Financial Analyst

Role Overview

The Financial Analyst will play a key role in the Finance Partnership Network within Finance, Procurement and Planning in bridging the gap for research post-award administration, developing and implementing standard reporting templates, generating financial data, and building reporting tools to support the finance partnership network in budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.

What You Will Do

The incumbent will assess processes, determine requirements, and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders to achieve the goals of the department and division. In addition to day-to-day data entry support, journal entries, and monthly reporting, this position will be responsible for account analysis and reconciliation, preparation and distribution of management reports and budgets while ensuring accuracy and consistency.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This position will ensure effective data and information management (collection, analysis, and reporting) and is responsible for assessing requests, compiling statistical information, investigating, preparing reports, and analyzing trend information.

Requirements

• proactively anticipates policy and procedure related financial administrative needs
• designs and offers supports and resources to address ongoing and emerging needs
• acts expediently and with a service-orientation to solve specific problems
• collects and curates up-to-date information re: budget management and reporting
• prepares monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial summaries
• analyzes current and historical data to determine analytical trends to support management in strategic decision making
• complete preparation of monthly and year-end financial statement workbooks for regular reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis
• create metrics that can be utilized across the university to support financial decision making

Tagged as: Data Analysis, Forecasting