Senior Financial Analyst

Job Summary

The Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst with excellent finance and critical thinking skills. In this role, you’ll collaborate with internal stakeholders and senior leadership to deliver insights that drive informed decisions on your assigned divisions. You will perform complex financial analyses—including month-end variance analysis, financial modeling, contractual reconciliations as well as annual budget and any day-to-day departmental financial request.

Required EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

• Bachelor's Degree in finance, accounting, or other related field
• 4 years of progressively responsible experience in finance and/or accounting with experience in planning, forecasting, and financial analysis

Job Duties

• Completes variety of complex monthly financial management reports and reviews all reports for errors and inconsistencies; analyzes variations in forecasts and actual performance; determines reasons for variance; develops recommendations for improvement; completes written summaries of financial data.
• Prepares and/or supervises preparation of monthly financial reports, schedules for annual financial reports, and reports to various government agencies, ensuring conformance of such reports with applicable procedures and regulations of University of Texas System and Federal and State agencies.
• Identifies areas of poor performance, presents findings, and makes recommendations to upper management.
• Prepares financial models and conducts financial analyses.
• Maintains controls for policies and procedures for financial system; develops and maintains delegation of authority of various procedures, such as check requests, refunds, invoice approval, bad debt write-offs, etc.
• Completes more complex special projects as requested.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Security and EEO Statement

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information. UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.