Business Manager

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By engaging with and empowering our exceptionally diverse populations, and addressing their questions and fears, we will engender hope for cancer patients and their families and play a critical role in strengthening the fabric of our communities by gaining and protecting their trust and providing access to the outstanding oncology care each person deserves.

• Our mission is to accelerate scientific discovery focused on understanding cancer, innovating cancer treatment, and improving cancer prevention;
• to provide outstanding, novel, and compassionate patient care; to provide evidence-based and culturally informed education to physicians, nurses, researchers, staff, and the community;

and to achieve cancer health equity in our state through outreach to and engagement of our extraordinarily diverse communities.

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Posting Summary

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Business Manager within the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

Under the direction of the Associate Directors of Finance, and in close collaboration with the Program Lead(s), the Business Manager is responsible for the business management of the Assigned Programs.

The Business Manager maintains thorough knowledge of Program plans, goals, and activities, and works closely with the Program Lead(s) on business / financial planning and evaluation.

The Business Manager is responsible for maintaining the integrated financial profiles of all investigators within Assigned Programs, producing meaningful data analysis to support decision making, and developing financial forecasting and presentation data.

The Business Manager oversees the day-to-day administrative grants management of all projects, grants, contracts and other restricted accounts and related functions associated with research, sponsored programs, and restricted as well as unrestricted funds activities of Assigned Programs at Rutgers Cancer Institute.

Ensures that both pre and post- award activities comply with Federal and State, University, and Sponsor requirements and acts as a liaison with other University departments.

Key Duties

• Serves as the primary business partner of and maintains close communication with the Assigned Program Leader(s).
• Participates in Assigned Program(s) planning and operating committees and meetings to ensure a thorough understanding of Center goals, objectives and activities and an ability to provide well-informed business guidance.
• Maintains the integrated (restricted and unrestricted) financial profiles of the Assigned Program(s) as a whole and of all investigators within the Assigned Program.
• Produces meaningful data analysis to support decision making and develops financial forecasting and reporting.
• Provides accounting management involving accountability for effective internal systems and controls within University financial policy for tracking income and expenditures.
• Responsible for oversight and management of Assigned Program(s) operating budgets. Provides oversight and management of department operating budgets (expenses and revenue), sponsored research, contract and gift funds, federal funds, and endowments.
• Provides relevant reports for department leadership including financial, clinical, research and teaching productivity.
• Creates effective work plans and works closely with staff by supervising and addressing their training needs in order to achieve competency of work performance and understanding of personnel and non-personnel operating budgets.

Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree is required.
• Five (5) years of related experience involving research and sponsored programs administration, budgets, and financial analyses is required.
• Two (2) years of experience in personnel supervision required.
• Equivalent education and / or training may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Required to have knowledge and expertise of Federal and State agency regulations, policies, procedures and laws applicable to sponsored program activities;

a deep understanding of proposal development, finding funding, Institutional Review Board regulations, clinical procedures and protocols, accounting / finance, and other grant related activities.

• Maintaining confidentiality is required.
• The ideal candidate will have excellent business acumen, accounting skills, detail oriented, and excellent organizational skills.
• Extensive experience with research and sponsored programs administration, budgeting, and financial analyses, ideally in an academic environment.
• Proficient in computer applications at an advanced level (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, be able to resourceful by maximizing the utilization of the Rutgers resources.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred degree in Business Administration, Health Administration, or a related field.
• Master’s Degree preferred.
• Experience in an academic environment is ideal.
• The ability to supervise in a unionized environment is preferred.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

PHYSICAL DEMANDS : Standing, sitting, walking, talking and hearing. No special vision requirements. Lifting up to 25 lbs.

Posting Details

Posting Number : 24ST1548

Posting Open Date : 06 / 24 / 2024

Regional Campus : Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS)

Home Location Campus : Downtown New Brunswick

City : New Brunswick

State : NJ

Pre-employment Screenings

All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of all pre-employment screenings.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation with regard to your access to and / or your participation in the application and selection processes, please contact us.

Affirmative Action / Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

It is university policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment regardless of their race, creed, color, national origin, age, ancestry, nationality, marital or domestic partnership or civil union status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability status, liability for military service, protected veteran status, affectional or sexual orientation, atypical cellular or blood trait, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), or any other category protected by law.

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