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Senior Financial Analyst
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include:
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.
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
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