Senior Finance Operations Director - Office of Finance
UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
Directs the strategic planning, budget management, and accounting functions and ensures proper execution of fiscal activities of a large or multiple- academic, research, and/or organizational units. Directs all facets and phases of financial and administrative management in collaboration with the department head.
Responsibilities
- Manages and maintains +400 Dean’s commitments distributing approximately $40M of resources annually.
- Updates the annual general State revenue departmental allocation model and oversees the departments’ use of these resources.
- Works with department leaders to budget and spend endowment funds in alignment with donor intent and institutional polices.
- Coordinates the School’s annual inventory process, working with departments to complete all appropriate forms accurately and on time, and serves as the point-of-contact for the LSOM’s Finance Office inventory.
- Manages all non-practice plan staff salary and FTE change requests, ensuring financial sustainability, equity and appropriate staffing levels across all departments.
- Manages space renovation tracking and funding requests by department, coordinating with institutional and school leadership.
- Coordinates all recruitment and on-boarding for new and replacement department administrators.
- Directs the preparation of all Dean Office unit annual budgets, coordinating with each Vice Dean. Also directs fiscal year-end transactions for the Dean’s Office units.
- Prepares and submits required national, state and UT System annual staff and research surveys.
- Serves Designs, plans, develops, and implements the financial operations a large range of multiple academic and organizational units.
- Oversees operational and financial performance to ensure achievement of the department's goals and strategic initiatives.
- Drives operational and financial efficiencies and makes recommendations to optimize business performance.
- Manages variance analysis and forecasting activities assessing opportunities via business modeling, analysis and decision support to drive improved performance to align with the institutional mission.
- Provides data interpretation and education to ensure benchmark processes are interpreted and implemented correctly and are understood.
- Recommends strategies and solutions for analyzing and benchmarking various financial components of higher education.
- Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training employees; setting and adjusting pay rates and hours of work; planning and directing work; appraising productivity and efficiency, handling complaints/grievances and disciplining when necessary.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Critical Thinking Skills - Ability to accurately identify, define and analyze problems and situations, and develop innovative solutions by visualizing new potentials, and rational and intuitive processes.
- Leadership - Ability to attract and mobilize energies and talents; motivate teams to work towards a shared purpose and high performance; and to collaborate across the institution to drive continuous improvement
- Communication - Ability to influence various stakeholders in ways that effectively capture interest, inform and gain support.
- Project Management - Ability to coordinate the planning, execution and change management components of to achieve desired results while balancing time, cost and quality.
- Teamwork - Builds and maintains positive working relationships, within individual work groups and across departments, through open communication and intentional collaboration; to accomplish goals and objectives.
- Business Acumen - Demonstrates a clear understanding of all areas of the business associated with an academic medical center (education, research, clinical care) including the needs of various – customers and stakeholders (students, trainees, faculty, community), accreditation and regulatory compliance requirements, resources, industry trends, technologies and best practices, and uses skills in collaborating, planning, prioritizing, decision-making, and resource allocation to drive desired results.
Experience
- Ten (10) years of related experience, including at least three five (5) years of progressive supervisory experience is required.
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or related field is required.
- Ten (10) years of related experience, including at least three five (5) years of progressive supervisory experience is required.
Job Info
- Job Identification 6340
- Job Category Finance
- Posting Date 03/07/2026, 12:41 AM
- Locations Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX, 78229, US (On-site)
- Apply Before 05/05/2026, 11:41 PM
- Job Schedule Full time
- Organization M1000 - Dean Medical School, UT Health Science Center, UT Health Science Center