Fiscal Manager

Fiscal Operations Manager

Proudly standing as the nation's oldest HBCU, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania has been a stalwart and highly respected institution of higher education since our founding in 1837. For over 185 years our alumni have emerged as leaders and left their mark on the social, economic, and political history of Philadelphia, the surrounding region, the nation, and the world. Building on this legacy, the vision for Cheyney University is to become the premier model for academic excellence, character development, and social responsibility.

Here at Cheyney, we value scholarship, diversity, integrity, respect, and service. We are committed to maintaining a vibrant educational community that is dedicated to promoting scholarship and lifelong learning for its students, offering wide student access to resources to ensure an opportunity for all to acquire an education, encouraging freedom of thought and freedom from discrimination by ensuring a respectful environment, and provide outreach and service to external and constituent communities, demonstrating their understanding of the importance and value of service.

We're looking for exceptional individuals who share our values, embrace our mission, recognize our potential, and covet the opportunity to continue to move our historic University forward. CU proudly offers a positive and purposeful work environment; comprehensive employee benefits including health, vision, and dental insurance along with many wellness programs; generous retirement plans; a commitment to work-life balance including generous paid vacation, paid sick time, military leave and paid time off for most major holidays;

and a University mission to support employee personal and professional growth including a tuition waiver for self and family members, training and development, and advancement opportunities.

The Fiscal Operations Manager role supports all areas of fiscal operational excellence at the University. The incumbent performs advanced bookkeeping duties in recording, reviewing, processing, and controlling financial records and documentation ensuring the compliance of all new and restricted/ sponsored programs. Work involves detailed examination of a variety of records and documents for propriety, quality, and accurate conformance to established fiscal procedures and university policies.

The work is performed independently within a framework of prescribed accounting procedures and university regulations. The role operates within the Title III Part B Grant and works under the supervision of the Senior Director of ORSP/ Title III.

1. Serve as the primary business support for financial applications, ensuring they align with finance processes, compliance requirements, accounting standards, organizational policies, and evolving business needs.

2. Support current state assessment and analysis of all current and indigent grants, leveraging reporting, technology tools and dashboard techniques and systems to develop a portfolio health analysis of

3. Prioritization:
Ability to prioritize and manage tasks in order of importance. This is necessary in supporting the offices with sensitive tasks

4. Deploy project management skills, helping to manage many time-sensitive tasks. This role is designed to help improve productivity across the department and finance division, while meeting critical deadlines. Needed in the ORSP and Grants Office.

5. Lead continuous improvement to optimize finance workflows (purchasing, expense management, AP, Approvals, budgeting and reporting across the division of finance, in compliance with the continuous improvement goals of the Title III Grant

6. Ensure data accuracy and consistency across financial systems through rigorous, systematic data review and partnership.

7. Understand the Generally Acceptable Accounting Principles (GAAP), and apply to the organization of electronic records for the Grants administration office, SFS and Division of Finance

8. Exercise critical thinking skills by analyzing financial information objectively and make a reasonable, sound judgment across critical decisions needed for the operation of the Grants Office.

9. Problem solving skills: troubleshooting issues by identifying the problem and creating solutions. Evaluating options and implementing a plan to resolve the issue.

Team Building skills: as a leader, true commitment is needed to ensure personal and professional growth of team members. This includes developing positive relationships among the team members.

10. Serve as a supporting Certifying official for the review of all Grants submissions conducted by Cheyney University

11. Leverage expertise in all relevant Codes of Federal regulations, as well as state and regulatory body requirement, in order to support the Senior Manager of Restricted Accounting and the T3/ORSP Director

12. Serve to help prioritize fiscal processes in the renewals and close management processes for all Grants. This is necessary in supporting,…