Assistant Vice President - Strategic Budget Modeling
Rutgers University
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Posted: 23-Apr-26
Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Internal Number: 273432
Position Summary:
Rutgers, The State University is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Strategic Budget Modeling within the Financial Planning, Analysis and Budget department, the university's central budget office. Reporting to the Vice President for Financial Planning and Analytics – Chief Budget Officer (VP for FP&A –CBO), the Assistant Vice President, Strategic Budget Modeling leads the University's enterprise-wide multi-year forecasting, scenario planning, and strategic budget modeling function. Serving as a senior thought partner to the VP for FP&A –CBO and working in partnership with the AVP of FP&A, campus CBOs, and executive leadership, the Director designs and maintains advanced forecasting frameworks that integrate and model all university operating revenues (including but not limited to net tuition and fees and auxiliaries) and expenses (including but not limited to student financial programs, personnel, non-personnel and strategic investments).
The Assistant VP will oversee a high-performing team that serves as the University's center of excellence for forecasting, what-if analyses, multi-year forecasting, and strategic financial insights aligned with the University's long-term fiscal sustainability goals. The role also stewards the University's Oracle EPM for Multi-Year Strategic Modeling, to advance literacy and adoption across the University.
Among the key duties of this position are the following:
Strategic Forecasting & Financial Modeling
Leads the design, enhancement, and governance of multi-year forecasting models covering all university operating revenues and expenses.
In collaboration with institutional subject matter experts, develops institution-wide budget and finance forecasting methodologies, assumptions, and scenario frameworks with clear documentation and change control.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national public research university and the state's preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education. Rutgers is dedicated to teaching that meets the highest standards of excellence; to conducting research that breaks new ground; and to turning knowledge into solutions for local, national, and global communities. As it was at our founding in 1766, the heart of our mission is preparing students to become productive members of society and good citizens of the world. Rutgers teaches across the full educational spectrum: preschool to precollege; undergraduate to graduate and postdoctoral; and continuing education for professional and personal advancement. Rutgers is New Jersey's land-grant institution and one of the nation's foremost research universities, and as such, we educate, make discoveries, serve as an engine of economic growth, and generate ideas for improving people's lives.