Business Manager Tickle College of Engineering UTK
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Job Location:
Knoxville, TN - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
16 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Business Manager provides leadership and oversight for fiscal management human resources and office operations within the unit. This position ensures compliance with university state and federal policies while maintaining sound business and administrative practices. Responsibilities include financial approvals budget management personnel oversight and coordination of data and reporting used in accreditation audits and academic reviews. The Business Manager serves as the primary resource for financial and HR policies and assists faculty and leadership with sponsored project activities and data management processes.
Responsibilities
Assist the department head/director in overseeing and administering fiscal office human resource publication and data management responsibilities. Provide leadership and oversight to ensure compliance with university state and federal policies and to maintain fiscal and administrative integrity. Approve financial and accounting transactions prepare and analyze annual budgets monitor expenditures and represent the unit at meetings and budget hearings. Supervise and coordinate accounting and bookkeeping activities serve as a resource for financial policies and procedures and assist faculty in the preparation and submission of research budgets justifications and financial reports.
Approve all personnel actions for faculty staff and students within the unit. Serve as a resource for HR policies and procedures assist with hiring processes supervise staff and student assistants coordinate HR-related training conduct performance evaluations and resolve HR-related issues.
Oversee the daily operations and appearance of the unit office. Assign and balance workloads ensure cross-training provide staff training and maintain compliance with university policies. Assist with staff recruiting evaluations and discipline as warranted. Maintain housekeeping and coordinate with Facilities Services for furnishings repairs and space needs.
Coordinate and maintain financial and student databases for accreditation and program reviews. Prepare reports on budget expenditures research productivity and projections for leadership decision-making. Collect and analyze data for budget preparation audits and space inventories. Compile and maintain scholarship and fellowship information award records and databases for graduate students and office assignments.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Education:
- High School diploma or GED
Experience:
- Six years of accounting and HR Management or business management experience.
- Minimum of two years of supervisory experience
Knowledge Skills Abilities:
- Knowledge of standard accounting principles.
- Professional integrity including a thorough understanding of confidentiality.
- Communication and interpersonal skills sufficient for effective interactions with a broad range of individuals including faculty.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Excellent writing grammar and proofreading skills.
- Decisiveness and extensive problem-solving skills.
- Competence with common office and database software.
- Ability to multi-task.
- Ability to lead a small office team.
Preferred Qualifications
Education:
Associate degree with four years of accounting/business management experience; or Bachelors degree with two years of accounting/business management experience in a related field.
Experience:
Project management or administration of federally funded projects including experience with project budgets financial reporting and forecasting.
Financial work history at a comprehensive research university.
Knowledge Skills Abilities:
Experience with Oracle/DASH (ERP) Award Management software (Research Admin) Student Information System (SIS)
Work Location
- Location: Knoxville TN
- Hybrid
Compensation and Benefits
- UT market range:MR 11
- Find more information on the UT Market Range structurehere
- Find more information on UT Benefitshere
Application Instructions
To express interest please submit an application with the noted below attachments.
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- List of 3 Professional References
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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