Analysis Skills, Balance Sheet, Budgeting, Capital Project, Channel Strategies, Communication Skills, Decentralized Operations/Management, Decision Support, Depreciation, Finance, Financial Aid, Financial Analysis, Financial Management, Financial Modeling, Financial Planning, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Financial Strategy, Forecasting, Healthcare, Investment Capital, Investment Strategy, Leadership, Operational Expenditure (OPEX), Operational Strategy, Operations Research, Process Development, Regulations, Reporting Dashboards, Research Administration, Resource Management, Stewardship, Storytelling, Strategic Analysis, Strategic Planning, Sustainability, Time Management, Trade-Off Analysis, Treasury, Tuition Fees
The University of Virginia (UVA), a leading public institution, seeks a dynamic and experienced leader for the Assistant Vice President for Financial Planning & Analysis. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer & Vice President for Finance, the Assistant Vice President provides strategic and operational leadership for multi-year financial planning, delivering forward-looking analysis, scenario modeling, and executive-level insights that guide institutional strategy, resource allocation, and long-term financial sustainability.
The Assistant Vice President for Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) serves as the University's senior FP&A leader, responsible for advancing a modern, integrated financial planning, forecasting, and decision-support function across a large, complex R1 institution and academic medical center-aligned enterprise.
This role represents a shift from traditional budget administration to best-in-class FP&A, emphasizing decision intelligence, strategic tradeoff analysis, financial storytelling, and institutional stewardship. Leveraging Workday and Anaplan, the Assistant Vice President will modernize planning processes, elevate analytical rigor, and ensure financial information is trusted, actionable, and aligned with institutional priorities.
The Assistant Vice President is a trusted advisor to executive leadership and the Board, translating complex financial dynamics into clear narratives that highlight risks, opportunities, constraints, and strategic options. Success in this role requires strong enterprise acumen, the ability to influence across decentralized environments, and comfort operating at the intersection of academics, healthcare, operations, research, and public-sector governance.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Assistant Vice President will have responsibility for:
Financial Strategy & Planning
- Lead and continuously evolve the University's operating, capital, and multi-year financial planning framework, aligning resources to strategic priorities while balancing flexibility, discipline, and sustainability.
- Advance rolling forecasts, reforecasting, and scenario planning capabilities, shifting the institution from static budgets to dynamic, decision-oriented financial management.
- Design and maintain an integrated enterprise financial model, incorporating operating performance, capital investments, balance sheet dynamics, debt, and fund balances.
Executive & Board Advisory
- Serve as a primary FP&A advisor to senior and executive leadership, providing timely, credible financial analysis that informs institutional strategy and major investment decisions.
- Develop executive- and Board-level financial materials, including dashboards, briefings, and presentations that clearly communicate assumptions, tradeoffs, and financial implications.
- Support tuition, fee, and affordability strategy, integrating academic priorities, market conditions, financial aid considerations, and regulatory constraints.
Institutional Integration & Stakeholder Partnership
- Build strong partnerships with academic, medical, auxiliary, and administrative leaders, positioning FP&A as a highly valued strategic partner rather than a compliance function.
- Establish consistent planning governance, assumptions, timelines, and methodologies across schools, units, and service centers while respecting decentralized operating models.
- Collaborate and partner with the Provosts Office to align financial goals, processes, and budgets.
- Collaborate closely with Treasury, Deputy and Controllership, Research Administration, Financial Aid and Provost Office to ensure alignment across financial disciplines.
Capital, State, and External Engagement
- Collaborating directly with the Office of the Sr. Vice President for Operations, which leads the development and implementation of the University's Major Capital Projects Program; develop processes whereby the Capital Plan informs the operating budget, including but not limited to operating expense related to capital projects, depreciation, and fund balance roll forward.
- Integrate capital planning with operating and long-range finan