Virginia Tech
Associate Director, Finance and Planning
🇺🇸
Blacksburg, VA
🕑
Full-Time
💰
$85K - $95K
💻
Finance
🗓️
March 12th, 2026
SQL
Edtech.com's Summary
Virginia Tech is hiring an Associate Director, Finance and Planning. This role leads financial administration and oversight across multiple Student Affairs departments, supervises staff, manages budget reporting and reconciliations, ensures compliance, and supports audit preparedness while fostering teamwork and providing strategic financial guidance.
Highlights
- Lead financial administration and planning for Student Affairs departments with emphasis on Residential, AEDS, Central, Communication, HR, and IT.
- Supervise staff and maintain monthly financial and budget reports.
- Manage reconciliations for state and foundational funds, payroll, purchase card activity, and fixed assets.
- Oversee fiscal functions, internal controls, business compliance, and provide training on new business systems.
- Required qualifications include a Master's degree (or Bachelor's with significant experience), higher education financial experience, detailed accounting and reconciliation skills.
- Preferred skills include proficiency with Banner, HokieMart, Microstrategy, HokieServ, Windows OS, Microsoft Office suite, and SQL.
- Salary range between $85,000-$95,000, with comprehensive benefits including health insurance, paid leave, retirement, tuition assistance, and discounts.
- Reports to the Director of Finance in a 12-month administrative professional appointment.
- Commitment to customer service, teamwork, collaboration, diversity, and ethical standards.
- Requires successful completion of a criminal conviction check.
Associate Director, Finance and Planning Full Description
We are seeking an Associate Director, Finance and Planning to join the Student Affairs’ Finance and Planning team in Blacksburg, VA. This role plays a vital part in providing support across multiple Student Affairs departments, with a major focus on Residential, AEDS, Central, Communication, HR and IT with a secondary focus on Dining and E&G departments.
If you are a strategic leader with a superior orientation towards detail, action, solutions and quality, this could be the job for you!
Job Description
HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ROLE:
1) You’ll be joining the Finance and Planning team, a department committed to delivering exceptional financial stewardship and strategic support to enhance our division's impact.
2) You’ll be reporting to the Director of Finance, in a Regular twelve-month, 100% administrative professional appointment.
3) You’ll provide leadership in financial administration, foster teamwork and collaboration, and demonstrate a high commitment to customer service by applying extensive knowledge, skills and management experience in oversight of daily financial and administrative functions.
4) You'll supervise staff; maintain and update monthly financial and budget reports; provide management and oversight of reconciliations for state and Foundational funds, payroll, purchase card activity and fixed assets; provide oversight for fiscal functions and business compliance and maintenance of internal controls; provide training on new business systems and proactively monitor actions for audit concerns.
5) You’ll have the chance to grow and take advantage of a developmental plan with opportunities to advance within the Department and the Division.
6) You’ll be offered a base compensation package between $85,000-$95,000, along with a comprehensive benefits package which includes health insurance, paid leave, retirement, tuition assistance, VT discounts, and so much more!
2) You’ll be reporting to the Director of Finance, in a Regular twelve-month, 100% administrative professional appointment.
3) You’ll provide leadership in financial administration, foster teamwork and collaboration, and demonstrate a high commitment to customer service by applying extensive knowledge, skills and management experience in oversight of daily financial and administrative functions.
4) You'll supervise staff; maintain and update monthly financial and budget reports; provide management and oversight of reconciliations for state and Foundational funds, payroll, purchase card activity and fixed assets; provide oversight for fiscal functions and business compliance and maintenance of internal controls; provide training on new business systems and proactively monitor actions for audit concerns.
5) You’ll have the chance to grow and take advantage of a developmental plan with opportunities to advance within the Department and the Division.
6) You’ll be offered a base compensation package between $85,000-$95,000, along with a comprehensive benefits package which includes health insurance, paid leave, retirement, tuition assistance, VT discounts, and so much more!
HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY:
1) THE UNIVERSITY: Virginia tech as an employer, is committed to developing well-rounded employees who are active members of the university community as well as the community at-large. From comprehensive insurance plans to tuition assistance, Virginia Tech offers employees a variety of benefits and perks to help team members build a fuller and more balanced life.
2) THE DIVISION: For our students and ourselves, the Division of Student Affairs believes that changing the world requires courageous leadership and commitment to curiosity, integrity, civility, and service to others. Our culture is defined by a commitment to our aspirations for student learning.
3) THE TEAM: Student Affairs Finance and Planning work hand in hand with our colleagues to provide dependable, responsive guidance for planning, budgeting, accounting, purchasing and reimbursement - so they can stay focused on what matters most: our students. With integrity, care, and a spirit of service, we help Student Affairs thrive.
2) THE DIVISION: For our students and ourselves, the Division of Student Affairs believes that changing the world requires courageous leadership and commitment to curiosity, integrity, civility, and service to others. Our culture is defined by a commitment to our aspirations for student learning.
3) THE TEAM: Student Affairs Finance and Planning work hand in hand with our colleagues to provide dependable, responsive guidance for planning, budgeting, accounting, purchasing and reimbursement - so they can stay focused on what matters most: our students. With integrity, care, and a spirit of service, we help Student Affairs thrive.
Required Qualifications
• Master's degree in Public or Business Administration, finance, economics, or related field or a Bachelor's degree with significant training and/or experience, which equals an advanced degree.
• Experience in a financial role in higher education, with exposure to fund accounting, budgeting, payroll, funds handling, procurement, and accounts receivable.
• Demonstrated successful experience in performing detailed accounting work and reconciliations.
• Knowledge of university policies and procedures and demonstrated experience following and communicating financial policies and procedures.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to quality and continuous professional development.
• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to cultivate positive working relationships, foster teamwork and support collaboration.
• High personal and professional ethical standards and a demonstrated commitment to diversity
• Experience in a financial role in higher education, with exposure to fund accounting, budgeting, payroll, funds handling, procurement, and accounts receivable.
• Demonstrated successful experience in performing detailed accounting work and reconciliations.
• Knowledge of university policies and procedures and demonstrated experience following and communicating financial policies and procedures.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to quality and continuous professional development.
• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to cultivate positive working relationships, foster teamwork and support collaboration.
• High personal and professional ethical standards and a demonstrated commitment to diversity
Preferred Qualifications
• Demonstrated knowledge of computer software including Banner, HokieMart, Microstrategy, HokieServ, Windows Operating System, and Microsoft Office to include Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and SQL.
• Demonstrated success in a supervisory capacity
• Demonstrated success in a supervisory capacity
Overtime Status
Exempt: Not eligible for overtime
Appointment Type
Regular
Salary Information
$85,000-95,000
Hours per week
40
Review Date
April 3, 2026
Additional Information
The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.
About Virginia Tech
Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech pushes the boundaries of knowledge by taking a hands-on, transdisciplinary approach to preparing scholars to be leaders and problem-solvers. A comprehensive land-grant institution that enhances the quality of life in Virginia and throughout the world, Virginia Tech is an inclusive community dedicated to knowledge, discovery, and creativity. The university offers more than 280 majors to a diverse enrollment of more than 36,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in eight undergraduate colleges, a school of medicine, a veterinary medicine college, Graduate School, and Honors College. The university has a significant presence across Virginia, including Blacksburg, the greater Washington, D.C. area, the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke, sites in Newport News and Richmond, and numerous Extension offices and research institutes. A leading global research institution, Virginia Tech conducts more than $650 million in research annually.
Virginia Tech endorses and encourages participation in professional development opportunities and university shared governance. These valuable contributions to university shared governance provide important representation and perspective, along with opportunities for unique and impactful professional development.
Virginia Tech does not discriminate against employees, students, or applicants on the basis of age, color, disability, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, ethnicity or national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, or military status, or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants, or on any other basis protected by law.
If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact Amber Mullen at amullen@vt.edu during regular business hours at least 10 business days prior to the event.
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