Chief Financial Officer - HigherEdJobs

Institution:	Won Institute of Graduate Studies
Location:	Glenside, PA
Category:	Admin - Business and Financial Services
Posted:	06/21/2012
Application Due:	Open Until Filled
Type:	Full Time
Salary:	$50,000 to $60,000 USD Per Year

POSITION TYPE: Administration

JOB TITLE: Chief Financial Officer

REPORTS TO: President

DIRECT REPORTS: Finance Officer

Responsibilities

Reporting to the President, the Chief Financial Officer serves as the staff liaison to the Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees. The CFO is responsible for all financial transactions that affect the Won Institute across the operating and endowment accounts. The incumbent will partner with the senior leadership team and the Board of Trustees to develop and implement financial processes, programs, and strategies across the organization.

Responsibilities include the following:

• Oversee the accounting department to ensure proper maintenance of all accounting systems and functions, and supervising finance staff. Creates and maintains the appropriate segregation of duties regarding staff functions as they relate to account receivables, accounts payable, and credit card transaction. Ensures maintenance of appropriate internal controls and financial procedures. Ensures that all financial transactions are appropriately reported on the general ledger and reconciled to transactional documentation on a timely basis.
• Examines invoices and approves for processing
• Confirms the accuracy of payroll transmission
• Ensures proper processing of cash receipts and expenses related to petty cash, bookstore, and clinic transactions
• Oversees compliance with all Title IV regulations for reporting, accounting standards, and federal funds management.
• Oversees cash, investment, and asset management as well as all external financial services relationships. Manages and analyzes the cash flow ensuring the availability of cash to meet payroll and operating expense, including seasonal borrowing from bank line of credit.
• Prepares financial reports for review and analysis for the President and the Board of Trustees including quarterly financial, variance analysis, and budget projections of planning initiatives. Engage the President and Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees to develop short-, medium-, and long-term financial plans and projections.
• Prepares financial reports for accrediting and governmental agencies within prescribed due dates.
• Oversee the preparation and communication of monthly and annual financial statements, ensuring timeliness, accuracy, and usefulness of financial and management reporting for the President, senior management team and Board of Trustees.
• In coordination with the senior leadership team and staff, develops strategic plans and annual operating plans and budgets.
• Develops and utilizes forward-looking, predictive models and activity-based financial analyses to provide insight into the organization's operations and business plans. Serve on planning and policy-making committees.
• Develops and coordinates the budget development and approval process including budget templates and estimates of operating income and expenses for review by the President
• Coordinates internal and external audit reviews, regulatory reporting, and appropriate filing of tax schedules. Reviews and evaluates existing internal controls to ensure fiscal accountability and compliance with appropriate regulations.
• Ensure legal, regulatory, and GAAP compliance regarding all financial transactions and functions
• Coordinate the preparation of financial statements, financial reports, special analyses, and information reports
• Develops technology initiatives to ensure appropriate efficiencies and services. Creates, coordinates, and evaluates the financial programs and supporting information systems of the company to include bookkeeping, enrollment management, budgeting, tax planning, real estate, and conservation of assets.
• Clarifies, plans, and coordinates the transfer of financial roles and responsibilities to the finance function that were previously assumed by other members of the Institute's senior leadership team (in conjunction with the CAO).
• Coordinates with Chief Administrative Officer to ensure that student financial services which include financial aid, bursar, and registrar function (exclusive of academic policy consideration) comply with federal and state requirements. Works to ensure a student-focused and efficient process in the collection of fees and the servicing of student loan requests.
• With the president, chief academic officer, chief administrative officer and consistent with the priorities of the Board of Trustees, provides the necessary links between institutional planning and budgeting

Professional Development:

• Creates a Personal Development Plan which includes:
• Keeping current on legal, financial and other compliance matters specific to non-profit educational institutions.
• Professional conferences or webinars related to industry trends, strategic challenges and other developments affecting non-profit educational institutions
• Prepares an annual self-evaluation and review with the President
• Develops an understanding of "Best Practices" as they relate to financial administration.
• Recruit, train, supervise, and evaluate department staff (includes a detailed short- and long-term personal development program for the Director of Finance).

Qualifications

• B.S. in Finance or Accounting, a CPA and/or MBA preferred.
• Significant experience in, or, knowledge of nonprofit accounting, including student lending foundation, program, and grant accounting, compliance, Title IV funds, and reporting. Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Knowledge of monitoring and reporting of federal and state educational agencies.
• Knowledge of automated financial and accounting reporting systems; experience with Peachtree preferred, but not required. Experience with Populi enrollment management software a plus. Experience working with information technology specialists to manage finance and accounting software packages.
• Work requires professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to produce quality materials within specified timeframes and simultaneously manage multiple projects.
• Demonstrated leadership ability, and interpersonal skills enabling the incumbent to work in complex inter-functional and diverse cultural environment.
• Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, statements, and projections. Analytical, abstract reasoning skills and excellent organization skills.
• Experience in strategic planning and execution.
• Comfortable with and respectful of the institution vision, mission and goals

The Won Institute of Graduate Studies admits students of any race, color,religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status,military status, veteran?s status, or disability to all the rights, privileges, programs,and activities generally accorded or made available to students. It shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin,age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, military status, veterans status,or disability in administration of its educational policies, admission policies,employment policies, scholarship or loan programs, and other education related programs administered by the Institute. The Affirmative Action policy of the Won Institute is that all educational,admission and employment practices reflect the statements in the Policy of Non-Discrimination.

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No charge for man who killed daughter's molester

Carolina Astrain / Victoria Advocate via AP

File photo from June 16 showing a building near Shiner, Texas, where authorities say a father beat to death with his fists a man molesting his 5-year-old daughter on June 9.

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SHINER, Texas -- Hearing his 5-year-old daughter crying from behind a barn, a father ran and discovered the unthinkable: A man molesting her. The father pulled the man off his daughter, authorities say, and started pummeling him to death with his fists.

With his daughter finally safe, the father frantically called 911, begging a dispatcher to find his rural ranch and send an ambulance.?"Come on! This guy is going to die on me!" the man is heard screaming on the 911 call. "I don't know what to do!"

A recording of the tape was played during a news conference Tuesday where the Lavaca County district attorney and sheriff announced that the father will not face charges.

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In declining to indict the 23-year-old father in the June 9 killing of Jesus Mora Flores, a Lavaca County grand jury reached the same conclusion as investigators and many of the father's neighbors: He was authorized to use deadly force to protect his daughter.

"It's sad a man had to die," said Michael James Veit, 48, who lives across the street from where the attack happened in this small community run on ranching and the Shiner beer brewery. "But I think anybody would have done that."

Father's desperate 911 call
The family ranch is so remote that on the 911 tape, the father is heard screaming at a dispatcher who couldn't locate the property. At one point, he tells the dispatcher he's going to put the man in his truck and drive him to a hospital.

"He's going to die!" the father screams, swearing at the dispatcher. "He's going to f------ die!"

The tense, nearly five-minute call begins with the father saying he "beat up" a man found raping his daughter. The father grows increasingly frazzled, shouting into the phone so loudly at times that the call often becomes inaudible.

The Associated Press is not identifying the father in order to protect the daughter's identity. The AP generally does not identify victims of sexual assault.

"He's a peaceable soul," V'Anne Huser, the father's attorney, told reporters at the Lavaca County Courthouse.

The San Antonio Express reported that Huser said the father ?had no intention to kill anyone on that day.?

?In our opinion, the story is over. You will not get an interview from (the father) or his family,? she said, according to the paper, asking for the family to be left alone.

The attack happened on the family's ranch off a quiet, two-lane county road between the farming towns of Shiner and Yoakum.

Ran toward his child's screams
A statement released by the district attorney said a witness who saw Flores "forcibly carrying" the girl into a secluded area scrambled to find the father.

Running toward his daughter's screams, the father pulled Flores off his child and "inflicted several blows to the man's head and neck area," investigators said.

Emergency crews responding to the father's 911 call found Flores' pants and underwear pulled down on his lifeless body. The girl was examined at a hospital, and Lavaca County District Attorney Heather McMinn said forensic evidence and witness accounts corroborated the father's story that his daughter was being sexually molested.

The father was never arrested, but the killing was investigated as a homicide.

Philip Hilder, a Houston criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, said he would have been surprised if the grand jury had decided to indict the father. Hilder said Texas law provides several justifications for the use of deadly force, including if someone commits a sexual assault.

"The grand jury was not about to indict this father for protecting his daughter," he said.

Authorities said the family had hired Flores before to help with horses on the ranch. He was not born in the U.S., but was here legally with a green card. Attempts to locate Flores' relatives through public records were unsuccessful.

On Tuesday, a new "No Trespassing" sign was freshly tacked onto a gate barring entrance down a gravelly, shrub-canopied path leading to the barn and chicken coop on the ranch, which belonged to the father's dad.

At the father's house, the front yard could pass for a children's playground: Blue pinwheels sunk into patchy grass, an above-ground swimming pool, a swing set, a trampoline and a couple of ropes dangling from a tree for swinging. A partial privacy fence is painted powder blue.

No one answered at the father's home. A few miles away, at a home listed as belonging to the father's sister, a woman shouted through the front door that the family had nothing to say. Huser, the father's attorney, told reporters that neither the father nor anyone else in the family would ever give interviews and asked that they be left alone.

Veit, who lives near the ranch, described the father as easygoing and polite ? down to always first asking permission to search Veit's property for animals that had wandered off the ranch, even though the families have long known each other.

Veit's son was a classmate of the father's at Shiner High School in a graduating class of about two dozen. Veit, 48, said the young father was never known to be in trouble.

"Just like a regular kid, went to dances, drank beer like the rest of the kids around here," Veit said.

'Traumatized for life'
Shiner, a town of about 2,000 people about 80 miles east of San Antonio, revolves around the Spoetzl Brewery that makes Shiner, one of the nation's best-selling independent beers. Even gas stations here sell it on tap.

Flores' death is only the sixth homicide the Lavaca County Sheriff's Office has investigated in the last eight years. Shiner residents boast their squeaky-clean image on a highway welcome sign: "The Cleanest Little City in Texas."

At Werner's Restaurant, customer Gail Allen said she didn't want to speak for the whole town, though her comments echoed what others said.

"The father has gone through enough," said Allen, 59, who has nine grandchildren. "The little girl is going to be traumatized for life, and the father, too, for what happened. He was protecting his family. Any parent would do that."

Patrons at Howard's Convenience Store told the San Antonio Express that they also backed the father.

?I think it's great, they should have given him a medal for what he did, defending his daughter,? Leroy Wagner, 79, told the paper.

?He was being a responsible father, any responsible father would have done the same thing,? added Joe Marek, 59, a local electrician.

And Victor Casper, 65, a retired county worker, told the Epxress, ?If it was my kids, I would have done the same thing. I would have defended them, too.?

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Ancient googly-eyed god uncovered in Egypt

A newly identified googly-eyed artifact may have been used by the ancient Egyptians to magically protect children and pregnant mothers from evil forces.

Made of faience, a delicate material that contains silica, the pale-green talisman of sorts dates to sometime in the first millennium B.C. It shows the dwarf god Bes with his tongue sticking out, eyes googly, wearing a crown of feathers. A hole at the top of the face was likely used to suspend it like a bell, while a second hole, used to hold the bell clapper, was apparently drilled into it in antiquity.

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Carolyn Graves-Brown, a curator at the Egypt Center, discovered the artifact in the collection of Woking College, the equivalent of a high school for juniors and seniors. The college has more than 50 little-studied Egyptian artifacts, which were recently lent to the Egypt Center at Swansea University where they are being studied and documented. [ Gallery: Amazing Egyptian Discoveries ]

Graves-Brown told LiveScience in an interview that at first she didn't know what the object was. It wasn't until she learned of a similar artifact in the British Museum that she was able to determine that it is a faience Bes bell, one of a very few known to exist.

"If you try to rattle it much it would (have) broken easily," she said.

However, while faience is breakable, it held magical properties. "Faience is very often used for objects that have a magical or religious significance in ancient Egypt," Graves-Brown said.

Making the find more intriguing is the quirky character of Bes himself. A dwarf god and protector of pregnant mothers and young children, Bes may look goofy to us with his tongue sticking out, but his appearance, tongue and all, had a purpose. Graves-Brown explained that he would sometimes bare sharp teeth and "it's assumed, but it's not known, that this (appearance) was supposed to scare off evil spirits and evil entities."

That may well have been the intent of this object. Flinders Petrie, an archaeologist who encountered items similar to this, wrote in 1914 in his book "Amulets" (Constable and Company, 1914) that bells like these were probably "worn by children against the evil eye."

Graves-Brown exercises caution. She points out that none of the few surviving examples of this artifact have been found in their original archaeological context.

It could be that faience Bes bells, like this one, were worn by pregnant mothers and/or children as magical protection against evil forces. Another possibility is that the bell was placed near a child, perhaps where the child slept.

However, there could be another explanation for the object altogether.

"The Egyptians often made models of objects used in everyday life out of faience (and) gave them as gifts to the gods," she said, leaving open the possibility that this artifact was actually deposited in an Egyptian temple.

Whatever its exact use was in antiquity, Egyptologists can take heart in the fact that Bes, a protector of young children, will be going to work for the kids again. Graves-Brown said the Egypt Center has a program for school kids of all ages and, given that the artifacts are from Woking College, they hope to use them to get teenagers interested in Egyptology.

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