General InformationPress space or enter keys to toggle section visibility
Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USAOnsite or Remote Flexible Hybrid
Work Schedule Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm
Posted Date 08/28/2026
Salary Range: $98200 - 214600 Annually
Employment Type 2 - Staff: Career
Duration Indefinite
Job # 32888
Primary Duties and ResponsibilitiesPress space or enter keys to toggle section visibility
The Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology is seeking a collaborative Director of Finance to provide strategic financial leadership for a dynamic, research-intensive academic department. Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and Director of Operations, this position oversees departmental finance, fund management, procurement, and research administration while leading a high-performing team that supports faculty across pre- and post-award activities. The Director of Finance partners closely with departmental leadership to drive financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and compliance, ensuring the effective stewardship of sponsored and non-sponsored funds and serving as the department's primary liaison with campus and funding agencies to advance its research, education, and clinical missions.
Annual range: $98,200.00-$214,600.00
Job QualificationsPress space or enter keys to toggle section visibility
Required:
- Supervisory experience overseeing a team responsible for managing Federally funded research grants from application to closeout.
- Minimum 7 years of related experience or training
- Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Knowledge of OMB Circular A-21, A-110 and A-133 policies and procedures regarding contract and grant management.
- Demonstrated ability in perceiving and defining cause and effect relationships between expenditure rates and budgetary projections.
- Utilizes general accounting practices, in particular the accounting policies and procedures of the University of California.
- Demonstrated PC skills, including proficiency with Excel and Microsoft Word
- Ability to handle high volume of work with changing priorities and constant interruptions to establish priorities and meet deadlines.
- Analytical skills to assess personnel and financial information practices and procedures, define problem, formulate logical solutions, develop alternative solutions, make recommendations, and initiate corrective actions.
- Demonstrated ability in multi-million dollar contract and grants pre and post award management.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Office of Contract and Grant Administration, Extra Mural Fund Management, and Corporate/ General Accounting policies and procedures.
- Demonstrated skill in supervising groups of employees, including hiring, training, motivating and evaluating performance.
- Interpersonal skills to establish and maintain a cooperative working relationship with administrators, staff, faculty and students.
Preferred:
- Expertise in fund accounting and performance metrics of research intensive health systems.
- Experience with the University's on-line system including transfer of funds (TOF), purchasing (BruinBuy), personnel and payroll (UCPath), expense transfers (NPEAR and SCTs), query database (QDB), effort reporting (ERS), etc.
