Financial Analyst II, Pediatrics

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

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About The Position

UTSW is seeking a Financial Analyst II with excellent critical thinking to be used for the dynamic growing Department of Pediatrics, on our Research & Grants Finance team. In this important role, you will lend financial research support to faculty by completing monthly research specific financial reports, which includes reconciling research and grant spend. Additionally, you will analyze variations in actual performance and expected funding from various sources to keep researcher on budget, approve research and grant expenses, and interface with several departments, i.e. SPA, accounting, Provost Finance, Budget office, and other departments. Our ideal candidate has excellent communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to adjust depending on the circumstances. Financial analysis experience in an academic healthcare/research setting is highly preferred.
If you enjoy challenging, fast-paced work and enjoy working with top medical leaders with an opportunity for growth this is the position for you.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in finance, accounting, or other related field
• 2 years of progressively responsible experience in finance and/or accounting with experience in planning, forecasting, and financial analysis

Nice To Haves

• Financial analysis experience in an academic healthcare/research setting is highly preferred.
• excellent communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to adjust depending on the circumstances

Responsibilities

• Completes variety of 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.
• Prepares 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 maintain 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.
• Completes 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: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees