Chief Financial Officer
- Employer
- Albion College
- Location
- Michigan, United States
- Salary
- Competitive Salary
- Date posted
- Aug 19, 2020
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- Position Type
- Administrative, Business & Administrative Affairs, Financial Affairs, Executive, Other Executive
- Employment Level
- Executive
- Employment Type
- Full Time
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
ALBION COLLEGE
Albion, Michigan
The Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with Albion College
in the search for a Chief Financial Officer.
Reporting to the College President, the Chief Financial Officer
will direct the financial functions of Albion College, including
assurance of the accuracy and conformance of financial statements
with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP); maintaining
an effective system of management and operational budgeting,
financial reporting, internal controls and analysis to support key
decisions; assuring compliance with legal, financial, and statutory
regulations; maintaining an effective financial risk management
program; overseeing treasury operations and cash management;
effectively working with the investment committee of the board on
endowment management; leading an effective program for evaluation
of capital projects; managing an effective long-term financial
planning process, all with the goals and objectives of the College
and President central to each function.
The Chief Financial Officer will partner with the President to
develop mid- and long-term financial strategies for the College. A
results-driven, collaborative, and complex problem-solver, the
Chief Financial Officer will be comfortable making high-level
decisions on behalf of the college, and be accountable for those
decisions. The Chief Financial Officer will partner with the
President in transformational leadership of the institution and
work effectively with the senior leadership of the College.
Albion College is an undergraduate institution committed to liberal
education in the arts and sciences. Such an education empowers
individuals to live lives of constructive purpose and
accomplishment, enriched by the confidence and pleasure that come
from thinking logically, imaginatively, and humanely. In light of
this vision Albion College seeks to create and maintain a
supportive, intellectually stimulating community which exhibits and
prizes curiosity, creativity, dissent, and diversity.
Teaching and learning are central to the mission of Albion College.
This means that while faculty members are productive in scholarly
and creative endeavors, their primary commitment is to teaching –
specifically to fostering the intellectual engagement and growth of
students.
In recruiting new members to the Albion College community, the
college seeks individuals of intellectual promise from various
racial, class, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds, whose
perspectives can contribute to a process of mutual education within
and outside the curriculum. This aim can best be achieved in an
environment where individuals value differences and enter into
constructive dialogue toward common goals. By pursuing its
educational mission, all members of the Albion community will grow
in the capacity to work, live, and serve effectively with
others.
Albion College is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and
nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, race, color,
ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, gender
expression, age, disability, marital status, or veteran status as
protected by law, in all educational programs and activities,
admission of students, and conditions of employment.
A bachelor's degree is required for this position as is significant
progressive professional experience in finance, investment,
endowment management, investment banking, debt and cash management,
insurance, contracts, and risk management, treasurer, controller,
and other senior financial functions. A master's degree (MA or MBA)
is preferred as is Certified Public Account licensure and higher
education experience. All applications must be accompanied by a
cover letter and résumé. Cover letters should be responsive to the
mission of Albion College.
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