The Associate Vice Chancellor for Financial Planning & Analysis (AVC, FP&A) serves as a senior finance leader responsible for leading the University's comprehensive financial strategy by designing, implementing, and continually refining enterprise-wide financial planning processes, governance, methodologies, and analytical capabilities that support informed decision-making across all areas of the institution.
Reporting to the Vice Chancellor Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer (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.
Key Responsibilities
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Leads other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives.
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Represents the Budget Office in organization-wide and systemwide meetings and discussions; plans, designs, and implements organization-wide budget processes.
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| Executive Financial Reporting, Communications, and Decision Support: Lead development of executive-level financial reports, dashboards, presentations, briefing materials and institutional analyses. Ensure timely, accurate and decision-oriented financial reporting for executive leadership, governance bodies and campus stakeholders. Translates complex financial concepts into clear, concise and actionable communication materials for diverse audiences. Advance institutional financial literacy and analytic capabilities among campus leadership groups and support the Chief Financial and Administrative Officers (CFAOs). | |
Frequently interacts with executives and/or major customers. Interactions often involve controversial situations, customer negotiations, or influencing and persuading other senior level managers.
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Directs and controls the activities of a broad functional area through several unit managers within the organization having overall responsibility for planning, budgeting, implementing and maintaining costs, methods, and employees.
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Provides direction and expertise to financial analysis department, projects and work assignments.
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Makes final decisions on administrative or operational matters and ensures effective achievement of operation's objectives.
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| Directs, controls and has overall accountability for internal controls to protect University resources. |
| Advanced degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training. |
| 10 - 15 years of related experience. | Required |
| Experience at a leadership level with responsibility for financial planning and analysis. | Required |
| Previous supervisory/managerial experience. | Preferred |
| Experience within a large, decentralized public higher education system. | Preferred |
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UC Riverside is recognized as one of the most ethnically diverse research universities in the country boasting several key rankings of which we are extremely proud.
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