Business Manager
Lubbock
41323BR
Media and Communication
Position Description
Manages personnel and budgetary matters for a department or college. Exercises discretion and independent judgment to oversee the activities of staff and the financial processes to ensure fiscal responsibility of department/college. Ensures staff and faculty have the resources to complete their work. Usually serves as a hiring manager and employee service coordinator.
Major/Essential Functions
Directs, plans, coordinates and supervises the operation and activities of a specialized unit or small
department: develops and implements policies and procedures, administers the budget, organizes
tasks and sets priorities. Serves as liaison with university personnel and community at large. Works
under general supervision with broad latitude for initiative and independent judgment.
Serves as manager of college financial and budgetary processes to ensure fiscal responsibility and
strategic management of financial resources. Duties to include, but not limited to the following:
oversees account reconciliation on a regular/monthly basis, prepares and submits necessary budget
paperwork for appointments, budget transfers, and revenue forms. Manages the annual budget prep
process to include successfully closing the current fiscal year records and setting up the next fiscal
year reporting. Responsible for providing reports for the college's annual Budget Hearings and
ensuring accuracy of all financial reporting.
Provides oversight of all college appointments, to include verifying correct salaries and FOPs of faculty
& staff, reviewing college ePAFs, and processing labor redistributions to ensure all funds are spent
correctly and spent each year. Prepares semesterly graduate payroll spreadsheets to verify
appointments and assign appropriate FOPs to ensure all funds are used appropriately and spent each
year. Responsible for the submission of all college-level administrative appointment stipend ePAFs, as
well as faculty appointments on grants/endowments. Provides oversight for all graduate, adjunct, and
overload ePAFs for the college to verify FOPs and general appointment details.
Provides oversight for all college budget/procurement needs and maintains budgetary processes, to
include but not limited to the following: deposit/cash handling procedures, scholarship awarding
procedures, cost transfers, labor redistributions, etc. Responsible to ensure all staff members assisting
in procurement processes are trained and supported as needed. Responsible to ensure that all
scholarship accounts are set up in the STS system and provide scholarship budgets to the Scholarship
Committee to ensure that no scholarship is overspent.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and four years of experience developing or managing programs or projects. Additional job related education may be substituted for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.
Preferred Qualifications
General accounting practices and procedures. Course work in accounting. Organizational skills. Ability
to manage multiple tasks. Excellent written and oral communication skills, including ability to
communicate financial information professionally, clearly, consistently, and transparently to
non-financial experts. Excellent word processing abilities. Knowledge of MS Word; MS Publisher; MS
Outlook; MS Excel.
5-7 years of TTU accounting work. Working knowledge of the TTU financial system.
Special Instructions to Applicant
Please include your cover letter and resume with your application.
Minimum Hire Rate
4000
To apply, visit workattexastech.com
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or status as a protected veteran.
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Required skills
- Supervising Employees
- Budget Management
- Hiring and Terminating Employees
- Budgeting
- Financial Reporting
- Financial Experience - General
- MS Outlook
- Word Processing Experience
- Cash-Handling
- Knowledge in Excel
- Payroll
- Microsoft Publisher
- Accounting Experience
- Reconciliations
- Knowledge in MS Word