Senior Associate Vice President of Finance

Qualifications

The successful candidate must be both an effective executive who can lead a pragmatic financial vision and transformation across the university, and a highly sophisticated finance professional with technical expertise in several areas. This “breadth and depth” skillset is critical to success as Stanford’s SAVP, who must partner with multiple colleagues  and  departments across the industry to implement, execute, communicate, and carry out strategies to support and enhance the university's mission campus-wide.

The successful candidate will have many of the following experiences and competences.

• Positive, successful, high impact management and leadership of financial operations in higher education or in an industry with similar and/or related characteristics.  Technically proficient across financial disciplines.
• Experience in major systems development and implementation.
• Strategic vision to drive innovation and efficiency, in both the short and long term.
• Demonstrated success in navigating and leading organizations through change.
• Understanding of laws, regulations, systems and procedures to support internal control and external reporting and compliance requirements, and the ability to balance these requirements with a customer service approach to FMS clients.
• Demonstrated skill and ability to create a shared vision for the organization and lead and inspire staff to execute on the organization’s commitment to the university and its diverse constituencies; leading with a customer service focus. Commitment to staff development allowing for learning from failure, as well as from success.
• Ability to work effectively in a consultative decision-making culture.
• Ability to represent the university in the local and global community to provide effective interaction with vendors, donors, government agencies, auditors and other constituents.
• Excellent oral and written communication skill for effective communications to various audiences, including reporting to the Board of Trustees. In this context, communication requires excellent listening as well as presentation skills.
• Personal attributes – including integrity, patience, flexibility, adaptability, persistence, sound judgement and tact – necessary to deal in a decentralized, collaborative, inter-dependent environment.

Stanford is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
 
Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of the job.