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Director of Finance

General Information

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Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Onsite or Remote

Flexible Hybrid

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm

Posted Date

08/28/2026

Salary Range: $98200 - 214600 Annually

Employment Type

2 - Staff: Career

Duration

Indefinite

Job #

32888

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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The Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology is seeking a collaborative Director of Finance to provide strategic financial leadership for a dynamic, research-intensive academic department. Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and Director of Operations, this position oversees departmental finance, fund management, procurement, and research administration while leading a high-performing team that supports faculty across pre- and post-award activities. The Director of Finance partners closely with departmental leadership to drive financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and compliance, ensuring the effective stewardship of sponsored and non-sponsored funds and serving as the department's primary liaison with campus and funding agencies to advance its research, education, and clinical missions.

Annual range: $98,200.00-$214,600.00

Job Qualifications

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Required:

• Supervisory experience overseeing a team responsible for managing Federally funded research grants from application to closeout.
• Minimum 7 years of related experience or training
• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge of OMB Circular A-21, A-110 and A-133 policies and procedures regarding contract and grant management.
• Demonstrated ability in perceiving and defining cause and effect relationships between expenditure rates and budgetary projections.
• Utilizes general accounting practices, in particular the accounting policies and procedures of the University of California.
• Demonstrated PC skills, including proficiency with Excel and Microsoft Word
• Ability to handle high volume of work with changing priorities and constant interruptions to establish priorities and meet deadlines.
• Analytical skills to assess personnel and financial information practices and procedures, define problem, formulate logical solutions, develop alternative solutions, make recommendations, and initiate corrective actions.
• Demonstrated ability in multi-million dollar contract and grants pre and post award management.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Office of Contract and Grant Administration, Extra Mural Fund Management, and Corporate/ General Accounting policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated skill in supervising groups of employees, including hiring, training, motivating and evaluating performance.
• Interpersonal skills to establish and maintain a cooperative working relationship with administrators, staff, faculty and students.

Preferred:

• Expertise in fund accounting and performance metrics of research intensive health systems.
• Experience with the University's on-line system including transfer of funds (TOF), purchasing (BruinBuy), personnel and payroll (UCPath), expense transfers (NPEAR and SCTs), query database (QDB), effort reporting (ERS), etc.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.

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