Required Qualifications (as evidenced by an attached resume):
Bachelor's degree (foreign equivalent or higher) in an analytical discipline. Seven (7) years of full-time, directly related experience, with creating, analyzing, and troubleshooting financial reporting and managing complex projects. Five (5) years of supervisory experience in an assistant director role (or comparable) or above (this must include demonstrated ability to develop talent, manage difficult conversations, and design staffing plans). Two (2) years of experience with systems analysis, design maintenance or development. Experience with budgetary/finance/accounting practices and managing a comprehensive integrated budget and/or accounting enterprise software solution. Demonstrated process improvement experience. Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite. Ability to gather, analyze and evaluate complex information via business systems. Strong customer service orientation. Excellent interpersonal and communications skills. Ability to adapt to changing priorities.Preferred Qualifications:
Master's degree (foreign equivalent or higher). Financial business systems experience (e.g. PeopleSoft, Oracle). Experience with the administration of financial planning enterprise systems. Experience in higher education. Experience querying and/or data mining. Brief Description of Duties:
The Director for Budget Systems & Decision Support Reporting will be responsible for managing the planning of the application's development and direct both the BFP&A systems and IT Programming teams.

• Project Manager for the financial planning application:
• The incumbent is responsible for managing all aspects of this system including the implementation and on-going maintenance of the planning application. Manage the planning application's development and direct both the BFP&A systems and IT programming team's work to evaluate and implement new functionality to meet users' requirements. This includes defining & documenting requirements, testing and deploying across the user base. Support the design of the financial planning system, including modification or implementation of new systems/support. Continue to refine the "All Funds Operating Budget" working towards eliminating siloed financial data and improving the integrity of the data being input into the system. Manage internal/client relationships to ensure performance goals are achieved, proper support is provided, and users' needs are satisfied in a responsive manner. Conduct and document training for all planning system users; manage the content of the training manual (tactical guidance on use of budget system). Collaborate with BFP&A and OCM teams to create a budget manual (best practices), process documentation and user reference documents. Ensure the documentation is reviewed on an annual basis to eliminate outdated information. Collaborate with Systems Support, HR as well as Information Systems to extract, transform and load the all-funds data into financial planning system of record; include revenue, expenditure and employee planning figures for all appropriated funds, RF, SBF, affiliate hospitals and clinical practice. Ensure data validation for each data element for all budget entries using each fund's rules for allowable expense categories. Manage the security, targets, and assessment computations (e.g., overhead rates for IFR and clinical practice funds). Oversee the application and testing of maintenance packs and upgrades. Responsible for overseeing the technical conversion of the university's appropriated funds (State, IFRs, Dormitory Fund, Hospital, Veterans Home) budgets from the planning system to the SUNY financial system. This conversion is known as the SUNY Form 1 upload. A total of over $2 billion of planned financial activity in thousands of rows of data must be analyzed, validated, and correctly translated into the SUNY financial system's coding schema and distributed by account and object code for each department's financial managers. Translate and transmit the Research Foundation IDC budget data for the Office of the Vice President for Research. This critical function results in hundreds of IDC projects receiving their appropriate portion of the $50 million IDC financial plan for the new year. This entire financial planning process to establish the new year budget takes 8 months to complete; it commences in November for setup and configuration and ends in June [provided that the State and SUNY budgets are passed on time]. The incumbent works independently to collaborate with the appropriate key personnel to keep the project on schedule at every stage. The incumbent is responsible for solutioning functional gaps in the financial planning process. The incumbent is responsible for planning the integration of external elements into the budget / planning application. For example: capital & space planning; enrollment planning; incorporating other performance metrics as needed.

• Campus Budget Compliance Analytics:
• The incumbent is responsible for overseeing the review of all budgets and forecast entries within the planning system for reasonableness. Functional oversight of any new functionality, reports and processes which support the campus's financial managers and senior leadership team(s). Partner with Information Systems or the appropriate team(s) to address ongoing operations and maintenance concerns impacting the functional staff and/or I.S. staff. Actively participate in the Budget Planning Process, including the Budget Planning Committee. The committee is responsible for steering the budget formulation process and advising on long-term changes to SBU's budget policies and practices. The incumbent will play a pivotal role in translating and implementing the approved changes in our financial systems and databases. The incumbent is responsible for the creation and maintenance of planning reports to enable units at all levels to evaluate their data prior to the close of the budget development and forecasting processes. The incumbent is responsible for overseeing the technical framework for the position control analytics.

• Decision-support Financial Reporting:
• The incumbent is responsible for oversight of the continuous improvement of all the financial reporting produced in their area. They are ultimately responsible for the validity of all content and must ensure fiscal accuracy. Evaluate current reporting and suggest/create new reporting associated with the following: Standardized reporting across campus (includes budget to actuals). Compacts / financial performance metrics multi-year forecasting Scenario modeling Position control workflow and systems support Explore and recommend additional reporting avenues in other business intelligence (BI) systems. This may include (but is not limited to) dashboards, visualizations, etc.

• Staff Supervision:
• As the systems team has grown within the BFP&A unit, the incumbent leader plays a critical role in cascading responsibility and providing clear expectations to the next level of managers within the team. Responsibility includes oversight of training (both within the team and cross functional), establishing priorities and evaluating the budget systems of team members. Reviewing deliverables, mentoring staff in order to promote their professional development and creating exposure and opportunity for the team. The incumbent will create training opportunities while developing internal succession plans to ensure business continuity.

• Campus operating budget (Website Budget):
• Stony Brook University has transitioned away from the traditional Operating Budget book and moved to an operating budget to actual reporting that is housed on the BFP&A website. This website report contains the planned financials for the entire campus - every vice-presidential area, as well as Stony Brook Foundation (SBF), Faculty Student Association (FSA), Sponsored Research, the Clinical Practice Plan, and related hospitals. It compares the current year's actuals to the two most recent budget years. The incumbent is responsible to: Oversee and review the data extraction from the native financial systems across campus to produce this all-funds report. This entails consolidation and transformation of the financial data, following a strict definition of GL account hierarchies. Work with multiple colleagues across various offices to review, validate and provide narratives around the results of this data. The finalized content must be endorsed by senior leadership. This project is extremely time sensitive and must be completed and distributed by the end of the calendar year. This includes posting to the BFP&A website and conducting multiple layers of rigorous review as this is viewed by the campus community.

• Manage Budget Office databases:
• The incumbent is the key person in the office responsible for oversight of the various databases utilized by the BFP&A Office throughout the year to manage the campus resources. The incumbent is also responsible for interfacing with the other financial systems on campus and in SUNY. As the campus information systems become standardized on a primary platform, the incumbent is responsible for ensuring that the financial planning data contained (and reported from them) are accurate and accessible to BFP&A and all campus budget officers. This involves working with data warehouse programmers to create new user reporting for the office. The incumbent is responsible for oversight of the BFP&A reporting via various mechanisms. This requires a clear understanding of the business rules, the data being extracted, and the gaps that need to be filled via new reporting.

• Committee Membership & Other Responsibilities:
• Provide support to the Campus Budget Planning Committee. Active involvement in committees related to university planning, process changes/improvement and strategic initiatives (from a budget systems/architecture perspective). Lead the efforts for a budget/planning systems process improvement. Prioritize and direct budget and financial planning IT projects. Oversee the development and maintenance of dashboards/databases to use to efficiently respond to ad hoc requests from finance & university leadership.

• Campus Manager for SUNY Business Intelligence (BI) System:
• The incumbent partners with the University Controller to oversee the coordination of activities between the SUNY programmers and our local security administrator to ensure that user access is appropriate and compliant with campus policy. The incumbent oversees the development and dissemination of training content for our campus's 700 users.

• Other duties or projects as assigned as appropriate to rank and departmental mission.

Special Notes:
This is a Management Confidential position. This is a full-time appointment. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA. Minimum salary threshold must be met to maintain FLSA exemption.For this position, we are unable to sponsor candidates for work visas.

This position will remain posted until filled or for a maximum of 30 days. An initial review of all applicants will occur two weeks from the posting date. For full consideration, applications must be received before the initial review date. If within the initial review no candidate was selected to fill the position posted, additional applications will be considered for the posted position; however, the posting will close once a finalist is identified, and at minimal, two weeks after the initial posting date. Resume/CV and cover letter should be included with the online application.If you need a disability-related accommodation, please call the university Office of Equity and Access (OEA) at (631) 632-6280 or visit .In accordance with the Title II Crime Awareness and Security Act a copy of our crime statistics can be viewed.Visit our page to learn about the total rewards we offer.