Finance Professional

Are you ready to join our team where you can grow and develop your career while supporting exciting and dynamic projects? UAA Facilities & Campus Services (FCS) Business Office is seeking to hire a finance manager to join our team. The FCS Business Office supports all FCS departments including Planning & Construction, Maintenance & Operations, General Support Services, and Environmental Health Safety & Risk Management. The primary focus of this position is supporting the Planning & Construction department working daily with diverse staff including project managers, contracting officer, the Business Office team, and staff from other departments across the campus.

Becoming an FCS team member means joining a community that values: fostering an environment of respect embracing our unique backgrounds while supporting UAA inclusivity and diversity goals, safety of employees and students as a core responsibility, collaborating with stakeholders to solve problems in innovative ways using creative and critical thinking, communicating effectively and with transparency so that processes are streamlined, understood and our customers know the status of their requests, using our resources sustainably integrating economic, social, and environmental stewardship in all aspects of our work, accelerating excellence through continuous improvement, and acting with integrity through being a trusted and respected community partner. The UAA community identifies the following for competencies for students and staff: effective communication, creative and critical thinking, intercultural fluency, and personal, professional and community responsibility.

We provide excellent benefits and perks including:

• Generous vacation leave, sick leave, and 12 paid holidays per year,
• Tuition waivers for yourself and family members,
• Comprehensive and affordable Medical, Dental and Vision Care coverage,
• An employee assistance program and a free wellness program with financial incentives for participation,
• State of Alaska PERS retirement plan,
• Regular training in best practices

To thrive in this role the successful candidate will have experience working with budgets and complex spreadsheets, and possess skills in problem solving, creative and critical thinking, collaborating, and communicating effectively. In this position it’s important to have flexibility and adaptability to pivot your focus from task to task, to handle changing priorities and deadlines.

As the Finance Manager, you will be interpreting and applying University, Alaska Statute, and OMB fiscal, purchasing, travel, and HR policies, rules, and regulations along with general accounting practices in tasks to include project cost reconciliation, recharge center fiscal management, multi-year project fund management, ensure appropriate use of capital allocations, grants, bond proceeds, extract and analyze fiscal data, respond to internal and external request and inquiries, provide departmental HR support tasks, cost transfers, budget balancing, travel administration support,

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field and 6 months professional fiscal experience, or an equivalent combination of training and experience.

Position Details:

This position is located on the UAA main campus in Anchorage. This is a full-time, non-exempt staff position complete with both a competitive salary and full employee benefits package. New hires will be placed on the UA Staff Salary Schedule, Grade 78, based on education and experience.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until a successful candidate is identified, applications will be reviewed by date received until the position is filled. This recruitment is open until filled and successful submission of an application does not guarantee employment.

Please attach a resume, cover letter, and the names and contact information for three (3) professional references with your application.

*To be eligible for this position, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.  Applicants who now or may in the future require visa sponsorship to work in the United States are not eligible.

The University of Alaska (UA) is responsible for providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the applicant screening process. If you need assistance in completing this application or during any phase of the interview process, please contact UA Human Resources by phone at 907-450-8200.

UA is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, educational institution and provider and prohibits illegal discrimination against any individual: www.alaska.edu/nondiscrimination.

The successful applicant is required to complete a background check. Any offer of employment is contingent on the background check.

Your application for employment with the University of Alaska is subject to public disclosure under the Alaska Public Records Act.

If you have any questions regarding this position, please contact Steffanie Miller, Facilities & Campus Services HR Coordinator, at seshlema@alaska.edu or 907-786-1112.

All employees at the University of Alaska are expected to uphold the highest standards of ethics and professionalism when conducting or engaged in university business.

*Each university within the University of Alaska system publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report which contains information regarding campus safety and security including topics such as: campus law enforcement authority; crime reporting policies; campus alerts (Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications); fire safety policies and procedures; programs to prevent dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking; the procedures the University will follow when one of these crimes is reported; and other matters of importance related to security on campus. The report also contains information about crime statistics for the three most recent calendar years concerning reported crimes that occurred on campus; in On-Campus Student Housing Facilities; in Noncampus buildings or property owned or controlled by the University or a recognized student organization; and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus.  The report also contains fire statistics for any fires occurring in an On-Campus Student Housing Facility during the three most recent calendar years.  

Access to the reports is available at:

UAA: (Addresses Anchorage campus, Aviation Technology Complex, JBER - Elmendorf Extension, JBER - Richardson Extension, Kenai Peninsula College - Kachemak Bay campus, Kenai Peninsula College - Kenai River campus, Kodiak College, Kodiak High School Extension, Matanuska-Susitna College, Prince William Sound College, and Prince William Sound College - Cordova Extension) Online: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/students/safety. Request a paper copy in person: UAA Police Department Office at Room 114 of Eugene Short Hall on the Anchorage campus / UAA Dean of Students Office at Room 122 of Rasmuson Hall on the Anchorage campus. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-786-1120 or police@uaa.alaska.edu / 907-786-1214 or uaa_deanofstudents@alaska.edu. 

UAF: (Addresses Fairbanks Campus, Bristol Bay Campus, Chukchi Campus, Community and Technical College, Kasitsna Bay Campus, Seward Marine Center, Tok Campus, Kuskokwim Campus, and Northwest Campus) Online: https://www.uaf.edu/orca/files/ASFSR.pdf. Request a paper copy in person: UAF Office of Rights, Compliance and Accountability on the 3rd Floor of Constitution Hall. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-474-7300 or uaf-orca@alaska.edu.

UAS: (Addresses the Juneau Auke Bay Campus, Juneau Technical Education Center, Sitka Campus, & Ketchikan Campus) Online: https://uas.alaska.edu/equity-and-compliance/docs/clery/UAS_ASFSR.pdf. Request a paper copy in person: Hendrickson Building, Suite 202 on the Juneau campus. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-796-6371 or emailing uas.clery@alaska.edu.