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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY Valley Metro RPTA Senior Business Manager: Transportation & Maintenance Valley Metro is an Equal Opportunity Employer FLSA: Exempt position, not eligible for overtime compensation.
OPENING DATE: 01/24/23
CLOSING DATE: 02/07/23 05:00 PM
SUMMARY: The Senior Business Manager reports to the Chief Financial Officer. This position is responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing the business office staff and activities in support of the Chief Transportation Officer (CTO) and Chief Maintenance Officer (CMO) and their respective divisions. The Senior Business Manager serves as the point of contact with Valley Metro's Finance & Procurement Division.
This senior leader will support the CTO and CMO throughout the year by providing technical assistance in the development of their annual budget requests, tracking expenditures, supervising the purchasing of goods and services, coordinating the development of requests for proposals, supervising the approval of payments, and the close-out of the year's budget and purchase orders. The FY23 combined Operating Budget is $172,817,000 and Capital Budget is $103,944.000.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS Human Resources reserves the right to call only the most qualified applicants to the selection process. Bachelor's Degree in Business, Public Administration, Finance, or a field related to the work AND Five (5) years of full-time professional level experience in business operations, preferably in a large public agency setting, including at least three (3) years supervisory/management experience. Master's Degree desirable Equivalent combination of formal education and appropriate related experience may be considered. Background Investigation: Employment is contingent upon the results of a background check.
Valid Arizona driver's license and ability to maintain insurability.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES / KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS The statements listed below describe the general nature and level of work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time. Plans, organizes, and manages the business office functions and staff providing budget, purchasing, and contract administration support to Valley Metro's Transportation and Maintenance divisions. Serves as the primary liaison with Valley Metro's Finance and Procurement Division for budget, accounting, and procurement activities.
Provides technical assistance to the Chief Transportation Officer (CTO) and Chief Maintenance Officer (CMO) in the development of their annual budget requests.
Monitors use of the approved budgets, staffing the CTO and CMO to enable them to manage their divisions' resources.
Coordinates with Valley Metro's Budget Department to manage the expenditure plans of the two divisions and to facilitate funding transfers between categories within each division.
Manages staff providing purchasing and payment support to the Transportation and Maintenance Divisions. Including establishing requisitions, developing purchase orders, change orders, and the review of invoices and receivers for the payment of vendors. Valley Metro's enterprise resources management system, CORE, and its inventory systems.
Supervises the on-site support of procurement activities for the Transportation and Maintenance Divisions. Including facilitating the development of requests for proposals and sole source justifications with transportation and maintenance subject matter experts, the development of independent cost estimates, providing financial analysis in support of bid analysis, contract change order requests, and obtaining vendors' bids for requests for quotes.
Plans, organizes, administers, reviews and evaluations the activities of professional, technical and office administrative staff in assigned areas of responsibility. Oversees or provides for the selection, training, and professional development of staff.
Develops and directs the implementation of goals, objectives, policies, procedures, and work standards in support of the business office activities.
Develops a variety of written correspondence, board agendas, memoranda, statistical reports, other written materials on behalf of the CTO and CMO.
Works in collaboration with Valley Metro's Risk Manager to provision light rail vehicle accident cost data.
Performs other duties of similar nature and level as assigned.
Knowledge of: Public sector budgeting practices, including budget development, cost forecasting, and expenditure monitoring and reporting; Principles and use of fund accounting; Computer applications related to the work; Public sector procurement practices including requests for proposals (RFP), requests for information (RFI), requests for quotations (RFQ), invitations for bids (IFB), and sole source justifications; Development of independent cost estimates (ICE); Principles and use of internal financial controls. Supervisory principles and practices.Skill in: Customer service focus; Management skills; Utilizing personal computer software programs affecting assigned work and compiling and preparing spreadsheets and reports; Communicating business issues to policymakers, executive management, functional managers, and staff; Problem resolution, negotiation, and influencing skills;Cross divisional collaboration and project management; Preparing and communicating informational material for stakeholders; Communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with those encountered in the course of work.PHYSICAL DEMANDS / WORK ENVIRONMENT Mobility to work in a typical office setting, use standard office equipment, and to drive a motor vehicle to visit work sites and attend meetings; vision to read printed materials and a computer screen; and hearing and speech to communicate in person or over the telephone. Accommodation may be made for some of these physical demands for otherwise qualified individuals who require and request such accommodation.
Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
Valley Metro is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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