Vice President of Finance and Administration
Minnesota State College Southeast seeks a strategic, innovative, collaborative, and transparent financial leader as its Vice President of Finance and Administration who will collaborate with the President in developing financial strategy, budgets, and financial practices aligned to the college’s mission. The VPFA will develop, analyze, and implement effective and innovative budget, financial, and administrative strategies for the college. The Ideal candidate will be an experienced financial executive who fosters continued innovation, creates new opportunities for revenue growth, has a passion for equity and inclusion, and makes data-informed decisions with a tolerance for risk.
Full-time position with a Competitive Salary, Flexible Workplace, Innovative Culture, and a Comprehensive Benefits Package including paid vacation, paid sick leave, medical, dental, vision, basic and optional life insurances, flex spending plans, retirement/pension plans with company match, additional voluntary retirement plans, 11 paid company holidays, tuition waiver, employee assistance program.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance or accounting or related area required.
- Five years of progressively responsible experience as a leader in business, finance or accounting, and supervisory leadership experience.
- Experience using data-informed evidence and proven practices to analyze critical issues and implement solutions.
- Record of leading innovation and organizational change.
- Proven commitment and evidence of success in building an equitable and inclusive organization.
- Evidence of high standards of honesty, integrity, trust, transparency, confidentiality, and ethical behavior.
- Demonstrated history as a collaborative leader, working with cross-functional teams to achieve institution goals.
- Ability to effectively articulate financial matters to stakeholders in understandable terms, and to address college-wide operational issues.
- Working knowledge and understanding of the use and application of information technology systems.
- Strong communication skills and a demonstrated ability to interact professionally with employees at all levels of the organization and with internal and external constituencies.
- Demonstrated success in building and maintaining partnerships with businesses, K-12 or other educational organizations or a comparable partnership experience.
- Strong business acumen, with demonstrated expertise in financial planning, budget development, audit management, strategic and master planning, and construction planning.
Main office location on either our Red Wing or Winona campus; however, regular travel between campuses is required. Relocation assistance is available!
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