Sr. Manager, Finance

CORE JOB SUMMARY

The Senior Manager, Finance leads and supports the organization’s financial activities such as forecasting, budgeting, strategic planning, and treasury with the goal of enhancing profitability and cash flow management. Further, the Senior Manager, Finance oversees department staff to ensure that activities are always compliant with applicable rules and regulations.

• Works with Wellspring or equivalent, the OTT database, to manage financial aspects of patenting and licensing.
• Manages and prepares the departmental budget, including revenue and operational expenses.
• Compiles and analyzes financial information, develops integrated revenue/expense analyses for management.
• Forecasts future OTT revenue and expenses based on office productivity set by upper management, performs reconciliation of internal accounts, projects business cash flows.
• Reports quarterly to management on variances from the established budget, and the reasons for those variances.
• Prepares financial forms (IDRs, BEFs, Purchase Orders, work orders, check requisitions, etc., for department), processes and submits invoices for payment.
• Ensures proper payments are received (correspond w/non-compliant stakeholders) – specifically confirm that licensees are complying with the obligations of their license by comparing payments to quarterly reports or on-line information for company sales performance and/or business milestone performance.
• Distributes and processes all incoming legal invoices for payment.
• Processes intake of royalty distribution payments, monitor payments to be received in compliance w/agreements, calculate and distribute royalties to principal investigators and departments according to royalty distribution policy.
• Analyzes, maintains, manages and reviews internal finance systems in accordance with administrative internal processes, managing intellectual property database (Wellspring or equivalent) and financial and budgeting software.
• Prepares and submits deposits to medical finance office.
• Conducts payable and receivable invoicing.
• Responds to internal/external customer inquiries related to annual revenue tax reports, AUTM reports, variance reports, final invention statements.
• Advises management of unusual trends, funding levels and expenditures, assists with budget development by compiling information to support projected expenditures in specific areas such as operating costs or travel costs.
• Assists with reporting to the federal government in relation to grant supported inventions (iEdison updates).
• Engages in ongoing cost reduction analyses in all areas of the department.
• Engages in benchmarking studies to establish areas of potential operational improvement.
• Reviews data and accounting processes to determine compatibility with University financial systems, provide recommendations as needed.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance or business required. Master’s degree preferred.

Experience: Minimum 7 years of relevant finance experience required. Appropriate combination of relevant education and/or experience may be considered.

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes:

• Experience with financial management systems, such as Tidemark and Workday preferred.
• Experience working with databases.
• Knowledge of business and management principles.
• Ability to direct, manage, implement, and evaluate department operations.
• Ability to establish department goals, and objectives that support the strategic plan.
• Ability to effectively plan, delegate and/or supervise the work of others.
• Ability to lead, motivate, develop, and train others.

Under the guidance of the Director, Technology Transfer, the Sr. Finance Manager, is responsible for the development and maintenance of the annual budgets and business plans for U Innovation, which includes the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), The Launch Pad (TLP), and Cane Angel Network (CAN). Additionally, the Sr. Finance Manager performs financial analyses for the department’s monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial reports;

determines the cause of any significant variances from budget; and presents and discusses findings with…