MANAGER, FINANCE & PAYROLL, Sargent College, Administration

Manager, Finance & Payroll

Job Description

Boston University Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences is one of the country’s leading schools of health and rehabilitation sciences. Home to more than 1,200 undergraduate and 575 graduate students, Sargent College combines outstanding faculty and cutting-edge research to provide superb education and clinical experiences. The college has more than 35 on-campus research facilities, clinical centers, and labs. It offers top-ranked degree programs in occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech, language and hearing sciences, health science, human physiology, behavior and health, and nutrition.

The Manager, Finance & Payroll, is a key member of an inclusive and service-oriented Finance & Administration team who provides high-level service and administration for payroll, finance, sponsored research administration, faculty actions, and labor contract compliance for the college’s academic departments, research centers, outpatient clinics and units, as well as to college leadership. Reporting to the Director of Finance & Administration, the Manager will administer payroll, financial, faculty actions, and sponsored research services to the college’s diverse community of stakeholders. They will partner with college leadership to deliver financial analyses using data-informed management decisions. This position serves as the primary contact for Sargent College faculty and staff managing day-to-day payroll operations involving work across all central F&A units in the University, including HR, Payroll, and the Office of Sponsored Research.

The Manager will manage all aspects of payroll for Sargent College and its dynamic community of 400 faculty, researchers, and staff. The Manager will be responsible for Sargent's exempt semi-monthly, non-exempt weekly, and student weekly payrolls to ensure consistent, timely, and accurate administration of payroll transactions. The Finance & Payroll Manager will ensure payroll policies are adhered to and college-level processes are aligned with the University policies. The Manager will oversee human resource operations specifically for the college’s academic research job family, including hiring, onboarding, appointments, terminations, determining equitable salaries, and policies and procedures. This role will take the lead on the careful review and application of the L509 union contract relating to all new and continuing offers of employment to represented lecturers and will administer complex faculty actions in SAP, managing accrual work schedules, summer over base payments, and maintenance of positions for initial faculty appointments in BU Works.

Required Skills

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree required
• 3-5 years of related work experience, preferably in a financial role
• Ability to work with large quantities of data; strong analytical and Excel skills
• Proven experience working within an academic environment that supports sponsored research administration and federal award compliance, including experience working with the Office of Research and Postdoctoral affairs.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex University business systems to execute HR processes in BUWorks in an accurate and timely manner. Experience managing SAP business systems is highly desirable.
• Strong organizational, communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable with learning and troubleshooting new software systems
• Able to work independently and accurately with high attention to detail
• Must be highly organized, detail-oriented, time and deadline-sensitive, and able to perform using tact and discretion in a deadline-oriented environment.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

BU conducts a background check on all final candidates for certain faculty and staff positions. The background check includes contacting the final candidate’s current and previous employer(s) to ask whether, in the last 7 years, there has been a substantiated finding of misconduct violating that employer’s applicable sexual misconduct policies. To implement this process, the University requires a final candidate to complete and sign an authorization to release information” after execution of an offer letter.