Associate Director - School Financial Operations

Our Purpose

Stanford Medicine is leading the biomedical revolution in precision health. We are transforming health care away from after-the-fact diagnosis to prediction and prevention and away from one-size-fits-all medicine to personalized care that empowers people to lead healthy lives. We are leveraging the art and science of medicine to predict and prevent disease before it strikes and cure it decisively if it does.

To achieve our Precision Health vision, we are integrating, building, and leveraging our strengths in fundamental research, the new field of biomedical data science, and nine transformative biomedical platforms. As a learning health system, we will apply these advances in our hospitals and health care delivery systems within Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children's Health.

Our Values

Fulfilling our promise to humanity requires the engagement of a diverse, creative, and collaborative team of professionals who work together to advance our research, education, and patient care mission. We strive to create a culture of inclusion and belonging to ensure all employee have the meaningful employment experience that is necessary to do their best work.

Our Work

Stanford University School of Medicine is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Associate Director for School Operations to join our dynamic team. This pivotal role will provide strategic direction and oversight for financial operations, ensuring compliance with university, local, state, and federal regulations. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and developing the School's financial reporting plans that significantly impact the organization, while fostering a culture of transparency and accountability. If you are a proactive leader with a strong background in financial management and a passion for supporting academic and healthcare initiatives, we invite you to apply and contribute to our mission of advancing health through innovative research and education.

The Associate Director for School Operations reports to the Assistant Dean, Financial Controller and acts as a strategic advisor and thought partner to the Fiscal Affairs' Leadership Team in support of our tripartite research, education, and health care mission.

The Associate Director for School Operations oversees Financial Reporting and Analysis for the School ($4.2B Revenue), and Clinical Operations ($1.7B Revenue) for School of Medicine.

DUTIES INCLUDE:

• Design, establish, and maintain an organizational structure and staffing to effectively accomplish the organization's goals and objectives; oversee recruitment, training, supervision, and evaluation of staff.

• Lead, execute and communicate operational financial reporting trends, forecasting and strategy; direct business operations.

• Identify and resolve strategic problems that affect the overall functioning beyond the immediate school/unit that have potential university wide impact.

• Make strategic decisions using complex, comprehensive analyses, high level financial modeling; provide information and context to leadership to support senior leadership decisions.

• Provide strategy, vision and direction that have wide scope and impact, make recommendations, influence issues related to university finance and accounting policy.

• Partner to design and establish appropriate programs to provide a strong system of internal controls to protect and steward university resources.

• Partner across the university to determine new and ongoing business and technology initiatives.

• Direct high-visibility process redesign and innovation projects; champion major initiatives, and develop and drive implementation of project initiatives.

• Represent the school/unit at the university level and to external constituencies.

* - Other duties may also be assigned