Management, Financial Manager, CFO

Vice President Of Finance And Administration

Reporting directly to the President and serving as a member of the President's Executive Leadership Team, the Vice President of Finance and Administration provides executive leadership for the College's financial services, procurement, facilities and capital planning, public safety, auxiliary services, and administrative operations. The Vice President serves as the College's chief financial strategist, ensuring sound fiscal stewardship, long-term financial sustainability, operational excellence, and responsible management of institutional resources.

The Vice President collaborates with executive leadership to align financial planning, resource allocation, facilities investments, and administrative services with the College's strategic priorities, enrollment goals, student success initiatives, and institutional effectiveness objectives. The Vice President promotes a culture of accountability, transparency, innovation, shared governance, continuous improvement, and data-informed decision-making while strengthening the College's capacity to fulfill its mission in an evolving higher education environment.

The position directly supervises the Controller, Director of Facilities and Projects, Director of Public Safety, Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Finance and Administration. The Vice President is responsible for the oversight and leadership of ancillary third-party vendors, including but not limited to college bookstore operations, ensuring compliance, service quality, and contract performance. Given the need for interaction with employees, students, and college community, this position requires in-person presence.

This position is eligible for telework.

Essential Job Functions:

• Executive Leadership & Strategic Planning
• Financial Leadership & Resource Stewardship
• Procurement, Contracts & Business Services
• Facilities, Capital Planning & Administrative Operations
• Public Safety, Emergency Management & Enterprise Risk
• Governance, Compliance & Institutional Effectiveness
• Board Relations & Executive Communication
• Organizational Leadership

Minimum Requirements To Perform Work:

• Master's degree required
• CPA certification preferred.
• Experience working in education required, with a preference given to individuals that have higher education experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in increasingly responsible positions in financial systems and operations, including successful fiscal, administrative leadership, and managerial experience. Preference for experience with strategic and long-term planning.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent Microsoft Office Software skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Familiarity with online Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System.
• Specific knowledge and experience in budget development, purchasing, accounting, accounts payable and receivable, investment of funds, state and federal funds, grants, cost studies, travel, revenues, expenditures, financial statements, insurance, auditing and related operational functions of the institution. Preferred knowledge of risk management practices related to fiscal and administrative functions, including public safety, emergency preparedness, facilities management, maintenance operations, and regulatory compliance.
  
  Familiarity with audit functions.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, leadership, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. Ability to multi-task, work independently, pay attention to detail, think critically, analyze data, adapt to changing priorities, and maintain confidentiality.
• Demonstrated ability to implement change, build consensus, establish and maintain cooperative working relationships, and gain confidence and cooperation within the College community.
• Proven ability to analyze complex data, develop financial reports for financial analysis, forecasting, trending, and results analysis.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.

Physical Demands:

• Position requires the ability to make daily walking inspections of campus operations
• Periods of light work may be required; lifting to approximately 35 lbs. occasionally
• Visual acuity appropriate…