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.