Senior Finance and Budget Operations Analyst

About the role

The Senior Finance & Budget Operations Analyst serves as a highly influential and productive member of the Administrative Services and Strategic Executive Team (ASSET), supporting the Organizations of the Chancellor and the Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor. The Senior Analyst provides expert-level support to the management of ASSET in the business and financial operations.

Responsibilities

• Supports organizational-level activities for the annual planning and budget process, financial management, and monthly and ad hoc reporting and analysis, and special projects.
• Reviews transactions requiring organizational-level approval.
• Performs complex budgetary/financial analysis and reporting.
• Takes the lead in preparing executive-level high-level communication and reports for multiple departments.
• Independently performs moderate to complex budgetary/financial analysis and reporting such as multi-year planning, rate sustainability and feasibility, advises on cost containment measures, review annual costing reports, performs reconciliations and develops/prepares reports on overall resource management.
• Includes research, monitoring trend and deficit analysis, tracking, generating monthly (inc. ad-hoc) executive level summaries, and reporting to various constituents (e.g., UCOP, department heads, organization head, and the campus budget office) of multiple core and non-core funding streams.

Requirements

Required Experience Requirements:

• 6 - 10 years of related experience.
• Advanced knowledge of finance policies, practices and systems.
• Ability to identify, collect and analyze information from a variety of sources.
• Ability to present complex finance related information in a clear and concise manner, both in writing and verbally.
• In depth ability to use multiple spreadsheet and database software tools to gather information for specialized, complex financial analysis, fiscal management and financial reports.
• Advanced interpersonal skills at all levels within the organization; service orientation; advanced critical thinking; attention to detail; ability to multi-task in a high volume environment, effective organizational skills.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities.
• Ability to function as a member of a team.
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of internal control practices and their impact on protecting University resources.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training.
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of Oracle EPM, PPM, and systems used to extract data in report preparation (preferred).

Pay

The full salary range for the Senior Director of Finance & Business Operations is $93,200.00 - $174,200.00 annually. However, the expected pay scale for this position is up to $120,000.00 annually.