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Finance Specialist

Employer
Cal Performances
Location
UC Berkeley, California
Salary
Full time benefited position
Closing date
Nov 8, 2019

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Cal Performances of University of California, Berkeley is recruiting a Finance Specialist. 

Cal Performances presents and produces outstanding artists from the Bay Area, the United States, and around the world in performances and community programs which promote excellence, innovation, diversity, education, and community involvement, with the fundamental belief that the arts are vital to our society locally, nationally, and internationally.  In support of these goals, Cal Performances is committed to maintaining top-quality programs and facilities for our artists, audiences, the University and community.  For more information about Cal Performances, please visit:  https://calperformances.org/. 

Student Musical Activities (SMA) has been an integral part of Cal Performances since 1987.  For over one hundred years, the various units that comprise SMA (The Cal Marching Band, The UC Jazz Ensembles, and the UC Choral Ensembles) have served the University through the many contributions of its student members.  This organization offers its students many extra-curricular opportunities ranging from performance to musical instruction and training, as well as experience in student leadership and arts administration. 

The Finance Department of Cal Performances and Student Musical Activities is responsible for fiscal management and budgetary oversight for these two organizations, representing a combined annual operating budget of over $19 million.  Funds are derived from a variety of sources, including earned income, individual and corporate gifts and grants, federal, state and local grants, endowment income and a variety of university-based funding sources.  The finance department provides key financial and analytical support for Cal Performances departments, including artistic programming, education and community programs, development, marketing, and communications, box office, operations, facilities, information systems, human resources and administration.

This position is a key member of the Finance Department for Cal Performances and Student Musical Activities and is responsible for several highly visible financial functions for these departments.  Specifically, incumbent:

  • Acts in the capacity of department cashier, ensuring timely and accurate processing of all earned and contributed income for these organizations, including ticket sales, on-line credits, gift certificates, donations, merchandise and concession sales, and refunds.  Total dollars processed exceeds $15 million annually;
  • Reviews performance agreements and ensures that artist payments are timely and accurate.  This is a mission critical function for Cal Performances; total expenditures in this area exceed $5 million annually;
  • In conjunction with the Operations Department, prepares all split-deal event settlement, campus event and 3rd party event billings;
  • Supports financial and analytical needs of Cal Performances and Student Musical Activities department managers in the areas of purchasing, payment processing, and reporting and analysis as required.  Develops deep working relationships with department managers, external vendors, and central campus support units in order execute position responsibilities.  In this capacity, incumbent acts as a first line resource for department managers regarding university policy and procedures;
  • Independently conducts cash audits for both the Cal Performances and Student Musical Activity box offices; and
  • Provides assistance and support as required to the Chief Financial Officer on special projects.

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Mission

The mission of Cal Performances is to produce and present performances of the highest artistic quality, enhanced by programs that explore compelling intersections of education and the performing arts.

Overview

Cal Performances is the performing arts presenting, commissioning and producing organization based at the University of California, Berkeley. The origins of Cal Performances date from 1906, when stage actress Sarah Bernhardt appeared at the William Randolph Hearst Greek Theater to help rebuild public morale after the devastating San Francisco earthquake and fire in April of that year.

Over the subsequent century, Cal Performances grew to become the largest, multi-discipline performing arts presenter in Northern California, and one of the largest university-based arts presenters in the United States. Traditional and non-traditional artists regularly appear on or near the UC Berkeley campus in the theaters and concert halls managed by Cal Performances, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Wynton Marsalis, Cecilia Bartoli, Bryn Terfel, Mark Morris, Yo-Yo Ma, Philip Glass, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Merce Cunningham, Pina Bausch, Bill T. Jones, Peter Sellars, and Robert Lepage; as well as artists based in the San Francisco Bay Area like John Adams, Lou Harrison, Margaret Jenkins, Paul Dresher, Kronos Quartet, Joe Goode, Kaila Flexer, Jon Jang, and Sarah Cahill. Cal Performances is also instrumental in facilitating the touring of large ensembles from abroad, and has hosted such companies as the Grand Kabuki Theater of Japan, the Bolshoi and Kirov Ballet companies, Lyon Opera Ballet and Orchestra, the Kirov Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Berliner Ensemble, the Beijing People’s Art Theater, the Gate Theater of Dublin, Les Arts Florissants, Ballet Nacional de Cuba, and Nederland Dans Theater, among others.

Cal Performances presents over 100 performances annually in five venues—Zellerbach Hall, Zellerbach Playhouse, Hertz Hall, and Wheeler Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, and First Congregational Church of Berkeley—and in site-specific locations and other spaces. The performances range among Modern and Classical Dance, Theater, Instrumental and Vocal Recital, Early Music, Opera, Chamber Music, Jazz, New Music, World Music, Dance & Theater, and a speaking series. Cal Performances serves some 150,000 patrons annually through performances and arts education, residency and community programs.

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101 Zellerbach Hall, #4800
Berkeley
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94720
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