Dental, Flexible Spending Account, Life Insurance and more
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Teachers and State Employees Retirement System (TSERS)
• Optional Supplemental Plans - 401k, 403b, 457b and 457
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Campus Recreation Center Discount
• University Bookstore Discount
• and more

This position may be eligible for a remote or hybrid work arrangement, consistent with university and state policies. N.C. A&T employees are generally required to reside in North Carolina, within a 2-hour commuting distance of their assigned duty station.

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Final candidates are subject to criminal and sex offender background checks.

Classification Type EHRA

The Unit Business Officer provides professional financial leadership for one or more assigned units or divisions of North Carolina A&T State University, serving as the embedded finance partner on the unit’s/division’s leadership team while reporting and remaining accountable to the Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance. Reporting to the VC for Business and Finance, the Unit Business Officer owns budget development, monitoring, forecasting, financial reporting, analysis, and decision support for the assigned units or division;

applies common standards, methods, and internal controls; and advises unit/division leadership on the financial implications of operational decisions. Depending on size and complexity, a Unit Business Officer serves a single larger unit/division or is shared across several smaller units. Authority centers on the budget and financial management of the assigned units; university-level central finance functions remain with the respective central offices, with whom the Unit Business Officer coordinates closely.

The Division of Business and Finance, led by the Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance / Chief Financial Officer, steers the university’s financial resources and provides the budget, accounting, treasury, procurement, facilities, human resources, public safety, and related services that sustain institutional operations. Within Business and Finance, this shared model provides centralized budget and financial management to the university’s schools and divisions through finance professionals who are embedded in the units they serve and accountable to the Vice Chancellor.

This model will deliver consistent financial practices, stronger internal controls, reliable continuity of service, and decision-useful analysis to Unit/Division leadership.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, or a directly related field and 4 years of progressively responsible professional experience in budgeting, financial management, accounting, or financial operations; or a bachelor’s degree in an equivalent field…