What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Manager position at illinois?
Duties & Responsibilities -
Library Contracts and Business Support
- Manage negotiated agreements from invoicing to payment, ensuring consistency and accuracy of terms throughout the process
- Annotate and organize completed agreements
- Assist in drafting Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) and financial agreements with external partners, vendors, and organizations
- Manage billing communications, including follow-ups on outstanding invoices and discrepancy resolution
- Maintain both internal and member-facing financial dashboards and reporting tools
Library Initiatives Financial Management
- Audit and manage budgets for Center for Library Programs activities, including verifying invoices, assigning accounting codes, and processing for payment
- Gather, review, analyze, and generate visualizations of data for financial reports
- Maintain dashboards and reporting tools to help others understand business performance
- Assists with the organization and delivery of the annual financial audit
Financial Accounting Support
- Work closely with the Assistant Director for Accounting to oversee business operations across all BTAA departments including travel regulations, insurance coverage, etc.
- Collaborate with staff members to identify potential areas for cross-departmental improvements
- Develop and organize staff training for existing and future operational processes and system implementations
- With assistance from the finance team, gather, analyze, and interpret external and internal data to develop reports that assist management with organizational strategic directions
- Monitors business transactions and prompt staff whose tasks are past due
- Serve as backup for Accounting Associate and Office Manager
