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Position Details
Position Information
Posting Number
TSU203768
Official TSU Title
Executive Director, Business Intelligence and Technology
Solutions
Grant Title
n/a
Job Description Summary / TWC Summary
JOB SUMMARY :
The Executive Director of Business Intelligence and Technology
Solutions is a seasoned senior
hands-on professional who serves as the technology and analytics
expert for Finance and
Business Administration. The Executive Director receives general
direction, priorities, identified
control issues, business needs, and expected outcomes from the
Senior Associate Vice President
of Strategic Initiatives and Transformation.
The Executive Director independently designs, builds, implements,
and maintains business
intelligence, workflow-automation, internal-controls automation,
and continuous controls monitoring solutions. The position develops
dashboards, KPIs, scorecards, data models,
automated reports, digital workflows, system validations, exception
reports, alerts, low-code
applications, and other technology solutions that improve
efficiency, monitoring, internal
controls, and decision-making.
The Executive Director works with functional owners to understand
process details and business
rules, and with Information Technology when enterprise integration,
ERP configuration,
cybersecurity review, or specialized development is required. The
Executive Director drafts
business and functional requirements, leads the functional
evaluation and selection of software,
develops acceptance criteria, and tests solutions before
recommending acceptance. Functional
leaders retain ownership of their operations, data, processes,
controls, and corrective actions.
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS :
This is a working Executive Director position distinguished by its
integration of business
intelligence, technology solution development, business process
automation, internal control
automation, and continuous controls monitoring. The incumbent
leverages extensive expertise
to independently lead complex, cross-functional initiatives while
personally designing,
developing, implementing, and optimizing innovative solutions.
Unlike a traditional executive
leadership role focused primarily on oversight, coordination, or
strategic recommendations, this
position requires a hands-on executive who delivers end-to-end
solutions that drive operational
efficiency, strengthen governance, enhance data-informed
decision-making, and support
continuous process improvement across the organization.
The position translates general business needs and identifies
control issues into practical
technology solutions and serves as the functional lead from
requirements development through software evaluation, testing, and
acceptance recommendation. The Executive Director may
independently lead process-improvement initiatives when technology,
automation, systems,
data, or analytics are the primary enablers and support broader
transformation initiatives by
delivering the required technology component. The position does not
replace the operational
responsibilities of functional leaders, the enterprise technology
responsibilities of Information
Technology, the procurement and contracting responsibilities of
authorized university offices, or
the independent assurance responsibilities of Internal Audit.
Essential Duties Summary
DATA ANALYTICS, KPIs, AND PERFORMANCE REPORTING :
- Develops and maintains executive scorecards, leadership
dashboards, operational dashboards, management reports, and
analytical tools.
Develops cross-divisional KPIs and performance measures in
partnership with executive leadership and functional owners.
Establishes and documents KPI definitions, formulas, baselines,
targets, thresholds, data sources, ownership, reporting frequency,
and validation requirements.
Build dashboards, reports, scorecards, and data visualizations
using Power BI or comparable business-intelligence tools.
Develops and maintains data models, calculations, queries, data
transformations, and automated reporting processes.
Uses SQL, DAX, Power Query, advanced Excel, or comparable tools
to combine and analyze information from multiple systems.
DATA QUALITY, VALIDATION, AND CONTROLS MONITORING
- Validates the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and
timeliness of financial and operational data, reports, dashboards,
and analytical products.
- Reconciles dashboards and management reports to Banner, ERP
data, the general ledger, payroll, procurement, budget,
asset-management, and other authoritative source systems.
- Investigates conflicting results, duplicate or missing records,
mapping issues, timing differences, unusual variances, and
calculation errors.
- Establishes data-quality controls, validation procedures, data
dictionaries, source-to-report mappings, data lineage, and
reporting standards.
- Documents data definitions, calculations, validation
procedures, assumptions, limitations, and identified data-quality
concerns.
- Communicates material data quality or reporting concerns to the
appropriate functional owners and leadership.
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS, SOFTWARE SELECTION, AND ACCEPTANCE
- Elicits, analyzes, drafts, validates, and maintains business
and functional requirements for assigned technology
initiatives.
- Documents current-state and future-state process flows,
business rules, user needs, data requirements, reporting
requirements, internal-control requirements, interfaces, security
considerations, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
- Prepares functional specifications, requirements documents,
statements of work, procurement specifications, demonstration
scripts, and vendor-evaluation criteria as assigned.
- Conducts fit-gap and build-versus-buy analyses and leads to the
functional evaluation of available university platforms and
external software solutions.
- Evaluates software against documented requirements, usability,
control effectiveness, integration, data, security, scalability,
implementation effort, vendor support, total cost, and long-term
sustainability.
- Leads the functional software-selection process and selects or
recommends the preferred solution, subject to required university
procurement, Information Technology, cybersecurity, legal, and
executive approvals.
- Develops requirements-traceability matrices, test strategies,
test plans, test cases, test scripts, test data, expected results,
and acceptance criteria.
- Coordinates and personally participates in system, integration,
regression, and user-acceptance testing; documents defects, verify
corrections, and retests until critical issues are resolved.
- Determines whether the solution satisfies documented
requirements and acceptance criteria and provides a written
recommendation to accept, conditionally accept, or reject the
solution before production use or formal acceptance.
- Participates in configuration, implementation, documentation,
training, deployment, transition to operational ownership, and
post-implementation validation.
INTERNAL CONTROLS AUTOMATION AND CONTINUOUS CONTROLS MONITORING
- Receives identified internal-control issues and expected
outcomes from the Senior Associate Vice President and develops the
technology solution needed to address them.
- Designs and implements automated preventive and detective
controls, including system validations, workflow restrictions,
required approvals, alerts, exception reports, and monitoring
dashboards.
- Develops continuous controls-monitoring analytics to identify
control failures, unusual activity, policy exceptions, missing
approvals, aging items, duplicate records, and other operational
risks.
- Documents automated control logic, data sources, thresholds,
responsible owners, review frequency, evidence requirements,
escalation procedures, and expected system behavior.
- Tests and validates that automated controls and monitoring
tools operate as designed and produce reliable results.
- Monitors implemented solutions, reports unresolved exceptions,
and recommend adjustments when a control or technology solution is
not producing the intended result.
- Supports corrective-action and audit-remediation tracking by
developing reports, dashboards, workflows, and evidence-management
tools.
TECHNOLOGY - ENABLED PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
- Leads process-improvement initiatives when data, workflow
automation, systems, reporting, artificial intelligence, controls
monitoring, or another technology solution is the primary enabler
of the improvement.
- Supports broader process-improvement and transformation
initiatives by designing and implementing the technology, data,
automation, analytics, control-monitoring, and
performance-measurement components.
- Uses current-state review, data analysis, and root-cause
analysis to identify bottlenecks, rework, manual steps, ineffective
handoffs, control gaps, and system limitations.
- Works with functional owners to confirm the desired
future-state process and determine which steps should be
standardized, eliminated, simplified, or automated.
- Coordinates with assigned process-improvement professionals and
functional owners to ensure that future-state process design,
business requirements, controls, and technology solutions are
aligned.
- Establishes measures to determine whether implemented process
and technology improvements achieved the intended efficiency,
accuracy, control, and service outcomes.
- Conducts post-implementation reviews and maintains or enhances
solutions following implementation.
CROSS - FUNCTIONAL SUPPORT AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY
- Works collaboratively with functional leaders, employees,
Information Technology, consultants, auditors, and data owners on
cross-functional initiatives.
- Maintains clear technical documentation, process documentation,
data definitions, control logic, user instructions, and
solution-support information.
- Maintains sufficient working knowledge of continuous process
improvement, internal controls, and audit-remediation tracking to
provide temporary coverage when assigned.
- Protects confidential and security-sensitive business,
employee, vendor, and operational information.
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
% FTE
1.0
Hiring Range
$130,278.45-$169,361.98
Education
Required:
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in data
analytics, business analytics,
management information systems, information systems, computer
science, business
administration, statistics, industrial engineering, or a closely
related field. An equivalent
combination of relevant education, professional experience,
technical training, and
demonstrated accomplishments may be considered.
Required Licensing/Certification
None Required
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Knowledge of:
- Business intelligence, KPI development, performance
measurement, dashboard development, data modeling, data
visualization, and reporting automation.
- Workflow automation, digital forms, low-code applications,
business-process automation, systems integration, and
technology-solution delivery.
- Internal controls automation, preventive and detective
controls, exception reporting, continuous controls monitoring, and
corrective-action monitoring.
- Data governance, data quality, metadata, data lineage,
master-data concepts, and reporting standards.
- ERP systems, integrated administrative systems, and
authoritative source-system data.
- Business analysis, requirements elicitation and documentation,
fit-gap analysis, software evaluation and selection, requirements
traceability, test management, user-acceptance testing, and
solution acceptance.
- Process analysis, root-cause analysis, future-state design,
implementation, and sustainment.
- Artificial intelligence, intelligent automation, human
oversight, auditability, security, and associated governance
considerations.
Skill in:
- Power BI dashboard and report development.
- SQL, DAX, Power Query, data modeling, and advanced Excel.
- Financial and operational data analysis.
- Report validation and reconciliation.
- KPI, scorecard, and performance-measure development.
- Exception analytics and monitoring controls.
- Translating business requirements into technical and reporting
specifications.
- Communicating complex analytical information to executive and
nontechnical audiences.
- Preparing clear business, technical, and data
documentation.
Ability to:
- Independently design, build, implement, maintain, and improve
business-intelligence, process-automation, and controls-automation
solutions.
- Convert general direction and identified business or control
problems into practical, secure, and sustainable technology
solutions.
- Lead the functional requirements, software-evaluation,
selection, testing, and acceptance process while complying with
university approval and procurement requirements.
- Determine whether a proposed or delivered solution satisfies
documented requirements, internal controls, and acceptance criteria
before recommending acceptance.
- Determine whether reports, dashboards, automated controls, and
monitoring tools are accurate and operating as intended.
- Work with functional owners to understand business rules
without assuming permanent operational ownership.
- Collaborate effectively with executives, functional leaders,
operational staff, Information Technology professionals,
consultants, auditors, and data owners.
- Manage confidential and security-sensitive information.
- Prioritize competing assignments and deliver completed work
under compressed timelines.
Work Experience
Required:
- At least eight years of progressively responsible experience in
a combination of business intelligence, data analytics, business
analysis, systems analysis, workflow automation, enterprise
technology solutions, or closely related work.
- At least three years of senior-level or lead responsibility
independently directing complex, cross-functional technology,
analytics, automation, or technology-enabled process-improvement
initiatives.
- A demonstrated record of exercising independent judgment,
advising executive leadership, resolving complex technical and
business issues, and delivering completed solutions in a complex
organization.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience personally building and
maintaining dashboards, reports, scorecards, and analytical
products using Power BI or a comparable business-intelligence
platform.
- Practical hands-on experience using SQL, DAX, Power Query,
advanced Excel, or comparable tools to combine, transform, analyze,
and report information from multiple systems.
- Demonstrated experience in at least three of the following
areas: business-requirements development; software evaluation and
selection; user-acceptance testing; workflow or low-code
automation; controls-monitoring analytics; automated controls; or
technology-enabled process improvement.
- Experience participating in solution design, implementation,
testing, issue resolution, documentation, training, deployment, or
post-implementation support.
- Experience working with ERP -enabled business or administrative
processes and authoritative source-system data.
- Candidates must have personally developed and implemented
analytical, automation, or technology-enabled solutions. Experience
limited to reviewing, supervising, advising on, or coordinating the
work of others will not satisfy this requirement.
Preferred:
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Azure
Data Lake, Synapse Analytics, or comparable technology.
- Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate, or
comparable workflow-automation and low-code platforms.
- Experience with continuous controls monitoring controls
automation, exception analytics, or automated compliance
reporting.
- Experience integrating artificial intelligence, predictive
analytics, robotic process automation, or intelligent automation
into business processes.
- Experience working with Banner or another higher-education ERP
.
- Experience working with external consultants or
systems-integration partners.
- Experience in higher education, government, healthcare,
nonprofit, or another complex regulated environment.
- Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate or
Fabric Data Engineer Associate.
- Microsoft Power Platform or comparable low-code and automation
certification.
- Certified Information Systems Auditor, Certified in Risk and
Information Systems Control, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Project
Management Professional, or another relevant certification.
Working/Environmental Conditions
This job description is intended to describe the essential
functions of the position and is not an exhaustive list of all
duties and responsibilities. Essential duties, functions, and
responsibilities may vary based on the specific work assigned to
the position.
Desired start date
Position End Date (if temporary)
Posting Detail Information
UA EEO Statement
It is the policy of Texas Southern University to provide a work
environment that is free from discrimination for all persons
regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin,
individuals with disability, sexual orientation, or protected
veteran status in its programs, activities, admissions or
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Manual of Administrative Policies and Procedures
Close Date
Open Until Filled (overrides close field)
Yes
Special Instructions to Applicants
Open to all applicants.
Posting Supplemental Questions
Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).
- * Do you have a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or
university in data analytics, business analytics, management
information systems, information systems, computer science,
business administration, statistics, industrial engineering, or a
closely related field or an equivalent combination of relevant
education, professional experience, technical training, and
demonstrated accomplishments may be considered?
- * Do you have at least eight years of progressively responsible
experience in a combination of business intelligence, data
analytics, business analysis, systems analysis, workflow
automation, enterprise technology solutions, or closely related
work?
- * Do you have experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data
Factory, Azure Data Lake, Synapse Analytics, or comparable
technology?
Applicant Documents
Required Documents
- Resume
- Cover Letter/Letter of Application
- Official Transcripts
Optional Documents
- Other Document
- Reference Letter 1
- Reference Letter 2
- Reference Letter 3
