Job Description

The Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, invites applications for a full-time Business Manager. Reporting to the Assistant Director of the Financial Information Office, the Business Manager provides daily oversight of the Haslam College of Business Undergraduate department's fiscal and administrative operations and manages the Financial Information Office's budget. Manages the business, financial, budgeting and administrative operations within the Haslam College of Business; manages the 4 staff members involved with maintenance of these functions.

Oversees the unit’s budget and accounts for research and non-research expenditures and income accounts, plus has full responsibility for all business and financial operations, including general ledger accounting, accounts payable and receivable, procurement, research administration, and FIO equipment inventory.

Oversees the Human Resource functions to include creating and modifying positions, appointment of new employees, promotions of current employees, and termination paperwork. Provides routine budget summaries. Provides guidance and communication to HCB departments on various endeavors and fiscal policy changes. Business Manager tasks include annual proposed budget preparation, regular fiscal operations, and HR functions. Official reviewer of IRIS transactions before releasing them to the department heads for approval. Responsible for the reconciliation of more than 200 E&G cost centers and 1,400 federal & private fund cost centers including the budget development, revenues, and expenditures, disbursing over $200 million dollars, which help achieve the college's strategic goals. Performs other related duties as required.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

10 years of accounting/financial/HR experience without a Bachelor’s Degree

7 years of accounting/financial/HR experience with a Bachelor’s Degree

Other Qualifications:

The business manager position is one of leadership that sets the tone of many administrative functions within the department. Essential skills include:

Communication and interpersonal skills sufficient for effective interactions with a broad range of individuals, including faculty

Excellent organizational skills

Excellent writing, grammar, and proofreading skills

Decisiveness and extensive problem-solving skills

Professional integrity, including a thorough understanding of confidentiality

Knowledge of standard accounting principles

Knowledge of IRIS

Competence with common office and database software

Valid through: 3/4/2021

About University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee is a public research university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, it is the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee system, with ten undergraduate colleges and eleven graduate colleges. It hosts more than 28,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". UT's ties to nearby Oak Ridge National Laboratory, established under UT President Andrew Holt and continued under the UT–Battelle partnership, allow for considerable research opportunities for faculty and students. Also affiliated with the university are the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, and the University of Tennessee Arboretum, which occupies 250 acres of nearby Oak Ridge and features hundreds of species of plants indigenous to the region. The university is a direct partner of the University of Tennessee Medical Center, which is one of two Level I trauma centers in East Tennessee. The University of Tennessee is the only university in the nation to have three presidential papers editing projects. The university holds collections of the papers of all three U.S. presidents from Tennessee—Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson. Nine of its alumni have been selected as Rhodes Scholars and one alumnus, James M. Buchanan, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics. UT is one of the oldest public universities in the United States and the oldest secular institution west of the Eastern Continental Divide.

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Total Experts:

Average Pay:

$147,105

Total value of jobs:

$2,795,000

% Masters:

56%

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