Krueger Named A&T Student Affairs Executive Director for Administration

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Sept. 6, 2024) – A finance and accounting professional with more than 25 years of experience has been named executive director for Administration in the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Division of Student Affairs, effective Aug. 19.

Patrick Krueger, MBA, joins N.C. A&T from Bennett College, where he was interim controller and senior project manager since January 2022. He performed monthly system close and internal financial reporting, was responsible for annual financial statements and regulatory return preparation, and supervised accounting staff and department operations, as well as all disbursement transactions including accounts payable and payroll and the related reporting and regulatory requirements. He implemented policies and procedures for financial reporting, collaborated with departments on budget management and transfers and performed analysis on budget to actuals. He also worked with information technology to ensure data integrity and system security. Additionally, he managed the design, configuration, testing and implementation of the college’s new finance and related foundation enterprise resource planning.

Previously, Krueger served for more than three years as business process manager at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, where he managed $200 million of annual invoice revenue and accounts receivable representing 40% of the university’s operating budget. He monitored financial activity for more than 700 grants, clinical trials and professional service agreements to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures, as well as coordinated efforts with appropriate staff across 90 individual departments within each of the schools. He was a key player in providing expertise and leadership in delivering the technology infrastructure required to host the first virtual University of North Carolina System Finance Conference. He co-managed a task force that delivered a comprehensive recommendation for centralizing technology, process improvement and business analytics for review by the vice chancellor of finance. He also collaborated with contracts and grants, sponsored research, information technology services and the UNC System office to create a process that generated grant-related data to load into Activity Insight.

Krueger also served as controller at University Medical Center New Orleans-LCMC Health and assistant director of accounting for billing and accounts receivable at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.

Krueger holds a BBA in finance and commercial banking and an MBA in finance from Northeast Louisiana University, now University of Louisiana Monroe.