Financial Analyst I, Pediatrics

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

3d • Onsite

About The Position

UTSW is seeking a Financial Analyst I for the dynamic and growing Department of Pediatrics, specifically within the Research & Grants Finance team. This role involves providing financial research support to faculty by completing monthly research-specific financial reports, reconciling research and grant expenditures, and analyzing variations between actual performance and expected funding to ensure researchers stay within budget. The analyst will also approve research and grant expenses and interact with various departments such as SPA, accounting, Provost Finance, and the Budget office. The ideal candidate possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to adapt their communication style. Financial analysis experience in an academic healthcare/research setting is highly preferred. This position offers challenging, fast-paced work and opportunities for growth while collaborating with top medical leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree In finance, accounting, or other related field
• No experience required

Nice To Haves

• Financial analysis experience in an academic healthcare/research setting is highly preferred

Responsibilities

• Completes 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.
• Assists with preparing 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 concerned.
• Identifies areas of poor performance, presents findings, and makes recommendations to upper management.
• Prepares financial models and conducts financial analyses.
• May assists in maintaining 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.
• Assists with special 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%25 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees