Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Brett Padgett announces the hiring of Kelly Flannery ‘00 into the key role of Senior Associate Vice President (SAVP) for Finance in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). She will begin her tenure on Monday, January 13.
Flannery has spent years in high-level financial positions for city governments, most recently as the Director of Finance for the metropolitan government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tenn, where she directed an annual operating budget in excess of $5 billion. Prior to her time in Nashville, she held the role of chief financial officer for the city of Charlotte and also spent 10 years in increasingly senior roles in the city of Chicago’s finance department.
Flannery will manage three financial units within the division: the Office of the Comptroller, led by Associate Vice President and Comptroller Jean Gallipeau, the Office of the Treasurer, led by Associate Vice President and Treasurer Scott Kemp, and the Strategic Procurement department, led by the soon-to-be-hired Assistant Vice President for Procurement.
Her work will include long-term strategic planning, coordinating across units within the Office of the CFO and with other University divisions to ensure sound financial structures remain in place as the University embarks on several multi-year projects, including the Strategic Housing Plan and the operationalization of the Academic Strategic Plan, which includes the expansion of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Flannery will deepen the division’s commitment to strategic procurement, financial planning and analysis, and will serve as the Office of the CFO’s representative on the University’s coordinated risk and compliance committee.
Flannery is a Syracuse alumnus, graduating in 2000 with a degree in international relations with a concentration in foreign policy and decision making. She then went on to earn her MPA at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte in 2004.