Senior Financial Analyst

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to accomplish each of the below duties satisfactorily:

• Manage the end-to-end budget process, acting as an interface between the Finance department and the University faculty and staff involved in budget management.
• Reviews and monitors budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with University goals/objectives, procedures and regulations.
• Develops, prepares and provides monthly actual vs. budget metrics and monitors for effective cost controls.
• Leveraging off of the budgeting system (Axiom), analyze monthly departmental budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls in conjunction with providing overall University rolling 12-month forecasts to identify trends and potential financial/budgetary risks.
• Review restricted fund balances monthly to ensure availability, use of funds for release, and submit recommendations for the approval or disapproval of funds requested.
• Work with departmental managers responsible for their respective budgets on an ongoing basis to monitor revenue and expenses in order to meet budget goals.
• Evaluate and assist department managers with the creation of proforma/program proposals and financial requests for viability.
• Ensuring maintenance of departments/cost centers in the accounting infrastructure to support the budget goals/objectives and monitoring of costs in accordance with the budget.
• Monitor, by program and revenue stream, profitability including creating/maintaining a cost allocation model.
• Assist with various external/regulatory reporting.
• Other duties as assigned.

Pay

• $90,000 - $105,000 per year

Experience Preferred

• Preferably within a higher education, non-profit, or complex organizational setting
• 3 year(s): Managing end-to-end budgeting process
• 5 year(s): Financial analysis

Education Preferred

• Bachelors or better in Finance or related field