Vice President Administration and Finance

Vice President for Administration and Finance

Lehman College is a senior college of The City University of New York (CUNY) located in the Bronx. A federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution, Lehman serves a diverse population of more than 14,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The College invites applications for the position of Vice President for Administration and Finance.

The Vice President for Administration and Finance provides the vision and leadership to manage the College's operating and capital budgets; pursues innovative business solutions to enhance the overall effectiveness of the College's financial and administrative operations; works collaboratively with senior staff, faculty, administrators, and external constituents to achieve sustainable plans that maximize institutional goals; and is an advocate for funding for Lehman College.

Reporting to the President of the College, the Vice President is a member of the President's Cabinet and the chief advisor to the President and executive staff on fiscal affairs, administrative, and facilities operations. She/he is the principal liaison to The City University's system administration, government agencies, and other entities regarding fiscal, administrative, and operational matters.

The Vice President oversees six major units, including

Budget and Planning. Responsible for financial planning and budgeting, developing models and forecasting long-term financial projections, and ensuring compliance with college, university, and state regulations.

Campus Planning and Facilities:
Works with the University and the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY) in matters related to the planning, programming, design, document production, cost estimation, bidding, construction, and observation of capital projects and maintenance, alteration, and repair projects. Exercises appropriate stewardship of physical resources by maintaining, managing, and operating buildings, grounds, infrastructure, assets, and utilities with emphasis on ensuring their productive use and enjoyment by present and future students, faculty, staff, visitors, and the local community.

Environmental Health and Safety. Provides oversight, training, and other services to reduce workplace accidents and injuries, and ensures compliance with environmental and governmental regulations.

Financial Operations:
Strategically and collaboratively enhances the college's financial strength through fiscal analysis, monitoring, planning, and reporting, and provides business and financial services to the campus community through offices such as General Accounting, Accounts Payable, Auxiliary Services, Bursar, Central Receiving, Mail Services, Purchasing, Print Shop, and Student Financial Services.

Human Resources:
Partners with academic and administrative departments to recruit and retain a talented and diverse workforce and manages benefits administration, organizational and professional development, payroll administration, and employee recognition programs.

Public Safety. Maintains a safe environment for students, faculty, staff, and visitors, and directs emergency response and management on campus.

Charged with strengthening the College's ability to generate, effectively allocate, and manage resources in support of institutional goals and objectives, the responsibilities of the Vice President for Administration and Finance are within three major areas:

Fiscal Management and Resource Development Serves as the College's Chief Financial Officer. Plans, directs and coordinates the fiscal affairs at the College, including, but not limited to, the development of a financial strategy for the College; development and control of the operating and capital budgets, financial forecasts and funding models; weighs aspirations against resources and evaluates the financial impact of policy options and key performance metrics for institutional planning and decision making;

identifies and recommends opportunities to help the College maintain and improve its funding levels; provides expert advice along with fiscal and operational policy recommendations to the President and college leadership and, maintains reporting and operational relationships with the University Budget Office and other units of the Central office as appropriate to ensure compliance with relevant CUNY policies and procedures, and federal, state, and local regulations applicable to the financial and operational areas.

Continuous Improvement and Innovation:
Demonstrates a continuous, proactive, and creative improvement of operations through re-engineering work processes, new technology solutions, assessment of best practices, and feedback from internal users and external customers. Also, ensures that the strategic objectives of the College are adequately supported by the budget, administrative processes are grounded in best practices; internal controls and procedures are strengthened, services are delivered efficiently and with a…