Finance Analyst - Mathematical Sciences

University of Washington•Seattle, WA

8d•$76,800 - $85,800•Hybrid

About The Position

The College of Arts & Sciences has an outstanding opportunity for a Finance Analyst to join their team. Reporting to the Director of Planning and Budgeting, the Finance Analyst will directly impact the success of our Mathematical Sciences units while developing expertise in cutting-edge financial systems like Workday, Adaptive Planning, and Financial Cubes. In this role, you will: Transforming complex financial data into actionable insights for department leaders Partnering with HR Managers to ensure seamless payroll operations Managing critical budgets that support world-changing research and education Joining a supportive team that will guide you through the fascinating fiscal landscape of higher education This role is located on the Seattle campus and operates on a Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM schedule. While primarily onsite, the position may offer up to two remote workdays per week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics or related field
Minimum of four years of experience in finance, accounting and yearly financial planning
Advanced excel skills including pivot table, V-Lookup
Experience with data cubes
Demonstrated attention to detail
Demonstrate ability to communicate complex ideas to audiences that are not finance experts
Demonstrated problem solving skills

Nice To Haves

Curiosity and imagination
Enjoys puzzles
Able to deal with ambiguity

Responsibilities

Run and analyze a variety of Workday-based reports and review with the department and their unique revenue portfolios on a regular basis (approximately $15M dollars annually).
Run earnings and actuals twice a month for each unit to ensure salary, wages and related tuition charges are posting to the correct FDM values for the units.
Run R1300.5 monthly and use as a ‘jumping off point’ to search for variance and run additional reports as necessary.
Run reports for grants, gifts, programs and stand-alone grant tags on a cadence requested by the chair or other faculty members.
As necessary initiate the process for correcting journal entries via the College’s Shared Environment.
Serve as Cost Center manager for a portfolio of the departments.
Ensure that requests for reimbursements, purchases and other expenditures are using correct FDM values.
Submit, update and revised the Adaptive plan for the departments.
Work with department leaders to create spend plans for various revenue streams.
Enter and update five year plan in Adaptive each Autumn.
Create recasts each new fiscal year.
Use reports in Adaptive to ensure actual spend matches plan and identify variances.
Create ad-hoc forecasts for department leaders, supervisor or Divisional Deans as requested.
Ensure that HR Manager, department front line staff and faculty have appropriate FDM values for costing allocations, travel reimbursements, etc.