(VCFA & CFO), the AVC serves as a trusted strategic advisor to the Chancellor, Provost, and VCFA & CFO, and provides leadership in institutional financial strategy, multi-year financial planning, budget development, forecasting, financial performance management, capital and cash planning, and executive decision support. The Associate Vice Chancellor will have overarching responsibility for the stewardship, management, and strategic deployment of the campus’s full portfolio of funding sources and financial resources. This includes State funds, student tuition and fees, fees for service, auxiliary enterprise revenues, and other institutional funding streams. The role encompasses responsibility for the integrity and sustainability of campus-wide resource pools, as well as oversight of the use of institutional debt and capital financing to support major strategic investments. Collectively, these responsibilities span the full campus operating and capital financial portfolio, representing a total budgetary scope of approximately $1.3 billion. The position leads the development and continuous refinement of the University's integrated resource allocation and budget model, balancing academic priorities, enrollment, research, administrative operations, capital investment, and long-term financial sustainability through sophisticated financial modeling and scenario analysis. This leader will be responsible for strengthening institutional financial transparency, enhancing executive-level financial communications, improving forecasting and reporting capabilities, and building organizational capacity across the FP&A function. The AVC builds and leads a high-performing FP&A unit that serves as a strategic business partner to executive leadership, academic leadership, central finance, and administrative units to support sustainable financial planning, strategic resource allocation, operational effectiveness, resource utilization, and long-term institutional priorities. This role requires a highly collaborative leader with demonstrated success and forward-thinking leader with exceptional executive communication skills, organizational leadership capabilities, expert analytics and modeling acumen, and the ability to translate complex financial information into actionable institutional strategy.
