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Merrimack College seeks a strategic, analytical, entrepreneurial, and technology-forward Associate Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis (AVP, FP&A). Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, the AVP will lead enterprise analysis of revenue, costs, operating performance, and strategic investments—helping Merrimack accelerate sustainable growth, improve contribution margins, and strengthen financial accountability.

The AVP will work alongside the Vice President, Financial Planning and Chief Budget Officer, who leads institutional budgeting, the hybrid responsibility-centered management model, and long-range financial planning, and in close partnership with the AVP for Finance/Controller. This highly visible leader will provide forecasts, models, dashboards, and AI-enabled decision support that connect strategy, resource allocation, and operating results. Serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO and senior leadership, translating analysis into recommendations on growth, resource allocation, investment priorities, and financial risk.

• Revenue growth and revenue-center analysis. Analyze undergraduate and graduate net tuition, financial aid, retention, research and sponsored programs, auxiliary operations, partnerships, and new ventures. Identify opportunities to increase sustainable net revenue and reduce revenue risk.
• Cost management and containment . Create transparent cost-center reporting, identify cost drivers, and develop actionable savings and productivity initiatives involving workforce, procurement, vendors, processes, technology, facilities, and shared services.
• Program economics and investment discipline. Develop contribution-margin, unit-cost, capacity, and portfolio analyses and evaluate strategic initiatives using market, revenue, cost, risk, break-even, payback, and return-on- investment measures.
• Forecasting and scenario planning. Build driver-based forecasts and sensitivity analyses for enrollment, net tuition revenue, compensation, benefits, auxiliaries, research, and major operating expenses, and make recommendations on emerging financial risks & opportunities.
• Budget and hybrid RCM support. Provide the Chief Budget Officer with analytical models, forecasts, performance metrics, and recommendations that strengthen institutional budgeting, accountability, and the College’s hybrid RCM framework.
• Performance management. Deliver executive dashboards, variance analyses, and operating reviews that explain what changed, why it changed, and what actions are required.
• AI-enabled finance and analytics. Lead responsible use of predictive analytics, generative AI, automation, anomaly detection, and business intelligence with strong standards for data quality, validation, explainability, privacy, security, and human review.

• Establish standardized revenue-center and cost-center dashboards and operating reviews.
• Build an integrated enrollment, financial-aid, and net tuition revenue forecasting model.
• Develop a College-wide cost-containment and productivity pipeline with accountable owners and measurable results.
• Implement a practical roadmap and governance framework for AI-enabled FP&A and reporting.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business administration, data analytics, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in FP&A, strategic finance, corporate finance, management consulting, higher education finance, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated success in revenue analysis, cost analysis, financial modeling, forecasting, scenario planning, performance reporting, and business-case development.
• Experience partnering with senior executives and operating leaders in a complex, fast-moving, matrixed organization.
• Advanced proficiency with ERP, planning and forecasting, business-intelligence, data-visualization, and financial-modeling tools, including experience applying AI or advanced analytics to decision support.
• Exceptional communication, judgment, integrity, collaboration, and change-leadership skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including financial modeling, forecasting, scenario analysis, and data reconciliation.
• Experience with enterprise financial and ERP systems; Jenzabar One or a comparable higher-education system preferred.
• Proficiency with business-intelligence and data-visualization tools, such as Microsoft Power BI or Tableau.
• Ability to integrate and analyze financial, enrollment, payroll, human-resources, and operational data.
• Familiarity with SQL, database querying, and budgeting or enterprise-performance-management platforms preferred.

• Master’s degree in business administration, finance, accounting, analytics, or a related field; CPA, CFA, CMA, or another relevant credential.
• Financial leadership experience in higher education or another complex, mission-driven, multi-unit organization.
• Experience with responsibility-centered management, academic program economics, unit costing, or activity-based costing.
• Experience implementing or enhancing enterprise planning, data-warehouse, business-intelligence, or AI-enabled finance capabilities.

The successful candidate will be strategically minded, analytically rigorous, entrepreneurial, and able to constructively challenge assumptions. The AVP will translate complex information into practical decisions, build trust across the College, and balance growth, affordability, academic quality, student success, and long-term financial sustainability.

This position is subject to the successful completion of a criminal background check.

This is an on-campus position as employees are essential in order to provide a fully on-campus, residential college experience for our students and the community.

|Merrimack College is a Catholic Augustinian institution of higher education committed to building an accepting and respectful community. Our mission is to enlighten minds, engage hearts and empower lives and is inspired by our Catholic faith and the Augustinian tradition of seeking truth through inquiry and dialogue.

Merrimack College seeks candidates who understand, respect, and can contribute to Merrimack’s Catholic and Augustinian mission. All candidates should describe in their application how they will foster a culture that supports our mission.

The only Catholic, Augustinian institution of higher education in New England, Merrimack College is a private, independent, coeducational institution with more than 4,000 undergraduate and 1,900 graduate students from 46 states and 45 countries. The College features more than 160 career-focused academic programs in science, engineering, business, nursing, health sciences, education, social sciences and humanities across undergraduate, professional and graduate programs, all taught by exceptional faculty who are passionate about their subject and student success. The College has six schools: arts and sciences, engineering and computational sciences, nursing and health sciences, education and social policy, the Girard school of business, and the Graduate School of counseling and social work. The College’s suburban 220-acre campus is just north of Boston in North Andover, Massachusetts. Merrimack is a Master’s Colleges and Universities/Larger Programs (M1) institution in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Merrimack is one of the fastest-growing educational institutions in the country and has steadily climbed up in the U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of Best Colleges, ranking 37th in the Regional Universities North category in 2025. Merrimack is a NCAA Division I athletic institution.

Merrimack College is an Equal Opportunity Employer.