University of Arizona Hiring for Business Administrator at Tucson, AZ  Full Time

Are you looking for a new challenge, to push yourself, and for great career growth opportunities? Do you enjoy working with financial data, but also love being part of a highly collaborative team that works on difficult and important work? Then consider joining the Business Affairs Finance team as our next Business Administrator in support of the Division of Human Resources!

Business personnel on the Finance Strategy & Solutions team within Business Affairs successfully manage unit budgets, finances, and complex business and financial matters. Members of this team strive to provide excellent business support to administrators, staff and student employees in the units we partner with to accomplish the university mission. This position will support the Division of Human Resources’ financial needs while also collaborating within the larger finance community of Business Affairs. A successful candidate will apply general business theory and principles in the daily operations of the HR business center. The position will work with the Assistant Director to ensure goals and objectives are accomplished in accordance and within established policies, procedures, and priorities.

Outstanding UA benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; UA/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; state and optional retirement plans; access to UA recreation and cultural activities; and more!

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Duties and Responsibilities:

• Independently manage and control the day to day accounting, budgeting, analyzing, reporting and other financial functions to ensure the financial integrity of the division of human resources.
• Complete financial forecasting, planning and modeling of finances in line with the university fiscal calendar and deadlines.
• Establish efficient business practices and keep up to date with policies, regulations and procedures.
• Process financial transactions including but not limited to disbursement vouchers, distributions of income & expense, purchase orders, payment requests, cash receipts, account maintenance transactions and internal billings.
• Complete job and employee data changes in university systems.
• Provide specialized or general analysis support of accounting functions mainly of expenses, payroll costs, budget availability and commitment tracking.
• Review monthly analytical reports of account expenditures and prepare corrections needed prior to providing financial reports.
• Reconcile purchasing card transactions, coordinate receipts for upload and records retention purposes.
• Reconcile accounts monthly and provide reports with findings.
• Maintain financial documentation and electronic file storage.
• Perform all university required month-end and fiscal-end responsibilities
• Advise employees on policies, procedures, and processes, ensure compliance where possible.
• Respond to financial queries with internal and external constituencies
• Coordinate travel purchases, reimbursements, authorizations and expense report processing with required documentation
• Coordinate and prepare UA Foundation financial forms and documentation.
• Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):

• Knowledge and use of business principles, theories and concepts.
• Knowledge of job functions, industry practices and standards.
• Excellent team-building skills, good communication skills, demonstrate honesty and integrity, as well as being flexible and adaptable to a fast-paced and evolving environment.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent advanced learning attained through professional level experience required.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience is required.