University of California Los Angeles

Senior Fund Manager

University of California Los Angeles • $100K — $120K *
Los Angeles, CA 90011In-Person
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of Fund Manager experience with comprehensive skills in financial planning and contracts.
  • Proficient in collaborating with academic and administrative staff to address financial challenges.
  • Deep knowledge of university accounting policies and internal controls.
  • Familiarity with university regulations and industry accounting guidelines.
  • Strong ability to analyze financial data using spreadsheet applications, particularly Microsoft tools.
  • Background in managing multiple complex budgets and funding sources.
  • Experience with procurement and travel reimbursement systems.

Responsibilities

  • Manage all aspects of contract and grant finances, ensuring timely closeouts.
  • Collaborate with faculty and staff to find solutions to financial issues.
  • Advise staff on university accounting practices and procedures.
  • Prepare and analyze detailed financial reports using statistical data.
  • Coordinate projects from inception through to execution while maintaining clear communication.
  • Maintain confidentiality and manage sensitive financial information.
  • Train department members in effective financial management and best practices.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance starting on day one.
  • Generous vacation and sick leave policies.
  • Retirement plan options with employer contributions.
  • Access to professional development and training resources.
  • Support for work-life balance with flexible work arrangements.
Full Job Description
Position Summary

Seeking a proactive, adaptable, and highly organized Senior Fund Manager who thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. This role requires a collaborative professional with strong communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while supporting a broad range of research and financial activities. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, resourceful, customer-service focused, and comfortable working independently as well as partnering with faculty, staff, students, and campus partners to support the department's operational and research goals.

Salary & Compensation

*UCLA provides a full pay range. Actual salary offers consider factors, including budget, prior experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business considerations. Salary offers at the top of the range are not common. Visit UC Benefit package to discover benefits that start on day one, and UC Total Compensation Estimator to calculate the total compensation value with benefits.
Qualifications

  • Experience as a Fund Manager and resource in all aspects of planning and managing the contract and grant finances including closeout. (Required)
  • Experience in negotiating, exchanging ideas, information and opinions in collaboration with faculty, staff and administrators to arrive at mutually acceptable solutions to problems. (Required)
  • Experience in knowledge of University policies, practices, and procedures pertaining to accounting transactions and internal controls. Ability to advise staff andacademic personnel on how to complete (Required)
  • Experience in University regulations, legal requirements and accounting guidelines pertaining to University business activity. (Required)
  • Experience in reading and interpreting documents written in standard English such as administrative policy and procedure manuals, contract and grant regulations andguidelines. (Required)
  • Experience in utilizing personal computer spreadsheet and word processing applications to prepare reports and presentations and to analyze financial data. Skills inutilizing tools such as, Microsoft (Required)
  • Experience with computing ratios, rates and percentages to prepare analytical financial reports. (Required)
  • Experience working in a busy office with significant traffic, frequent interruptions and/or distractions in the midst of diversified responsibilities and changing priorities. (Required)
  • Experience with maintaining strict confidentiality of information related to financial matters. (Required)
  • Experience in establishing and maintain positive and productive working relationships with faculty, staff, administrators, and coworkers. (Required)
  • Experience with university purchasing and travel reimbursement systems. (Required)
  • Experience with procurement practices. (Required)
  • Skill in effective management of multiple budgets, with different time-lines, project personnel, and deliverables from multiple sources. (Required)
  • Skill in financial analysis, planning, preparation and administration for a budget with multiple funding sources. (Required)
  • Skill in identifying and resolving discrepancies with appropriate follow through to resolve issues. (Required)
  • Skills in analyzing information, practices, or procedures to: - Identify problems or objectives - Identify patterns, trends and relationships - Formulate logical and objective conclusions - Recognize alternative and their implications. (Required)
  • Skill in designing, generating, presenting and discussing statistical and financial reports which are clear, concise, and detailed. (Required)
  • Skill in gathering, organizing, analyzing information, problems, situations, practices or procedures to identify and define the problem or objective; conclusions, and recommended solutions. (Required)
  • Skill in coordinating and contributing to projects from the conceptual through the implementation stages. (Required)
  • Skill in creativity and initiative to develop workable solutions to problems when answers are not readily apparent. (Required)
  • Knowledge of Campus Administrative units and their services, role, and responsibilities; ability to contact them appropriately to obtain needed information, troubleshoot and resolve issues. (Required)
  • Working knowledge of UCLA processes and financial systems including UCPath, Cognos, QDB, BruinBuy Plus, Transfer of Funds (TOF), Transfer of Non-Payroll Expense (NPEAR), Transfer of Payroll Expense (Salary Cost Transfer), UCLA Foundation Monetary Transfer of Fund. (Required)
  • Ability to train department professionals engaged in various fund management activities, cost-effective management of their financial affairs. (Required)

    • Education, Licenses, Certifications & Personal Affiliations

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and/or experience/training (Required)

    • Special Conditions for Employment

  • Background Check: Continued employment is contingent upon the completion of a satisfactory background investigation.

    • Schedule

    8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m
    Union/Policy Covered

    RP-Research and Public Service PR
    Complete Position Description

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    About University of California Los Angeles

    The University of California, Los Angeles is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School. This school was absorbed with the official founding of UCLA as the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1919, making it the second-oldest of the 10-campus University of California system. UCLA offers 337 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines, enrolling about 31,600 undergraduate and 14,300 graduate and professional students. UCLA received 174,914 undergraduate applications for Fall 2022, including transfers, making the school the most applied-to university in the United States. The university is organized into the College of Letters and Science and 12 professional schools. Six of the schools offer undergraduate degree programs: the School of the Arts and Architecture, Samueli School of Engineering, Herb Alpert School of Music, School of Nursing, Luskin School of Public Affairs and School of Theater, Film and Television. Three others are graduate-level professional health science schools: the David Geffen School of Medicine, School of Dentistry and Fielding School of Public Health. The School of Education & Information Studies, Anderson School of Management and School of Law round out the university.
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