Job No. 155152
- Job Title:
- Associate Director for Finance
- Employer:
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Location:
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Madison , WI
- Posting Date:
- 14-Mar-2025
- Description:
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Job Summary:
Established in 2007, the UW-Madison Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (ICTR) (https://ictr.wisc.edu/) provides training, funding, and services to help clinical and translational researchers from many fields grow their careers and increase their impact. We connect researchers with resources that increase the efficiency and equity of their work, while also shortening the time between discovery and clinical/community impact. ICTR is based at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) and represents a robust, multidirectional partnership between SMPH and the UW-Madison Schools of Education, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Veterinary Medicine; the College of Engineering; and the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute.
ICTR is supported through grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Wisconsin Partnership Program, and other sources that include UW-Madison campus partners. ICTR is one of more than 60 sites around the country supported by the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program of NIH's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.
We're recruiting an Associate Director for Finance to join our leadership team. This role supervises a team of accountants and grants managers within ICTR Central Administration. This highly collaborative team is responsible for managing a complex and robust research administration infrastructure supporting the entire lifecycle of pre and post award activities, training awards, degree programs, pilot research grants, revenue generating services, purchasing and payments, contracts, internal and external grant reporting, and compliance.
Reporting to the Administrative Director, the Associate Director for Finance serves as ICTR's primary financial contact and expert, providing strategic and operational leadership for the institute's financial team, processes, and planning. The Associate Director will oversee and guide the annual cycle of research administration activities; collaborate on day-to-day tasks and strategies; develop and implement effective tools and processes for financial management, funder compliance, and reporting; and ensure effective coordination and communication among team members and with internal and external partners. This position will also lead continuous improvement and change initiatives in conjunction with the institute's strategic plan, ensuring alignment with school, campus and health system expectations.
This work will include a substantial role in navigating the UW transition to Workday in 2025, planning for ICTR's next CTSA renewal application in 2026, and leveraging new cloud-based project management and reporting tools (such as Smartsheet and Power BI) to support next-level ICTR financial management, planning, and reporting.
Responsibilities:
Reviews, analyzes, and prioritizes requests for financial resources in multiple functional areas in support of efficient day-to-day operations of the department or business unit. Assists in directing the development of the annual budget by managing personnel and planning, scheduling, and guiding the work of financial staff. Reviews department work for compliance with reporting regulations, develops audit schemes, and recommends and implements fiscal policies to provide for compliant, accurate, and timely reporting within the department or business unit.
30% Plans, schedules and directs financial operations, budgets, allocations and compensation plans for a specific fiscal work unit
15% Recommends, interprets, disseminates and implements unit-focused fiscal policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with established rules, regulations and financial guidelines
10% Participates in the development, maintenance, and monitoring of automated financial information systems and accounts and ledgers for multiple functional areas
5% Directs the solicitation, review, and awarding of funds from grant programs and integrated research projects occasionally
20% Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
10% Serves as a key resource to leadership and staff in the department as well as a liaison to partners and stakeholders
5% Leads and executes financial analyses and makes recommendations to department leadership
5% Participates in day-to-day financial operations, budget development, reporting, and data management in collaboration with team members
Institutional Statement on Diversity:
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
- Contact information:
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Madison, WI 53706
- United States
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