Administrative Assistant Vice President

JANUS A. KURZMANN

**********@*******.***

Abingdon, Maryland 21009 cell: 410-***-****

Executive Profile

A financial executive with over twenty years of university financial, health care industry and corporate banking experience. Extensive experience in financial reporting, strategic planning, project management, regulatory reporting and expense reduction/process improvement. Demonstrated ability to analyze difficult financial challenges and provide solutions in order to achieve financial goals. An accomplished manager with excellent analytical, organizational, communication and interpersonal skills. Proven record of success in:

Financial Reporting Administration Management Budgeting Forecasting

Leadership Project Management Innovation Strategic Planning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of Baltimore Foundation April 2022-Present

CFO (Interim)

The CFO reports to the Executive Director and works closely with the Development, Alumni and University Finance departments in addition to serving as an advisor to and collaborator with the Board of Directors.

The CFO ensures the financial integrity of the Foundation and plays a critical role in partnering with the Board of Directors in strategic decision-making operations.

Fiscal management and autonomous investment decision authority for $80++ million endowment portfolio and annual operating budget of $7-10 million

Manage all accounting operations and reporting systems ensuring compliance with GAAP, legal and regulatory requirements.

Ensure timeliness, accuracy, and usefulness of financial reporting for board of directors, senior management and funders

Lead the annual audit process in coordination with the audit committee

Manage organizational cash flow and forecasting

Lead the annual budgeting process in collaboration with university partners

Serve as liaison to board of directors’ executive, finance, audit, and investment committees

Supervise the Finance team and create, monitor, evaluate, and report on team goals.

Ensure finance procedures adequately and sustainably support efficiency and a strong internal control environment

Communicate and maintain positive relationships with relevant external stakeholders, including funders, auditors, and others

Johns Hopkins University May 2008-April 2022

School of Nursing April 2020-April 2022

Associate Director, Research Admin SON

Fiscal management of sponsored research totaling $23 million per year

Responsible for negotiation and execution of domestic and international federal and non-federal contracts and sub-contracts

Direct training/guidance of staff and faculty in research compliance and clinical research systems and administration

Champion major initiatives for continuous improvement in support of internal controls and reporting processes.

Provide regulatory and compliance oversight and advice to research administration staff and Faculty

Project and analyze short and long-term trends in total research funding including funding mix and over-head recoveries

Member of the JHU Faculty Oversight Committee charged with determining strategic direction and priorities for all JHU sponsored research

Manage operations team with full authority for personnel management plans, employment and compensation issues, performance management issues, following and creating administrative policies, disciplinary actions, competency analysis, hiring and orientation

Exercise autonomous independent managerial and professional judgement and assume responsibility for decisions, consequences and results

Responsible for fostering collaborative partnerships between JHU and other organizations-domestic and international.

Direct the initiatives to build research and scholarship capacity among faculty, staff and students

School of Medicine –Johns Hopkins Medicine/All Children’s Hospital October 2013-April 2020

Director-Academic System Planning and Development for Finance & Administration

Developed and executed sound financial and administrative strategic plans that resulted successful integration of Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (JHACH) into Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM).

Full fiscal responsibility for the development and authority for of the annual operating budgets of~ $35M+

Budgeting and expense oversight for all Faculty research start-up funding

Senior lead on the Baltimore medical campus for all JHM-ACH financial and administrative operations

Project lead for the Outlook, Microsoft suite and SAP financial system conversions

Direct oversight for the effective and efficient allocation of people and resources in order to facilitate the building of a strong foundation for JHM academic programs at JHACH

Responsible for the management and operational oversight for all aspects of ACH-JHM Human Resources and Payroll-Faculty and Staff including all JHU HR in matters for JHU employees

Leadership point of contact for internal and external audit reviews and reports

Member of leadership team and clinical oversight committee

Responsible for all grants management activities originating at JHACH including all pre and post award functions.

Responsible for all short and long term financial planning on both campuses-academic and clinical

School of Medicine – Department of Radiology May 2008-October 2013

Assistant Administrator – Office of Research Administration

Was responsible for the overall administration of the department’s research administration office, support the department’s research and academic activities, and serve to facilitate the intra- and inter-programmatic research and academic objectives of the department

Was an active member of the RORA Oversight Committee

Implemented RORA new research policies and policy changes in order to achieve the strategic and operational goals

Developed budgeting strategies and implemented to support the centralized management of resources, support and services required for the research and academic activities

Manage the pre and post award functions for ~300 active grants and contracts with an annual budget of ~$35M.

Negotiated research contracts in conjunction with the university

Worked with the Chairman of Radiology to plan for future research facilities and resources strategic needs

Supervised the grant specialists/analysts/support staff for effective procedures and workflow in the preparation of the research grants and contracts applications for 100+ researchers

Directed management of the department’s informational databases and research systems

Budgeting and expense oversight for all Faculty research start-up funding and Chairman’s departmental research endowment funds

Responsible for the human resource administration and coordination of personnel issues as it relates the research staff and the research including staff recruitment, staff development and training, unemployment and worker’s compensation issues, occupational health and safety programs, and individual and group guidance on human resource issues for management and staff

Provident Bank, Baltimore, Maryland July 2006 — May 2008

Major Responsibilities/Accomplishments:

·Implemented daily and monthly accounting reconciliation software solutions

·Key contact for bank control IT regulatory and audit reviews - internal and external

·Redefined the Commercial and Commercial Real Estate businesses through process reengineering, functional consolidations, expense reductions and cost avoidance thus creating corporate processing efficiency

·Business and IT support liaison for Finance & Control, Risk Management, Cash Management and Strategic Directions lines of business

·IT representative for the Project Management and Information Security Offices

·Analyzed and translated business requirements into technology requirements for application development.

Assistant Vice President Information Technology/Client Support Services - Full financial and administrative responsibility for IT projects of significant monetary and business importance to the bank. Reported directly to senior and executive leadership

Bank of America (legacy MBNA), Wilmington, Delaware April 1997 — July 2006

Select Major Responsibilities/Accomplishments:

·Assisted in the management review of MBNA's monthly worldwide management reporting

·Key contact for all regulatory and audit reviews - internal and external

·Refined the expense accrual process and lead effort to increase capital expense threshold thus reducing processing time and creating corporate processing efficiency

·Key player in the redesign and implementation of a shortened financial close process — decreased by one and half days

·Lead effort to update the 2003 marketing value matrix

·Director of the Financial and Deposit Accounting departments

·Managed the department that reconciled $18.5 billion in deposits on a daily basis

·Responsible for expense, people and capital budgeting and performance of the U.S. Credit Card Finance division

·Successfully lead conversion of all historical worldwide accounting data from NT to Windows 2000 environment and the data migration from the Netware to SAN environment

·Prepared and presented proforma financial statements and projections for U. S. Credit Card affinity group contracts

·Reviewed and made financial recommendations for worldwide technology project and people resource funding requests

·Key member of the team that designed and implemented the People Website on the corporate intranet

Vice President Financial Accounting Department – Responsible for all accounting, administrative and audit operations for department

Vice President Corporate & Strategic Planning Department –Responsible for channel marketing simulation models, management of ENPV and NIBT analytical teams and value matrix data modeling

Vice President and Director of the Consumer Deposits Division – Responsible for fiscal, compliance and administrative management of deposit accounting and operations teams of an $18.5 billion deposits business

Vice President U.S. Credit Card Finance Division-Responsible for fiscal, business recovery, resource planning, budgeting/forecasting and administrative operations for entire division.

Assistant Vice President Corporate Resource Allocation Department – Responsible for international technology, people, infrastructure funding recommendations/decisions to senior leadership, executive management and board of directors

Johns Hopkins University, School Of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland March 1992 — April 1997

Assistant Administrator Department of Radiology – Responsible for fiscal management of annual clinical and university operating budgets and administrative oversight of pro-fee billing and budget offices

Financial Manager Department of Biomedical Engineering – Responsible for fiscal management for all pre and post award sponsored research awards (100+), budgeting and expense oversight for all research start-up funding/Whitaker Foundation funds/Chairman’s departmental research endowment funds and administrative management of the budget office and departmental staff

Comp-tron, Inc. (Rummel, Klepper & Kahl Engineers), Baltimore, Maryland (June 1988-March 1992).

Accounting Manager

Pelorus, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland (April 1986-June 1988).

Administrative Assistant

Project Manager/Technical Support

Bamberger's, White Marsh, Maryland (August 1985-April 1986).

Inventory & Shortage Control Manager

EDUCATION

Business of Medicine Master's Certification, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

B.S. Finance, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS

Delta Zeta Sorority Alumni Member

Miami University Alumni Member

The John Carroll School Parent Association Alumni

The John Carrol School Theater and Choral Parent Alumni

Member of the Society of Research Administrators (SRAI)

Chesapeake Golden Retriever Club Member

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