MANAGER, FINANCE & PAYROLL, Sargent College, Administration

Manager Finance & Payroll

Job Description

Boston University Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences is one of the countrys leading schools of health and rehabilitation sciences. Home to more than 1200 undergraduate and 575 graduate students Sargent College combines outstanding faculty and cutting-edge research to provide superb education and clinical experiences. The college has more than 35 on-campus research facilities clinical centers and labs. It offers top-ranked degree programs in occupational therapy physical therapy speech language and hearing sciences health science human physiology behavior and health and nutrition.

The Manager Finance & Payroll is a key member of an inclusive and service-oriented Finance & Administration team who provides high-level service and administration for payroll finance sponsored research administration faculty actions and labor contract compliance for the colleges academic departments research centers outpatient clinics and units as well as to college leadership. Reporting to the Director of Finance & Administration the Manager will administer payroll financial faculty actions and sponsored research services to the colleges diverse community of stakeholders. They will partner with college leadership to deliver financial analyses using data-informed management decisions. This position serves as the primary contact for Sargent College faculty and staff managing day-to-day payroll operations involving work across all central F&A units in the University including HR Payroll and the Office of Sponsored Research.

The Manager will manage all aspects of payroll for Sargent College and its dynamic community of 400 faculty researchers and staff. The Manager will be responsible for Sargents exempt semi-monthly non-exempt weekly and student weekly payrolls to ensure consistent timely and accurate administration of payroll transactions. The Finance & Payroll Manager will ensure payroll policies are adhered to and college-level processes are aligned with the University policies. The Manager will oversee human resource operations specifically for the colleges academic research job family including hiring onboarding appointments terminations determining equitable salaries and policies and procedures. This role will take the lead on the careful review and application of the L509 union contract relating to all new and continuing offers of employment to represented lecturers and will administer complex faculty actions in SAP managing accrual work schedules summer over base payments and maintenance of positions for initial faculty appointments in BU Works.

Required Skills

• Bachelors degree required
• 3-5 years of related work experience preferably in a financial role
• Ability to work with large quantities of data; strong analytical and Excel skills
• Proven experience working within an academic environment that supports sponsored research administration and federal award compliance including experience working with the Office of Research and Postdoctoral affairs.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex University business systems to execute HR processes in BUWorks in an accurate and timely manner. Experience managing SAP business systems is highly desirable.
• Strong organizational communication interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable with learning and troubleshooting new software systems
• Able to work independently and accurately with high attention to detail
• Must be highly organized detail-oriented time and deadline-sensitive and able to perform using tact and discretion in a deadline-oriented environment.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color natural or protective hairstyle religion sex age national origin physical or mental disability sexual orientation gender identity genetic information military service pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition or because of marital parental or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

BU conducts a background check on all final candidates for certain faculty and staff positions. The background check includes contacting the final candidates current and previous employer(s) to ask whether in the last 7 years there has been a substantiated finding of misconduct violating that employers applicable sexual misconduct policies. To implement this process the University requires a final candidate to complete and sign an authorization to release information after execution of an offer letter.