Finance & Operations Professional II, Social & Behavioral Sciences

Finance & Operations Professional II, Social & Behavioral Sciences

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Position Highlights:
At the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS), we work to investigate ideas, transform social conditions, and tell unheard stories. We prepare students, engage in research, and collaborate with community partners to address everyday challenges, be thoughtful problem‑solvers, and build solidarity with others across the world. We are rooted in the unique sense of place in our Borderlands region.

With more than 30 SBS majors, the College of SBS has a portfolio of competitive and highly ranked graduate programs. Seven of our graduate programs are nationally ranked in the top 25, including top 5 programs in anthropology, geography, political philosophy, and creative nonfiction. With a wide range of subjects to choose from, our students can explore subjects ranging from ancient philosophy to artificial intelligence.

The Finance & Operations Professional is a liaison between college leadership and business administration teams to ensure effective management of financial commitments, operational workflows, and data‑informed decision making. This position oversees the coordination, tracking, and communication of college‑level business processes, ensuring alignment between financial operations, project workflows, and institutional priorities. This position does not have supervisory responsibilities but collaborates closely with business administrators and staff across the college.

This position reports to the Assistant Dean of Finance and Administration and collaborates closely with the Dean’s Office, business administrators, financial and HR staff to ensure coordinated and efficient administrative operations.

• Act as the primary point of contact for the college’s business request management system (ticketing system) to ensure requests are accurately captured, assigned, and monitored through completion.
• Serve as a bridge between Dean’s Business Leadership Team and business administrative teams to ensure tasks, deliverables, and timelines are tracked and communicated.
• Provide reporting data on business transactions to Dean’s Business Leadership Team, including volume, time to completion, and accuracy.
• Assist in developing and refining ticketing system, workflows, and organizational structure to improve efficiency and consistency across units.

• Submit reporting discrepancies to Leadership Team by analyzing source data to ensure accuracy and proper system setup.
• Process a high volume of budget transactions to ensure departmental accounts reflect accurate, approved spending authority.

• Support financial planning processes by compiling and consolidating college‑wide budget requests and generating reports used for funding and approval decisions.
• Reconcile and validate data across multiple financial and administrative systems (Financial, Budget & Planning, HR, Anaplan, Excel).
• Prepare regular summaries and status reports for leadership regarding workflow progress, financial commitments, and operational trends.
• Support financial projections and reporting to ensure leadership has timely and accurate information for decision making.
• Ad-hoc data analysis and support to Dean’s Business Leadership Team for strategic decision making.
• Assist in the College’s annual budgeting process, including creation of new chart fields, deactivating unused chart fields, budget data entry (College Budget System and UA Budget System), creating College and Department level budget reports for use by the Dean and finance leadership, and reviewing budget to actuals at a college level.

• Create ad-hoc reports as requested by Director, Budget and Finance. Maintain Department dashboards in UA reporting system for all College departments.
• Edit and maintain customized reports in UA reporting system and Analytics.
• Ensure reports are accurate and updated as needed.
• System and User Access Maintenance:
  • Under supervision of Director of Finance, access…