Legacy Staffing has partnered with a well-established university in Cleveland, OH to hire an Associate Director of Finance. This is a first shift opportunity with a competitive salary based on experience, education, and financial leadership expertise. This role focuses on providing hands-on leadership for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and daily fiscal operations within an academic environment. The Associate Director of Finance will partner closely with senior leadership to support strategic decision-making while remaining actively involved in accounting, financial analysis, reconciliations, reporting, and financial operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, year-end close activities, and long-range financial planning initiatives.
- Manage day-to-day financial operations, including journal transfers, salary adjustments, expense reallocations, and account reconciliations.
- Analyze budget-to-actual performance, forecasts, financial trends, KPIs, and significant variances.
- Identify financial risks, changing assumptions, cost-saving opportunities, and revenue enhancement strategies.
- Develop financial dashboards, management reports, and long-range financial models to support leadership decision-making.
- Create and maintain business analysis tools, including contribution margin, ROI, and program pricing models.
- Oversee general ledger activity and ensure transactions are accurate, timely, and compliant with institutional policies.
- Serve as a trusted financial resource for department leaders, administrators, and key stakeholders.
- Coordinate financial close activities with central finance, budgeting, research administration, and controller functions.
- Manage financial reporting for gift funds, endowments, endowed positions, and departmental allocations.
- Coordinate and validate financial and research data for external higher education surveys and rankings.
- Assist with strengthening internal controls and continuously improving financial reporting tools, systems, and processes.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field required.
- 7-10 years of progressive financial management experience.
- Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, accounting, financial analysis, and financial modeling.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including financial modeling, data analysis, reporting, and visualization.
- Experience with ERP financial systems such as PeopleSoft or a comparable platform.
- Ability to analyze large datasets and translate complex financial information into actionable recommendations.
- Excellent communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to independently manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Comfortable balancing detailed transactional work with strategic financial planning initiatives.
- High level of integrity, professionalism, and discretion when handling confidential financial and personnel information.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Experience in higher education, academic institutions, healthcare, or medical center environments.
- Experience supporting senior leadership with strategic financial planning and decision-making.
- Knowledge of financial reporting related to grants, endowments, and academic funding sources.
Benefits Include:- Affordable healthcare plans available for eligible employees
- 401(k) with 4% company match after qualifying period and participation requirements are met
- Weekly pay
- Temp-to-hire opportunities with top companies across Ohio
Legacy Staffing is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Contact Scott at 216-377-1109 or Scott@legacystaffing.com
for more information.
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