"Chief Operating Officer"

Job Summary

The Wisconsin School of Business is seeking a Chief Operating Officer who will be a leader in administrative services transformation and operational excellence for an enterprise with annual expenditures totaling approximately $100 million. This position reports to the Dean and serves as a key advisor to and member of the senior leadership team. The ideal candidate thrives in complex environments and has a strong financial acumen especially with respect to budgeting, forecasting, and financial oversight. This position requires exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with a collaborative leadership style.

This position will steer the school’s core administrative and financial infrastructure to enable bold innovation, academic distinction, and long-term sustainability. This position is responsible for managing and optimizing cross-functional operations across core services areas, while also nurturing campus-wide partnerships to help the school leverage best ideas and practices.

This position requires work be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Serves as a divisional representative and subject matter expert to institutional leadership and internal and external stakeholders providing financial direction and information, fostering collaborative relationships across multiple functional areas, and representing the interests of the division
• Participates in the development, maintenance, and monitoring of automated financial information systems and budgets, and disseminates updates and results to leadership when appropriate
• Directs strategic planning initiatives and establishes objectives for multiple finance functional areas to ensure appropriate use of financial, administrative, and staffing resources and alignment with the strategic plan
• Oversees, reviews, develops, recommends, and implements policies and procedures for internal and external financial reporting, budgeting and financial operations
• Collaborates with campus and school leadership in optimizing core administrative services
• Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
• Directs division business operations and is responsible for administrative, financial, and operations management.
• Determines personnel needs and the personnel resource allocation plan

Department

Wisconsin School of Business, Office of the Dean

Compensation

Negotiable

Required Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience working in a senior leadership position
• Prior experience developing operational budgets and financial forecasts for similar or larger size organizations
• Prior experience developing and leading the implementation of organizational strategic initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience leading cross-functional teams
• Experience navigating and influencing in a shared governance environment within a higher education setting

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree Required
• Master's Degree Preferred

How to Apply

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You will be prompted to upload the following documents:

• Resume
• Letter of Qualification

Applicants should attach a letter of qualifications and resume detailing their training and experience relating to the required and preferred qualifications referenced above. The application reviewers will be relying on written application materials to determine which qualified applicants will advance in the recruitment process. The search committee will review all application materials after the posted deadline. We will notify selected applicants to participate further in the selection process directly. References will be requested of final candidates. All applicants will be notified after the search is complete and a candidate has been selected.

Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment. 

Contact Information

Se Ann Yang

se.yang@wisc.edu

608-263-2975

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