Financial Affairs Analyst Lead

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

31d

About The Position

This position is a Team lead for the Award Closeout Team. Person will over see team and provide subject matter expertise for the team's tasks while creating change to get tasks done efficiently, accurately while provided excellent customer service to our internal and external customers. The Award Closeout team is responsible for timely closeout of awards and ensuring expenditure, payments and billing ultimately all reconcile. If not, it is required to investigate variances and work across Post-Award teams to remedy and provide solutions to these issues. Understanding of Uniform Guidance, PeopleSoft and Research Administration is helpful. Ability to use higher level analytics; pivots, vlookups, xlookups, Power Queries, and Power BI will facilitate this position in being successful in this role as we move to more translational processes for this team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree In finance, accounting, or related field or
• 6 years Experience in finance with demonstration in planning, forecasting, and financial analysis, plus analytical ability to understand complex financial activities of healthcare initiatives (or research initiatives depending on department needs).

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of Uniform Guidance, PeopleSoft and Research Administration is helpful.
• Ability to use higher level analytics; pivots, vlookups, xlookups, Power Queries, and Power BI will facilitate this position in being successful in this role as we move to more translational processes for this team.

Responsibilities

• Provides financial support for all areas of department.
• Reviews and plan for various financial projections within team. Identifies areas of financial risk, present findings, and makes recommendations to management.
• Plans, leads, coordinates, and manages budgeting and forecasting activities. Evaluates, prioritizes, assigns and implements capital projects.
• Manages, directs and plans evaluation of departments or team's financial performance. Develops and recommends actions to achieve financial objectives.
• Provides strategic consultation and guidance to management on financial or compliance issues, evaluates business processes and creates recommendations for optimizing impact on business initiatives.
• Performs financial analysis on various projects. Accesses and utilizes financial data from various data sources.
• Develops and manages work plans to meet target dates and deliverables.
• Completes complex projects as requested.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
• Learn more about these and other UTSW employee benefits!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Educational Services
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees