Financial Manager, Administrative Regional Team

Join the College of Letters & Science (L&S) for an exciting role as a Financial Manager with a team of other finance champions. Youll have an opportunity to make a positive impact by supporting department administrator(s) towards the best utilization of financial resources while ensuring compliance with all relevant Universities of Wisconsin State of Wisconsin and federal regulations and policies and procedures. This is a new initiative with an evolving team as the college implements Administrative Transformation Program (ATP) within L&S. The role is perfect for trailblazers passionate about building effective relationships while applying equitable practices that foster a community of belonging. There are multiple openings on the new team and we encourage you to review and apply to all of the positions.

Under the general direction of the Associate Dean for Innovation and Strategic Budgeting the

Financial Manager will have the following key functions:

• Manage the efforts of a team of finance in a collaborative way that fosters innovation and supports team development and success.
• Provide expertise facilitate training coordination and workload management across the team.
• Serve as key point of contact and partner for department administrators

Followingan initialonboarding period this position will have remote work flexibility up to3days per week and will work onsite a minimum of2days per week.

• 20% Facilitating and sharing unit or organizational budgets and large budget projections including budget planning policies controls procedures forecasts and analysis

• 10% Recommends interprets disseminates and implements unit-focused fiscal policies and procedures ensuring compliance with established rule regulations and financial guidelines

• 20% May exercise 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 FTE or equivalent employees

• 10% Identifies verifies and audits financial charges credits and authorizes payments

• 5% Participates in the development maintenance and monitoring of automated financial information systems

• 5% Serves as a subject matter expert to unit leadership regarding financial operations status and reporting and recommends process improvements

• 20% Plans directs and engages in financial and/or accounting operations for multiple areas; coordinates data management budget preparation and management and financial reporting efforts

• 10% Analyzes financial information and makes recommendations to unit leadership

College of Letters & Science Administration - Finance

L&S is the heart of UW-Madison and home to a tremendous breadth and depth of departments and degree-granting programs in the humanities; natural physical and mathematical sciences and the social sciences. Learn more at .

The expected salary range for this position is $80000 up to $106000 for highly experienced candidates. Actual pay within this range will depend on experience and qualifications.

Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation holidays and sick leave; competitive insurances and savings accounts; and retirement benefits. Please review the summary of benefits for more information.

• 4 years of experience in accounting finance and/or budgeting/forecasting including experience using financial systems software and tools
• Experience fostering and maintaining collaborative relationships with key stakeholders such as department administrators supervisors staff and college & campus partners
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills with an ability to interpret analyze and summarize financial data
• Strong verbal and written communication administrative and organizational skills
• Demonstrated commitment to customer service excellence and a history of offering responsive and solution-oriented assistance
• Evidence of using sound judgement and discretion in applying and interpreting laws rules policies and procedures
• Experience with improving processes managing change and/or applying systems thinking to work

• Direct supervisory experience or equivalent experience leading/managing a team
• Experience offering guidance outreach and monitoring for compliance regarding complex fiscal policies in higher education governmental or other highly regulated setting
• Experience with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system such as PeopleSoft or Workday

Bachelors Degree preferred; Accounting Business Management or a related field preferred

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Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States a lawful permanent resident a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.

The application deadline is 11:59pm on October 11 2026.

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