Description

General Responsibilities To serve as key financial team member to the Chair and Executive Administrator for every financial strategy and decision for Neurosurgery. To strategically plan, implement, direct and maintain all of the fiscally related activities for the department. To develop and implement the department's financial analysis/forecasting/budgeting, financial policy interpretation and enforcement. To establish financial systems for the department, if needed. To oversee space reporting for the department. To manage staff to ensure completion of projects and proper functioning of financial, business and program operations.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Strategically plans, implements, directs and maintains all of the fiscally related activities for the department, including UAB and HSF, and is the key individual involved in financial planning, negotiations and presentation to Children's of Alabama CEO for mission support. Provides oversight of the day-to-day HSF UAB financial activities and ensures policies, procedures and programs are consistently administered, align with the organizational goals, and are in compliance with professional standards and institutional requirements.

2. Develops and administers the annual HSF UAB budgets as well as the COA Pediatric Neurosurgery Profit Loss budget, and provides ongoing analysis and forecasting. Monitors financial activity to proactively identify potential challenges and opportunities to address with the Chair, EA and program directors. Reviews and reconciles accounts payable and receivables, financial statements, requisitions and P-Card transactions.

3. Works closely with the Chair and Exec Administrator to monitor the clinical practice financial operations, analyzes revenue issues and provides recommendations for maximization of clinical revenue. Monitors faculty compensation/incentive plan for HSF clinical faculty to encourage optimal clinical efficiencies and productivity. Analyzes effectiveness and equitability of compensation plan and provides recommendations to Chair and Executive Administrator if modifications are needed. Processes supplemental pay for clinical faculty call coverage as well as 1st 2nd biannual incentive payments. Monitors sponsored research budget periods as well as required Over-The-Cap voluntary and mandatory cost-sharing requirements to forecast changes in department funded salary support for independent research-intensive faculty.

4. Requests and manages committed funds designated for clinical and research intensive faculty recruitment retention funds (Reinvestment package from SOM, IMPACT Other Department/ Center support), Children's of Alabama mission support for the Pediatric Neurosurgery Division and Neurosurgery MOUs for shared services provided to other departments. Manages disbursement of committed support for shared services provided to Neurosurgery.

5. Manages, reports and plans investments and gifts. Requests accounts for new endowments and gifts, and manages investment earnings and gift funds in accordance with donors' intent. Meets regularly with the Development team to reconcile gifts, endowments, and ensure all accounts are in order.

6. Completes the UAB Annual Space Survey. Collaborates with the department's Operations Administrator, Research Directors, and other administrative staff to update occupants, space usage and assignment, and funding sources. Collaborates with HSF Decision Support, and extracts data from various systems (Oracle, Lawson Tableau) to complete the financial sections of Neurosurgery's national organization survey (NERVES). Works with the Exec. Administrator to develop a 5-year Strategic Plan for Chair package and Reinvestment requests.

7. Manages direct reports including hiring, training, evaluating performance, etc.

8. Performs other duties as assigned.

Salary Range: $85,600 - $139,100

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