Director of Finance, Planning and Analysis

Director Of Finance, Planning And Analysis
Brown University

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Job Description:

The Dean of the Faculty (DoF) supports and oversees over 60
academic units (departments, centers, programs, and institutes); houses over 800 faculty, 400 staff, and 1500 graduate students; delivers
roughly three-quarters of the undergraduate instruction at Brown; and produces world-class research from the arts, humanities, social
sciences, and physical sciences. These activities are supported by a complex annual budget that includes funding from university
appropriations, gifts and endowments, and external grants.

The Director of Finance, Planning, and Analysis is primarily responsible
for planning, analyzing, and managing the DoF’s budget and financial information. The position provides support for strategic financial
planning, decision support, and financial leadership for the deans, ensuring optimal and efficient use of budgetary resources across the
DoF’s complex budget portfolio. At the aggregate level, the Director is responsible for understanding all revenue and expense drivers for
the DoF to project and create multi-year plans. The Director will collaborate with the central Finance Division’s Office of Financial
Strategy and Planning (OFSP). The Director of Finance in OFSP supports the DoF with the consolidation of financial deliverables, including
the annual budget, forecast, year-end close, financial reporting, and input and consolidation of the DoF budget into the central university
budget system.

The management of budgets and financial administration of the DoF is highly decentralized, with local department
managers budgeting and managing spending from one or more cost centers. The Director will provide leadership and budgetary management for
these managers and additional staff with budget responsibilities. The Director provides operational support, training and oversight for
department and local cost center managers and ensures individuals responsible for overseeing and managing budgets have the necessary
information, resources, and training to understand their budgets to facilitate decision-making. The Director ensures the DoF and these
academic units optimally utilize the university’s financial system to maximize transparency for analysis and planning. The Director will
supervise a financial analyst, who will provide day-to-day support for financial operations, transactions, and planning for the
departments.

The Director is responsible as the financial lead for projects engaging other operational areas within the DoF and
partner units (e.g. Graduate School, School of Professional Studies, Provost’s Office). They will collaborate with the Directors of Research
Management and Support, Academic Facilities and Operations, Faculty Personnel, and Human Resources as well as with partner units to develop
analyses and projections of future hiring, graduate student support, or other strategic projects. These projects will involve close
collaboration with the Dean, Deputy Dean, and Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty, in addition to department chairs and managers. The
Director will be the primary contact for the Division of Finance and participate in the Division of Finance meetings.

Major
Responsibilities:

1. Budget Leadership and Strategic Decision Support

âEUR¢ Serve as the primary
financial advisor to DoF Deans and department chairs.

âEUR¢ Analyze revenue and expense drivers across the $240M DoF budget to
develop recommendations and multi-year financial projections to optimize resource allocations.

âEUR¢ Create robust multi-year
projections of endowment/gift balances, yields, and expenditures to ensure efficient use of endowment and gift income, in collaboration with
OFSP.

âEUR¢ Create multi-year budget projections of staff salaries to support staff hiring decisions and administrative support, in
collaboration with OFSP.

âEUR¢ Ensure senior leadership has access to required financial information to support decision making and
to ensure appropriate and efficient use of all available funds.

âEUR¢ Develop processes and standard operating procedures to support
financial analysis, planning, and strategic decisions

âEUR¢ Serve as the primary DoF financial representative for senior leadership
(Provost, Deans), key internal units (RMS, HR, Departments), and other university stakeholders (OFSP, Graduate School, SPS).

âEUR¢
Develop financial presentations for various audiences.

2. Major Responsibility: Budgetary Management for the DoF and its
Departments

âEUR¢ Lead internal processes to develop budgets and forecasts for the Dean of the Faculty, working in
collaboration with OFSP for consolidation into university systems.

âEUR¢ Serve as the cost center manager for the Dean of the
Faculty, overseeing a financial analyst to review and approve of financial transactions (expense reports, supplier invoices, costing
allocations, and other expenditures) to ensure compliance with university policies and procedures

âEUR¢ Consolidates the DoF’s
financials, budgets, forecasts, and multi-year planning, requiring an in-depth understanding of the elements that impact revenue and
expenses across the DoF’s departments, centers, and cost centers.

âEUR¢ Manages gift and endowment funds in the DoF cost center
ensure efficient and appropriate use of these resources

3. Leadership and Coordination with Academic Units

âEUR¢
Provide leadership and budgetary management for the academic department managers and other DOF staff with budget responsibilities.

Provide operational support, training and oversight for department and local cost center managers and ensure individuals responsible
for overseeing and managing budgets have the necessary information, resources, and training to understand their budgets to facilitate
decision-making.

âEUR¢ Develop strong relationships with senior leadership, OFSP, and academic departmental managers and staff to
facilitate collaboration and coordination across the DoF’s budget portfolio.

âEUR¢ Provide oversight and support to center directors
and department managers to develop annual and multi-year budgets

âEUR¢ Ensure coordination and seamless flow of relevant data between
academic department managers, deans and directors in the DoF, Finance Division (including OFSP) and the Provost’s Office.

âEUR¢
Provides direction, training, and onboarding to department managers and center directors within the DoF to improve financial processes,
implement analysis, and to ensure accurate financial reporting.

4. Major Responsibility: Management, Supervision, and Training

âEUR¢ Hire, trains, and supervises a Financial Analyst.

âEUR¢ Assign work related to budget forecasting, analysis, and
validation.

âEUR¢ Provide mentorship and leadership to the analyst and ensure the individual is connected with the relevant schools,
departments and centers, and university groups.

âEUR¢ Coordinates efforts of Financial Analyst and academic department managers to
ensure appropriate distribution of responsibilities and that departmental financial transactions are processed appropriately.

âEUR¢
Ensures managers and directors have the skills and experience needed to fulfill their financial responsibilities

Education and
Experience:

âEUR¢ Bachelor’s degree required.

âEUR¢ MBA, CPA, or advanced degree in a related field, preferred but not
required.

âEUR¢ Minimum of 8 years’ experience in financial management (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
including budgeting, analysis, planning, and reporting;

âEUR¢ Higher education experience preferred

âEUR¢ Supervisory and
team-building experience preferred

âEUR¢ Demonstrated strong analytical skills and sound judgment

âEUR¢ Strong written and
oral communication skills; ability to present and communicate data to varied audiences

âEUR¢ Demonstrated ability to work with a
varied constituency, including senior/executive level administrators

âEUR¢ Flexible and adaptable to changing administrative
structures; creative problem solving

âEUR¢ Demonstrated ability to independently manage competing priorities; strong time management
skills

âEUR¢ Extensive experience with Microsoft Office, databases, and accounting/budget systems

âEUR¢ Knowledge of grant
accounting and administration preferred but not required

Please include a cover letter when submitting the application
materials.

Successful completion of a criminal and education background check required.

Benefits of Working at
Brown:

Please review additional information on the Benefits of Working at
Brown.

Recruiting Start Date:

2026-07-30

Job Posting Title:

Director of Finance, Planning
and Analysis

Department:

Office of the Dean of the Faculty

Grade:

Grade 12

Worker
Type:

Employee

Worker Sub-Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Scheduled Weekly
Hours:

37.5

Position Work Location:

Hybrid

Submission Guidelines:

The designated Position Work Location for each position determines the approved modality of work. Positions are classified based on
the operational and business needs of the department and may be designated as on-site, hybrid, or remote.

Employees with a designated
position work location as remote must reside and perform their work in a state where Brown University is registered to do business. Brown
University is a registered employer in the following states: Rhode Island, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland,
Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Washington, D.C.

Please note that to be considered for a staff
position at Brown University, you must submit a separate application for each position you wish to be considered for. Applications are
reviewed only for the specific position to which they are submitted and are not automatically considered for future openings.

This
position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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If you have any questions you may contact employment@brown.edu.

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