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Posting Number TSU203768
Official TSU Title Executive Director, Business Intelligence and Technology Solutions
Grant Title n/a
Job Description Summary / TWC Summary JOB SUMMARY:
The Executive Director of Business Intelligence and Technology Solutions is a
seasoned senior
hands-on professional who serves as the technology and analytics expert for
Finance and
Business Administration. The Executive Director receives general direction,
priorities, identified
control issues, business needs, and expected outcomes from the Senior
Associate Vice President
of Strategic Initiatives and Transformation.
The Executive Director independently designs, builds, implements, and
maintains business
intelligence, workflow-automation, internal-controls automation, and
continuous controls monitoring solutions. The position develops dashboards,
KPIs, scorecards, data models,
automated reports, digital workflows, system validations, exception reports,
alerts, low-code
applications, and other technology solutions that improve efficiency,
monitoring, internal
controls, and decision-making.
The Executive Director works with functional owners to understand process
details and business
rules, and with Information Technology when enterprise integration, ERP
configuration,
cybersecurity review, or specialized development is required. The Executive
Director drafts
business and functional requirements, leads the functional evaluation and
selection of software,
develops acceptance criteria, and tests solutions before recommending
acceptance. Functional
leaders retain ownership of their operations, data, processes, controls, and
corrective actions.
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS:
This is a working Executive Director position distinguished by its integration
of business
intelligence, technology solution development, business process automation,
internal control
automation, and continuous controls monitoring. The incumbent leverages
extensive expertise
to independently lead complex, cross-functional initiatives while personally
designing,
developing, implementing, and optimizing innovative solutions. Unlike a
traditional executive
leadership role focused primarily on oversight, coordination, or strategic
recommendations, this
position requires a hands-on executive who delivers end-to-end solutions that
drive operational
efficiency, strengthen governance, enhance data-informed decision-making, and
support
continuous process improvement across the organization.
The position translates general business needs and identifies control issues
into practical
technology solutions and serves as the functional lead from requirements
development through software evaluation, testing, and acceptance
recommendation. The Executive Director may
independently lead process-improvement initiatives when technology,
automation, systems,
data, or analytics are the primary enablers and support broader transformation
initiatives by
delivering the required technology component. The position does not replace
the operational
responsibilities of functional leaders, the enterprise technology
responsibilities of Information
Technology, the procurement and contracting responsibilities of authorized
university offices, or
the independent assurance responsibilities of Internal Audit.
Essential Duties Summary DATA ANALYTICS, KPIs, AND PERFORMANCE REPORTING:
Develops and maintains executive scorecards, leadership dashboards,
operational dashboards, management reports, and analytical tools.
Develops cross-divisional KPIs and performance measures in partnership
with executive leadership and functional owners.
Establishes and documents KPI definitions, formulas, baselines, targets,
thresholds, data sources, ownership, reporting frequency, and validation
requirements.
Build dashboards, reports, scorecards, and data visualizations using Power
BI or comparable business-intelligence tools.
Develops and maintains data models, calculations, queries, data
transformations, and automated reporting processes.
Uses SQL, DAX, Power Query, advanced Excel, or comparable tools to combine
and analyze information from multiple systems.
DATA QUALITY, VALIDATION, AND CONTROLS MONITORING
Validates the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness of
financial and operational data, reports, dashboards, and analytical
products.
Reconciles dashboards and management reports to Banner, ERP data, the
general ledger, payroll, procurement, budget, asset-management, and other
authoritative source systems.
Investigates conflicting results, duplicate or missing records, mapping
issues, timing differences, unusual variances, and calculation errors.
Establishes data-quality controls, validation procedures, data
dictionaries, source-to-report mappings, data lineage, and reporting
standards.
Documents data definitions, calculations, validation procedures,
assumptions, limitations, and identified data-quality concerns.
Communicates material data quality or reporting concerns to the
appropriate functional owners and leadership.
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS, SOFTWARE SELECTION, AND ACCEPTANCE
Elicits, analyzes, drafts, validates, and maintains business and
functional requirements for assigned technology initiatives.
Documents current-state and future-state process flows, business rules,
user needs, data requirements, reporting requirements, internal-control
requirements, interfaces, security considerations, use cases, and
acceptance criteria.
Prepares functional specifications, requirements documents, statements of
work, procurement specifications, demonstration scripts, and vendor-
evaluation criteria as assigned.
Conducts fit-gap and build-versus-buy analyses and leads to the functional
evaluation of available university platforms and external software
solutions.
Evaluates software against documented requirements, usability, control
effectiveness, integration, data, security, scalability, implementation
effort, vendor support, total cost, and long-term sustainability.
Leads the functional software-selection process and selects or recommends
the preferred solution, subject to required university procurement,
Information Technology, cybersecurity, legal, and executive approvals.
Develops requirements-traceability matrices, test strategies, test plans,
test cases, test scripts, test data, expected results, and acceptance
criteria.
Coordinates and personally participates in system, integration,
regression, and user-acceptance testing; documents defects, verify
corrections, and retests until critical issues are resolved.
Determines whether the solution satisfies documented requirements and
acceptance criteria and provides a written recommendation to accept,
conditionally accept, or reject the solution before production use or
formal acceptance.
Participates in configuration, implementation, documentation, training,
deployment, transition to operational ownership, and post-implementation
validation.
INTERNAL CONTROLS AUTOMATION AND CONTINUOUS CONTROLS MONITORING
Receives identified internal-control issues and expected outcomes from the
Senior Associate Vice President and develops the technology solution
needed to address them.
Designs and implements automated preventive and detective controls,
including system validations, workflow restrictions, required approvals,
alerts, exception reports, and monitoring dashboards.
Develops continuous controls-monitoring analytics to identify control
failures, unusual activity, policy exceptions, missing approvals, aging
items, duplicate records, and other operational risks.
Documents automated control logic, data sources, thresholds, responsible
owners, review frequency, evidence requirements, escalation procedures,
and expected system behavior.
Tests and validates that automated controls and monitoring tools operate
as designed and produce reliable results.
Monitors implemented solutions, reports unresolved exceptions, and
recommend adjustments when a control or technology solution is not
producing the intended result.
Supports corrective-action and audit-remediation tracking by developing
reports, dashboards, workflows, and evidence-management tools.
TECHNOLOGY -ENABLED PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
Leads process-improvement initiatives when data, workflow automation,
systems, reporting, artificial intelligence, controls monitoring, or
another technology solution is the primary enabler of the improvement.
Supports broader process-improvement and transformation initiatives by
designing and implementing the technology, data, automation, analytics,
control-monitoring, and performance-measurement components.
Uses current-state review, data analysis, and root-cause analysis to
identify bottlenecks, rework, manual steps, ineffective handoffs, control
gaps, and system limitations.
Works with functional owners to confirm the desired future-state process
and determine which steps should be standardized, eliminated, simplified,
or automated.
Coordinates with assigned process-improvement professionals and functional
owners to ensure that future-state process design, business requirements,
controls, and technology solutions are aligned.
Establishes measures to determine whether implemented process and
technology improvements achieved the intended efficiency, accuracy,
control, and service outcomes.
Conducts post-implementation reviews and maintains or enhances solutions
following implementation.
CROSS -FUNCTIONAL SUPPORT AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Works collaboratively with functional leaders, employees, Information
Technology, consultants, auditors, and data owners on cross-functional
initiatives.
Maintains clear technical documentation, process documentation, data
definitions, control logic, user instructions, and solution-support
information.
Maintains sufficient working knowledge of continuous process improvement,
internal controls, and audit-remediation tracking to provide temporary
coverage when assigned.
Protects confidential and security-sensitive business, employee, vendor,
and operational information.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
% FTE 1.0
Hiring Range $130,278.45-$169,361.98
Education Required:
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in data analytics,
business analytics,
management information systems, information systems, computer science,
business
administration, statistics, industrial engineering, or a closely related
field. An equivalent
combination of relevant education, professional experience, technical
training, and
demonstrated accomplishments may be considered.
Required Licensing/Certification None Required
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Knowledge of:
Business intelligence, KPI development, performance measurement, dashboard
development, data modeling, data visualization, and reporting automation.
Workflow automation, digital forms, low-code applications, business-
process automation, systems integration, and technology-solution delivery.
Internal controls automation, preventive and detective controls, exception
reporting, continuous controls monitoring, and corrective-action
monitoring.
Data governance, data quality, metadata, data lineage, master-data
concepts, and reporting standards.
ERP systems, integrated administrative systems, and authoritative source-
system data.
Business analysis, requirements elicitation and documentation, fit-gap
analysis, software evaluation and selection, requirements traceability,
test management, user-acceptance testing, and solution acceptance.
Process analysis, root-cause analysis, future-state design,
implementation, and sustainment.
Artificial intelligence, intelligent automation, human oversight,
auditability, security, and associated governance considerations.
Skill in:
Power BI dashboard and report development.
SQL, DAX, Power Query, data modeling, and advanced Excel.
Financial and operational data analysis.
Report validation and reconciliation.
KPI, scorecard, and performance-measure development.
Exception analytics and monitoring controls.
Translating business requirements into technical and reporting
specifications.
Communicating complex analytical information to executive and nontechnical
audiences.
Preparing clear business, technical, and data documentation.
Ability to:
Independently design, build, implement, maintain, and improve business-
intelligence, process-automation, and controls-automation solutions.
Convert general direction and identified business or control problems into
practical, secure, and sustainable technology solutions.
Lead the functional requirements, software-evaluation, selection, testing,
and acceptance process while complying with university approval and
procurement requirements.
Determine whether a proposed or delivered solution satisfies documented
requirements, internal controls, and acceptance criteria before
recommending acceptance.
Determine whether reports, dashboards, automated controls, and monitoring
tools are accurate and operating as intended.
Work with functional owners to understand business rules without assuming
permanent operational ownership.
Collaborate effectively with executives, functional leaders, operational
staff, Information Technology professionals, consultants, auditors, and
data owners.
Manage confidential and security-sensitive information.
Prioritize competing assignments and deliver completed work under
compressed timelines.
Work Experience Required:
At least eight years of progressively responsible experience in a
combination of business intelligence, data analytics, business analysis,
systems analysis, workflow automation, enterprise technology solutions, or
closely related work.
At least three years of senior-level or lead responsibility independently
directing complex, cross-functional technology, analytics, automation, or
technology-enabled process-improvement initiatives.
A demonstrated record of exercising independent judgment, advising
executive leadership, resolving complex technical and business issues, and
delivering completed solutions in a complex organization.
Demonstrated hands-on experience personally building and maintaining
dashboards, reports, scorecards, and analytical products using Power BI or
a comparable business-intelligence platform.
Practical hands-on experience using SQL, DAX, Power Query, advanced Excel,
or comparable tools to combine, transform, analyze, and report information
from multiple systems.
Demonstrated experience in at least three of the following areas:
business-requirements development; software evaluation and selection;
user-acceptance testing; workflow or low-code automation; controls-
monitoring analytics; automated controls; or technology-enabled process
improvement.
Experience participating in solution design, implementation, testing,
issue resolution, documentation, training, deployment, or post-
implementation support.
Experience working with ERP-enabled business or administrative processes
and authoritative source-system data.
Candidates must have personally developed and implemented analytical,
automation, or technology-enabled solutions. Experience limited to
reviewing, supervising, advising on, or coordinating the work of others
will not satisfy this requirement.
Preferred:
Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake,
Synapse Analytics, or comparable technology.
Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate, or comparable
workflow-automation and low-code platforms.
Experience with continuous controls monitoring controls automation,
exception analytics, or automated compliance reporting.
Experience integrating artificial intelligence, predictive analytics,
robotic process automation, or intelligent automation into business
processes.
Experience working with Banner or another higher-education ERP.
Experience working with external consultants or systems-integration
partners.
Experience in higher education, government, healthcare, nonprofit, or
another complex regulated environment.
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate or Fabric Data
Engineer Associate.
Microsoft Power Platform or comparable low-code and automation
certification.
Certified Information Systems Auditor, Certified in Risk and Information
Systems Control, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Project Management
Professional, or another relevant certification.
Working/Environmental Conditions This job description is intended to describe the essential functions of the position and is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. Essential duties, functions, and responsibilities may vary based on the specific work assigned to the position.
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Posting Supplemental Questions
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Do you have a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in data analytics, business analytics, management information systems, information systems, computer science, business administration, statistics, industrial engineering, or a closely related field or an equivalent combination of relevant education, professional experience, technical training, and demonstrated accomplishments may be considered?
Yes
No
Do you have at least eight years of progressively responsible experience in a combination of business intelligence, data analytics, business analysis, systems analysis, workflow automation, enterprise technology solutions, or closely related work?
Yes
No
Do you have experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Synapse Analytics, or comparable technology?
Yes
No
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