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Academic Resource Senior Analyst

Requisition Number:

60120

Location:

Boulder, Colorado

City

Boulder

State

Colorado

Employment Type:

University Staff

Schedule:

Full-Time

Date Posted:

24-Oct-2024
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Job Summary

The Provost's Office at the University of Colorado is encouraging applications for The Academic Resource Senior Analyst position! This role in the Provost’s Office supports the Director of Budget, Finance, and Academic Resource Analysis, while also being responsible for specific Academic Affairs campus-wide functions and processes. The Academic Resource Senior Analyst provides professional financial and human capital analysis and budgetary support to the Academic Affairs leadership team including but not limited to, the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Academic Resource Management, Academic Planning and Assessment, and the Office of Faculty Affairs. The position also serves as a financial, budget, and data analysis resource and partner to the Division of Academic Affairs’ units to assist in interpreting and implementing Academic Affairs’ policies, optimize resources and enhance the Division’s budget and fiscal processes. The Academic Resource Senior Analyst reports directly to the Director of Budget, Finance, and Academic Resource Analysis.
The University of Colorado Boulder is committed to building a culturally diverse community of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to contributing to an inclusive campus environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Who We Are

The Division of Academic Affairs is led by the Provost and exists to nurture, foster and support the development of outstanding academic research and instructional programs on the University of Colorado Boulder campus to ensure our students are offered academic excellence in their undergraduate and graduate educations. 

What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be

Academic Resource Management and Analysis:
  • Serves as the primary data and analysis guide for the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Budget and Finance, Vice Chancellor for Academic Resource Management, Vice Chancellor for Academic Planning and Assessment, and Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs.
  • Collaborate with the Office of Data & Analytics on the development of cross-functional Academic Decision Support tools, engage in data synthesis and analysis, modeling, and project management for VCAA administrative support units and in concert with schools/colleges as needed.
  • Functional duties include programmatic and committee support including reporting and data visualizations for the Academic Resource Management Advisory Committee (ARMAC), the Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) program, and others as assigned.
  • Produces annual, quarterly, and monthly resource, budget, and financial reports and analysis, in addition to ad hoc requests from Academic Affairs leadership and campus administrators.
  • Leads the budget allocations and fiscal resources of Provost’s Office annual operating budget and temporary commitments, which includes tracking, providing annual reports, and forecasting future resource needs.
  • Assist and improve data gathering processes in an ongoing effort to continuously improve data quality. In collaboration with the Office of Data Analytics, develop dashboards and reports to communicate data in support of strategic resource decision making.
  • Gather, analyze, and clean data from multiple sources, including in- house data warehouse and external benchmark data sources. Improve and rewrite reports to maintain accuracy and compensate for changes due to increased data growth, business process changes, and new systems.
  • Analyze data to discover and interpret trends, patterns and relationships and present visualizations for senior leadership.
  • Proactively design and develop standardized reports based upon recurring or critical requests.
  • Responsible for financial reconciliation and reporting on the campus wide tuition remission budget.
  • Partner with the Graduate School and Bursar’s Office to support the processing for Tuition Remission that includes: maintain and collate data from various systems (HCM, CU-Data, CU-SIS, etc.); verify graduate student eligibility for tuition remission; allocate tuition remission to correct funding source/s; reconcile internal financial statements; and research discrepancies in the tuition remission process.
  • Continuously evaluate and redesign database queries to adjust for changes in tuition remission, and to validate data collection.
  • Assists managing the campus faculty roster, which serves as the campus source for faculty salary and position information, and is also the basis for school/college faculty scatter-plot salary analysis.
  • Ensure accurate faculty data and report roster information to multiple central campus administrative units including the Faculty Computer Purchasing Program in the Office of Information Technology, the Office of Data Analytics, and the Office of Contracts and Grants.
  • Coordinates and updates annual faculty search and recruitment and turnover workbooks for VCAA units in consultation with Academic Affairs Budget and Finance. This includes tracking faculty positions within the Critical Needs Hiring program.
  • Maintains recruitment tracking and startup funding database.
  • Supports the campus faculty merit exercise, which includes data review and validation, verifying allocation of merit pools, and creating summary reports.
  • Works closely and collaboratively with the Director of Budget, Finance, and Academic Resource Analysis to ensure consistency and alignment in finalizing the VCAA faculty roster for review and approval. Creates and verifies the accuracy of the annual salary upload table for faculty contract renewals submitted to Employee Services.
Academic Program Modeling, Planning, and Analysis:
  • Provide academic program modeling and develop budgets including scenarios that reflect changes (e.g. enrollment, revenue, expenditures) in academic programs in partnership with the Office of Budget & Fiscal Planning.
  • Provide financial reporting for new and existing academic programs.
  • Draft MOUs for new academic programs to document financial and operational processes along with performance expectations.
  • Lead and update new program budget templates, instructions, and step-by-step guides annually and to reflect in-year changes.
  • Track internal budget approval process with Dean’s Offices, Finance and Business Strategy and Academic Affairs.
Other Duties:
  • Anticipates, interprets and responds to a variety of constituents and issues with minimum direction and the highest level of discretion and judgment.
  • Implements and coordinates specific academic affairs’ financial budget projects and initiatives.
  • Completes ad hoc projects that may have contending and sometimes shifting deadlines.
  • Maintains and updates numerous Access databases used by the Provost's Office.
  • Supervises Office of the Provost budget and finance shared services student employees.

What You Should Know

This position will have a hybrid work modality.

What We Can Offer

The annual salary for this full-time position is $90,000-$95,000.

Benefits

The University of Colorado offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO Pass. The University of Colorado Boulder is one of the largest employers in Boulder County and offers an inspiring higher education environment. Learn more about the University of Colorado Boulder.

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What We Require

  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or related field.
  • Equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute.
  • Five (5) years of job related experience in accounting, finance or budget experience.

What You Will Need

  • Effective problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to take initiative.
  • Ability to anticipate executive needs for information and support.
  • Demonstrated proficiency with Excel.
  • Demonstrated understanding and application of internal control principles.
  • Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships among the Office of the Provost, inter-campus units, and external constituents including University of Colorado System Administration and other campuses.
  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills. Documented ability to handle complex, multiple and concurrent tasks.

What We Would Like You to Have

  • Master's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, public administration or related field.
  • Knowledge of administrative, budgetary, and fiscal principles and practices in an academic environment.
  • Working knowledge of PeopleSoft financial and human resources systems.
  • Working knowledge of Anaplan and CU-SIS (student information system).
  • Demonstrated knowledge of university, state, and federal rules pertaining to human resources, financial and budgetary activity, and sponsored research.

Special Instructions

To apply, please submit the following materials:
  1. A current resume.
  2. A cover letter that specifically tells us how your background and experience align with the requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities of the position.
We may request references at a later time.

Please apply by 10/31/2024 for consideration.

Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For consideration, please apply through CU Boulder Jobs.

In compliance with the Colorado Job Application Fairness Act, in any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Posting Contact Information

Posting Contact Name: Boulder Campus Human Resources

Posting Contact Email: Recruiting@colorado.edu