Finance and Accounting Professional (Open Rank: Senior - Principal)

Job Summary:

This role offers a unique opportunity for individuals passionate about financial management within a vibrant academic and research environment. As a key financial strategist for the seven core facilities, you will play a pivotal role in forecasting costs, developing, and monitoring budgets, and ensuring financial sustainability. Your work will directly impact the advancement of groundbreaking research by providing essential support to core directors and the School of Medicine’s leadership. You'll engage in diverse and impactful projects, from managing complex budget reconciliations and financial reporting to coordinating construction funding for facility upgrades and implementing standardized invoicing systems.

Day-to-day, you will collaborate with core facility managers, faculty, the Dean’s Office, and external entities, ensuring accurate financial tracking and compliance with university policies. You’ll also manage grant expenditures, perform financial analyses for research laboratories, and oversee payroll funding distributions. This role not only supports the financial health of the department but also enhances the university's mission of fostering innovative research. If you’re looking for a position where your financial acumen can make a tangible difference, this is an exciting and rewarding opportunity to contribute to the university's success and growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Forecast and reconcile complex program and project budgets for core facilities, including preparing annual cost studies and financial projections.

• Manage and coordinate construction and remodel funding processes for core facility expansions and upgrades.

• Develop and oversee a standardized invoicing system for all cores, ensuring accurate reporting and timely payment collection.

• Coordinate procurement support for large equipment and manage equipment inventories and depreciation schedules.

• Analyze grant notices, manage sponsored project expenditures, and prepare financial forecasts for laboratory budgets.

• Work closely with the Office of Grants and Contracts to ensure compliance with granting agency policies and regulations.

• Provide quarterly or monthly financial reports to facility directors, including budget recommendations and potential issue assessments.

Work Location:

Hybrid – this role is eligible for a hybrid schedule of # days per week on campus and as needed for in-person meetings.

Why Join Us:

Our department conducts research across a wide biological scale for fundamental scientific understanding with applications to many disease contexts. The overarching goal is to reach a level of molecular insight that helps develop therapeutic approaches to disease.

As biochemists and molecular geneticists, we are amid an unprecedented time of discovery - our conception of the molecular biology of cells is going from the equivalent of grainy black-and-white to high-resolution technicolor. From deciphering the choreography of transcription complexes, chromosomes, and RNA molecules within cells to developing novel approaches to 3D molecular structure determination to understanding how viruses hijack a cell’s machinery and alter its metabolome, the researchers in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics (BMG) are at the forefronts of their fields both conceptually and technologically.

Why work for the University?

We have AMAZING benefits and offer exceptional amounts of holiday, vacation and sick leave! The University of Colorado offers an excellent benefits package including:

• Medical: Multiple plan options

• Dental: Multiple plan options

• Additional Insurance: Disability, Life, Vision

• Retirement 401(a) Plan: Employer contributes 10% of your gross pay

• Paid Time Off: Accruals over the year

• Vacation Days: 22/year (maximum accrual 352 hours)

• Sick Days: 15/year (unlimited maximum accrual)

• Holiday Days: 15/year

• Tuition Benefit: Employees have access to this benefit on all CU campuses

• ECO Pass: Reduced rate RTD Bus and light rail service

There are many additional perks & programs with the CU Advantage.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

Senior Professional:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, business, finance, accounting, or a directly related field from an accredited institution and 2 years of professional experience, to include financial accounting, post-award grant and contract management. Experience with financial forecasting and budget analysis.

Principal Professional:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, business, finance, accounting, or a directly related field from an accredited institution and 3-5 years of professional experience, to include financial accounting, post-award grant and contract management. Experience with financial forecasting and budget analysis.

• Substitution: A combination of education and related technical/military/paraprofessional experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree on a year for year basis.

Applicants must meet minimum qualifications at the time of hire.

Preferred Qualifications:

• One (1) or more years of professional level experience with post-award grant and contract management, including direct responsibility for managing NIH grants.

• Core service center financial experience.

• Higher education experience.

• Experience working with HCM, Finance, CU Data, Concur, CU Marketplace, and InfoEd.

• Payroll experience.

• Experience in providing professional and technical assistance to faculty, staff, and students within a higher education and/or medical education environment.

• Experience with or knowledge of University policies and procedures as well as University payroll processes and procedures.

Conditions of Employment:

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring sponsorship. We are unable to provide work visa sponsorship or employment authorization for this position now or in the future.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and orally.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees at all levels throughout the institution.

• Outstanding customer service skills.

• Demonstrated commitment and leadership ability to advance diversity and inclusion.

• Ability to find reasonable solutions to complex financial and personnel related issues.

• Strong technical skills, which include the ability to work with Microsoft software, programs, and applications (primarily Excel and Access); willingness to learn new systems is essential.

• Detail oriented and conscientious in the observance of deadlines.

• Ability to interpret and implement complex layers of policy.

• Ability to understand and interpret complex guidelines and regulations for salary caps, facilities and administrative cost calculations, and funding restrictions.

How to Apply:

For full consideration, please submit the following document(s):

1. A letter of interest describing relevant job experiences as they relate to listed job qualifications and interest in the position