Director of FP&A and Finance Business Partners

Job Description:

The hybrid-eligible Director leads a team of Finance Business Partners who support approximately half of the University's distributed departments and units to provide strategic, analytical, and relationship-driven budget and financial planning services. Together, the team delivers strategic and quantitative analysis on a wide range of financial strategy, planning, and policy issues, including objective analyses of unit financial performance and development of an in-depth understanding of its financial structure. This work includes managing financial deliverables, including the development and submission of sustainable unit budgets, forecasts, multi-year financial plans, financial reporting, and related deliverables.

Major Responsibility: Lead a team of Finance Business Partners who support approximately half of the University's distributed departments and units to provide strategic, analytical, and relationship-driven budget and financial planning services

Supporting Actions:

• Develop strong relationships with department and unit leadership and within central finance to collaborate on key financial planning challenges and opportunities.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of its financial structure and provide strategic and quantitative analysis on financial strategy, planning, and policy issues.
• Manage financial deliverables, including the development and submission of sustainable unit budgets, forecasts, multi-year financial plans, financial reporting, and related deliverables. 
• Ensure departments and units achieve their targets through regular support, discussion and independent scrutiny. 
• Serve as each partner unit's financial point of contact within the University and represent their interests and needs to the broader organization.
• Ensure financial processes, systems and reporting are continually enhanced to support the unit’s strategic goals and objectives.
• Develop and implement strategies for budgeting, forecasting, multi-year financial planning, financial modeling, variance analysis, financial reporting. Use these tools to effectively manage expenses, enhance revenue, and achieve other strategic goals and objectives.  
• Manage a team of 2–3 Assistant/Associate Directors and 8–10 analysts, including the potential for growth

Major Responsibility: Support the University’s central financial planning and management, including contributing to the development, communication, and management of the University's annual budget, forecast, and other financial planning processes

Supporting Actions: 

• Partner with the AVP of Financial Strategy and Planning and Director of Budget Planning and Analysis to set priorities that advance the University's central financial planning and management.
• Contribute to the development, communication, and management of the University's annual budget, forecast, and other financial planning processes.
• Provide strategic input and technical support to budgeting and financial system development, implementation, maintenance, and enhancement, along with training and support
• Frame key questions and develop recommendations to help inform decision making among University leaders.
• Analyze and evaluate budgets, forecasts and multi-year financial plans and prepare review materials for Chief Financial Officer, Provost, Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration, President, and the Corporation.
• Synthesize findings and determine short- and long-term ramifications for all stakeholders.
• Design and deliver presentations that educate University leadership on potential options, facilitating informal and formal dialogue as needed.
• Develop hypotheses and conduct analyses to respond to ad-hoc queries and strategic requests.

Major Responsibility: Lead special projects across a wide range of financial and strategic initiatives both within the Finance Business Partner’s portfolio and University-wide

Supporting Actions: 

• Partner with departments and project stakeholders on important strategic financial questions that require thoughtful problem-structuring and analytic capability and developing an understanding of the opportunities and challenges faced by the university, department or unit.

Major Responsibility: Leadership and team building

Supporting Actions: 

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight of a high-performing team of Finance Business Partners, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and professional growth through coaching, mentoring, workforce planning, and succession development. 
• Provide leadership determining the direction of the team’s priorities. 
• Support the creation and implementation of OFSP goals, strategies and priorities. 
• Responsible for management decisions, hiring, promoting and other.  
• Recruit new analysts as needed to strengthen and grow the team, as applicable.
• Promote an inclusive, diverse, and innovative work environment.
• Partner with other groups across the Finance Division, including the Controller’s Office, Treasury and Insurance, Gifts and Endowments, and Financial Services teams, to build a University-wide understanding of financial management issues that inform planning, reporting, and analysis.

Qualifications: 

• Grade 12: Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of 7 years of related experience.
• Grade 13: Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of 10 years of related experience. 
• Management experience preferred
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong technical skills, including data base management and spreadsheets
• Experience with Workday and Adaptive Planning preferred

The Office of Financial Strategy and Planning (OFSP) is seeking a skilled Director of FP&A and Finance Business Partners. This position will be filled as a Grade 13 or Grade 12, depending on the finalist's depth of qualifications, technical expertise, and relevant experience.

Applicants are asked to include a resume and cover letter.

All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Benefits of Working at Brown:

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