Assistant Athletics Director For Finance

Details

Posted: 29-Apr-24

Location: knoxville, Tennessee

Type: Full-time

Salary: Open

Categories:

Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: 24000000HN

Unit: Athletics Position Number: 50234389

FLSA Status: Exempt Pay Grade:

Date: February 28, 2024 Supervisor: Senior Associate Athletics Director/CFO

General Description:

This position provides management for various financial functions, including but not limited to: budgeting, reporting, and analysis. The Assistant AD for Finance leads the department's long-term financial planning, strategic initiatives, financial reporting, tax compliance, and communication regarding finances.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Finance:

• Coordinates department's budget development process, prepares department's consolidated budget plan, monitors and forecasts operating performance and results

• Completes department's financial reporting obligations including year-end close process, NCAA/EADA reporting requirements, and other reporting needs

• Manages arena event financials and tracks event by event profitability

• Assists with Arena special event settlement process

• Coordinates fiscal audits including general communications and auditor fieldwork

• Prepares financial analyses including standard monthly financial analytics, contract negotiation models, and various ad hoc management requests

• Department Salary File and Salary Budget Development, Reconciliation, and Entry

• Budget Manager/liaison for all sports (Operations, Recruiting, Scholarships, and Post Season)

• Budget Development for Sport Budgets and monthly/periodic reporting, ledger approval

• Financial Forecasting assistance for Sport and administrative budgets

• Manage the budget development process with supervisors, coaches, and directors of operations to develop budgets for each team and department for the athletics department (zero-based budgeting)

• Individually meet with supervisors, coaches, and directors of operations to discuss budget needs and ensure the budget process and collaborative and efficient; Organize individually budgets into an overall department budget to ensure balanced budgets are met

• Responsible for financial policy development, tax compliance, and long-range financial planning

• Ensures proper sales and amusement tax calculations and associated tax remittance

• Works directly with campus and system partners to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local tax law

Management

• Develops goals and objectives for financial operations

• Delegates appropriate financial tasks to direct report to assist in professional development

• Provides cost containment/reduction and process improvement recommendations to management in order to enhance operating efficiencies and results

• Conducts employee performance evaluations for one (1) direct report

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Represents department as an active member on SEC business officer group and other national associations (e.g. CABMA)

• Updates management of any pending issues, areas of concern, and/or negligent matters

• Manage Supplemental, additional, recurring and non-recurring pay types

• Assists management on special projects as assigned