Senior Financial Analyst

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting activities across departments, including monitoring allocations, expenditures, and revenue, and guiding stakeholders in informed financial decision-making.
• Develop forecasts, projections, and long-range financial plans to support leadership strategy and institutional priorities.
• Analyze financial performance through variance, trend, and activity-based analysis to identify risks, opportunities, and key insights.
• Prepare clear, actionable reports tailored to a range of stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Support related accounting functions as needed.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI) to enhance visibility into financial and operational performance.
• Deliver ad hoc analysis to support strategic, operational, and time-sensitive decision-making.
• Leverage advanced Excel and related tools to streamline processes, improve data accuracy, and reduce manual effort.
• Identify and implement opportunities to enhance reporting and workflows through automation and emerging technologies.
• Support required institutional and system-level reporting, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance.
• Partner with academic and administrative departments as a trusted financial advisor and resource.
• Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide guidance, training, and documentation to support effective use of financial systems and reporting tools.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, Student Accounts and SUNY System Administration, on data governance, systems, and reporting initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, data analytics, or a related field.
• At least five (5) years of experience in financial analysis, budgeting, or a related area.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel or comparable data analysis and reporting tools, including forecasting, financial modeling, automation, and advanced data functions, with the ability to work across additional data and reporting platforms.
• Demonstrated experience improving workflows through automation, analytics, or technology.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in higher education or a similarly complex, multi-stakeholder organization.
• Experience presenting analysis to or supporting senior leadership.
• Experience working with large datasets and/or querying tools.
• Familiarity with tools such as Power BI, Oracle BI, Banner, or similar enterprise platforms.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, or informally leading the work of others.
• Experience with project management, including planning, execution, and cross-functional coordination.

Benefits

The State University of New York offers excellent fringe benefits including health insurance options and retirement plans. Click Here For New York State Benefits Summary.

Additional Information

This is a full-time UUP position. For the first 10 working days, beginning Thursday, May 28, 2026, and ending Wednesday, June 10, 2026, applications will be limited to UUP Farmingdale. CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS: Open Until Filled

SALARY: $90,000+ $4,000 in downstate location pay = $94,000 Total Compensation. Salary may increase commensurate with experience.

The College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status or any other legally protected status.