Budget and Fiscal Manager

Location: hirify.global, Bozeman, United States

Salary: $37.00 per hour, commensurate with experience, education, and qualifications.

Company

hirify.global is a research university supporting graduate education, research, professional development, and student success across more than 2,000 graduate students.

What you will do

• Provide strategic financial leadership for the Graduate School and advise the Vice Provost of Graduate Education on budget priorities.
• Develop and oversee annual, semester-based, and long-range budgets, including revenue projections and expenditure plans.
• Manage graduate appointments, tuition waivers, assistantship stipends, payroll coordination, budget adjustments, and expenditure tracking.
• Maintain and reconcile grant, designated, state, and foundation accounts and prepare reports for administrators and granting agencies.
• Coordinate with university budget, business services, human resources, facilities, and provost offices on administrative and fiscal matters.
• Manage Graduate School HR functions, support hiring and onboarding, train departments on graduate appointments, and supervise one staff member.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business or a related field, substantial relevant academic financial-management experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Progressively responsible experience as a program, operations, or business manager in a complex organization.
• Experience developing, monitoring, analyzing, and reconciling budgets and fiscal records.
• Experience coordinating projects and initiatives, making data-informed recommendations, and managing competing deadlines.
• Experience supervising and developing staff, assigning work, providing guidance, and managing performance.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Nice to have

• Advanced training or credentials related to the position.
• Experience working in higher education.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time classified position with a fiscal-year contract term.
• Benefits-eligible appointment.
• Collaborative, student-centered work supporting graduate education and research.
• Work with students, faculty, staff, university administrators, funding agencies, and professional organizations.
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume and cover letter.
• Application screening begins August 21, 2026 and continues until an adequate applicant pool is established.