Manager for finance and budgeting

School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University

Manager performs the following duties and responsibilities:

1) interacts with University's structural units, Schools and subsidiaries on budgeting and financial reporting issues; 

2) prepares the necessary documentation, organizes and conducts informative presentations on budgeting and financial reporting issues for the School's employees;

3) collects and processes requests from Faculty of the School and staff for inclusion in the School budget; 

4) provides advisory, methodological and practical assistance to the School staff on economic planning, budgeting and analysis within their competencies;

5) conducts correspondence in the circle of one's functional duties;

6) forms (makes adjustment) of the annual (medium-term) operating budget in the framework of the Academic activity, general and administrative School expenses, with the collection and formation of supporting documents, with consolidation at the School level;

7) consolidates the School's budget for all types of activities, with subsequent protection and development of issues within their competencies;

8) prepares reports on the implementation of the budget of the School, makes proposals for adjustment;

9) monitors the correctness of the reflection of expenses in the accounting system and timely proceeds with the Department of Finance to make adjustments;

10) forms and prepares financial statements, reports on budget execution with the preparation of notes with a full description of the reasons for deviations in the context of items and activities at the School level;

11) prepares the necessary information, reporting and statistics on the School's financial and economic issues at the request of the University's structural units and organizations in agreement with the Dean and the Head;

12) calculates the cost of work and services provided by the School;

13) conducts calculations and costing within their authority;

14) makes proposals to improve the quality of planning and budget execution of the School;

15) assists the General Manager in ensuring the rational use of the School's material and financial resources in order to identify intercompany reserves;

16) participates in activities to implement the strategic and operational plans of the School within its competencies;

17) participates in the development of business process optimization across the range of their functional responsibilities;

18) timely and properly enters data on the School's budget into the information system for budgeting, and, if necessary, makes suggestions for its improvement and further development;

19) participates in the development and coordination with the University's authorized structural units of methodologies, rules and procedures within the supervised direction;

20) is responsible for compliance with the University's internal documents within the framework of competence and implementation of audit recommendations;

21) participates in the development, as well as the subsequently monitors of the implementation of draft contracts and additional agreements initiated by the School;

22) coordinates the processes of identification, assessment (analysis), management and monitoring of risks at the level of the School;

23) supports risk communication with structural units;

24) participates in the development and maintenance of a good risk management culture;

25) temporarily performs the duties (replaces) of the other Manager during his/her temporary absence (up to one month);

26) timely and properly executes the tasks of the line manager and the University`s management;

27) observes the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Employer`s internal documents;

28) is responsible for exercising the labor and performance discipline;

29) is responsible for ensuring the integrity of official documents, and prevention of the disclosure or leakage of confidential and business information, as well as information of restricted access in accordance with the legislation, Charter and internal documents of the Employer;   

30) in case of dismissal, is responsible for timely transfer of all paper documentation, digital information, inventory to another employee as instructed by the line manager (to be certified by the act of acceptance-transfer). 

Education:

Higher-professional, preferable from the higher education institutions with English language of instruction; 

Priority specializations:

- Management;

- Economics;

- Finance;

- Business Administration;

- Project Management

Work experience:

Three years minimum. Minimum one year with master`s degree in the relevant area

Knowledge:

- Knowledge in the field of economic planning and analysis;

- knowledge in the field of accounting;

- fluency in English, Kazakh and Russian;

- knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); Google products (Docs, Spreadsheets, Forms, Slides, Drive), basic knowledge of 1c Enterprise

Skills:

- High analytical abilities;

- the ability to work with a large amount of information;

- Business correspondence skills

Other requirements:

- Commitment to the goals and values of the University;

- interpersonal skills;

- critical thinking;

- responsibility;

- initiative; 

- the ability to work independently and in a team;

- ability to work in a multicultural environment.

Recruitment and selection process
Recruitment and selection at Nazarbayev University include the following process: preliminary selection based on experience and qualifications, assessments (e.g. technical skills/capabilities, aptitude, personality, work samples, in-basket exercises, and informal interviews), and motivation.

Formal interviews form the final stage of the selection process.
They are typically based on organizational values and behaviors and conducted in English.
You are encouraged to share your views and values  to identify how they fit into  Nazarbayev University core values