Job Posting Title:

Financial Officer, Texas Institute for Electronics

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Hiring Department:

Cockrell School of Engineering

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Exempt

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Earliest Start Date:

Immediately

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

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Location:

PICKLE RESEARCH CAMPUS

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Job Details:

About Us

The Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE) is a University of Texas at Austin-supported semiconductor consortium of state and local government, preeminent defense electronics and semiconductor companies, national labs and nationally recognized academic institutions. Our mission is to develop and execute a state-of-the-art 3D Heterogenous Integration manufacturing technology roadmap, and to provide critical pilot manufacturing capabilities to address national security needs and catalyze domestic economic growth.

 

Join the Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE) and help us push the boundaries in critical semiconductor domains, including advanced packaging, with the aim of reestablishing U.S. prominence in semiconductor manufacturing.

 

With over $1 billion in funding from the US DoD and the state of Texas, we’re at the forefront of creating cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing equipment and processes that will set the course for future advancements in semiconductor logic, memory, heterogeneous integration, chip cooling and more. Situated in the heart of Austin — named “America’s Coolest City” by Expedia and “The Best Place to Live in the U.S.” by U.S. News and World Report — the Texas Institute for Electronics embodies the city’s innovative spirit.

 

UT Austin, recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Large Employers, provides outstanding employee benefits and total rewards packages that include:

Competitive health benefits (employee premiums covered at 100%, family premiums at 50%)

Voluntary Vision, Dental, Life, and Disability insurance options

Generous paid vacation, sick time, and holidays

Teachers Retirement System of Texas, a defined benefit retirement plan, with 8.25% employer matching funds

Additional Voluntary Retirement Programs: Tax Sheltered Annuity 403(b) and a Deferred Compensation program 457(b)

Flexible spending account options for medical and childcare expenses

Robust free training access through LinkedIn Learning plus professional conference opportunities

Tuition assistance

Expansive employee discount program including athletic tickets

Free access to UT Austin's libraries and museums with staff ID card

Free rides on all UT Shuttle and Austin CapMetro buses with staff ID card

       For more details, please see: Benefits | Human Resources and UT Austin Employee Experience | Human Resources

Purpose

This position provides advanced financial planning and analysis to the Texas Institute for Electronics and is a crucial member of the Finance team, playing a vital role to support business development models, budget preparation, financial reporting, and forecasting, development of pro forma financials for projects, grant applications, programs and other initiatives.

Responsibilities

Financial Analysis, Planning, and Reporting:

Create queries to gather, clean, validate, merge and maintain data sets from multiple sources.  Conduct workflow analysis, needs assessments, and preliminary cost/benefit analysis to identify and recommend improvements to business processes.

Prepare comprehensive financial reports and presentations for management, stakeholders, regulatory bodies, and other organizations.  Perform impact analysis and maintain complex databases to conduct comprehensive financial and technical analysis.  Develop a departmental financial report dashboard.  Conduct monthly, quarterly, and multi-year forecasts.

Apply statistical methods to datasets to analyze current state.  Perform gap, variance, or trend analysis to identify trends, patterns, opportunities and efficiencies.  Analyze performance against budgets and provide actionable insights and recommendations.

Coordinate with business leadership to identify organizational needs. Ability to understand and break down business needs into data-answerable questions.  Communicate key data in a user-friendly and concise manner to individuals with varying levels of financial acumen, including presentations to program managers, senior management, and cross-functional team members.

Process Improvements:

Recommend and assist with projects to document, modernize, streamline, and implement improvements to enhance processes and create efficiencies. Develop procedural documentation.

Compliance:

Ensure all processes are documented, performed utilizing best practices, and complies with departmental, college/CSU, university, state, and/or federal policies and procedures. Ensure data and files comply with university records retention requirement. Participate in gathering data for audit requests.​

General:

Act as backup to team members. Assist with review and approval of departmental payments and procurement functions. Assist with preparation of annual budgets, communicate schedules and organize necessary information for leadership review.

Assist in ad-hoc projects. Participate in continued professional development.

Other duties as assigned by supervisor, including assisting in duties outside of regular job duties.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field.

Minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in finance or accounting with experience in planning, forecasting, cost and financial analysis.

Proven advanced capability in Microsoft Excel. Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Power BI, SQL, or other business intelligence and data analytical applications/systems.

Proven experience in financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.

Strong facilitation and organizational skills.

Excellent problem-solving skills; analytical, creative, and/or mathematical problem-solving.

Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.

Ability to effectively prioritize and execute multiple projects work to deliver high-quality system solutions in a fast-paced environment with constant deadlines.

Technical aptitude, initiative, creativity, including strong customer-service orientation and experience working in a team-oriented environment.

Able to quickly adapt to new circumstances, information, and challenges.

Ability to be discreet with confidential matters and to use sound judgment to facilitate independent decisions.

Ability to understand and break down business needs into data-answerable questions.

Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer without sponsorship.

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced degree from an accredited college or university.

Experience in higher education

Current business analyst certification

Demonstrated knowledge of UT Austin’s core business processes and operations.

Salary Range

$100,000 + depending on qualifications

Working Conditions

May work around standard office conditions

Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation

Use of manual dexterity (ex: using a mouse)

Occasional nights/weekends required

Occasional travel required

Work Shift

This job offers flextime, the ability to have a work scheduling falling between 7am and 6pm.

Required Materials

Resume/CV

3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisorLetter of interest

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded.  Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.

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Employment Eligibility:

Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.

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Retirement Plan Eligibility:

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

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Background Checks:

A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.

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Equal Opportunity Employer:

The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.

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Pay Transparency:

The University of Texas at Austin will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

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Employment Eligibility Verification:

If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form.  You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States.  Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment.  Failure to do so will result in loss of employment at the university.

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E-Verify:

The University of Texas at Austin use E-Verify to check the work authorization of all new hires effective May 2015. The university’s company ID number for purposes of E-Verify is 854197. For more information about E-Verify, please see the following:

E-Verify Poster (English) [PDF]E-Verify Poster (Spanish) [PDF]Right To Work Poster (English) [PDF]Right To Work Poster (Spanish) [PDF]

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Compliance:

Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). If this position is identified a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified and provided resources for reporting. Responsible employees under Title IX are defined and outlined in HOP-3031.

The Clery Act requires all prospective employees be notified of the availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety report. You may access the most recent report here or obtain a copy at University Compliance Services, 1616 Guadalupe Street, UTA 2.206, Austin, Texas 78701.