Budget Director

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Portland Community College is the largest post‑secondary institution in Oregon and the 19th largest in the nation, serving approximately 80,000 full‑ and part‑time students. With four comprehensive campuses, five workforce training and education centers, and 200 community locations in the Portland metropolitan area, our unique role is to make high‑quality education accessible to everyone, creating opportunities for our students and contributing to the economic development of our community.

Under the direction of the Vice President of Finance, the Budget Director manages the day‑to‑day operations of the Budget Office. Provides long‑range budget planning and compliance, detailed budget process training, and guides the implementation of the budget workstream and integration with the Finance and Human Resources components in the new Workday ERP system.

• Experience leading system improvements and developing best practices during the implementation of a new ERP budgeting system, from design through go‑live.
• Extensive experience creating and maintaining budgets within Workday, while developing improved business processes and customized reporting solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in making budget presentations to governing Boards and other internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in development and implementation of budget reductions or reallocations. May be actual or policy exercise.
• Experience managing a college or university budget office.
• Knowledge of Oregon higher education policy and Oregon budget law.

• Develops, manages, supervises, and monitors the preparation of the College’s annual budget. Completes supplemental budgets, mid‑year budget adjustments, special financial analysis, and manages and provides long‑term financial plans, projections, and forecasts.
• Provides budget updates and reports to the Board of Directors.
• Encourages innovative budget funding and resourcing options.
• Makes recommendations to the Associate Vice President of Finance on procedure or process changes and improvements.
• Oversees the budget format and the preparation of the budget by all departments including redesign of budget and reporting systems.
• Provides technical and complex analysis using advanced data analysis tools and software to prepare reports on the College’s budget.
• Ensures budget development and activities align with and support the strategic priorities of the College.
• Responsible for the preparation and publication of the budget calendar, budget appropriation by fund detailed schedules, budget resolutions and publication notices, assisting with the preparation of the annual budget message from the President, and the publication, communication, presentation and distribution of the College budget.
• Manages and maintains the budget and position control system and other related systems and budgeting tools; provides support to leadership in utilizing related budget tools and systems.
• Provides ongoing training, reporting and communications to budget managers.
• Designs, customizes, implements and supports internal and supplemental software to provide comprehensive ad‑hoc budget reporting tools to managers. Provides related project management for applicable financial projects.
• Prepares Board resolutions related to the budget; coordinates and supports budget updates, budget communications and budget presentations to a variety of audiences, and ensures timely delivery of the budget to the Board and College leadership.
• Plans, organizes, manages, and makes process improvement recommendations of budget process and operations of the Budget Office. Coordinates, implements,…