Lead Financial/Operations Analyst

California State University, Northridge•Northridge, CA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

CSUN strives to be a destination workplace, where everyone understands that they belong to a community that is vital in advancing student success and providing exemplary service to all stakeholders. We foster an environment of success, both for our students and our employees. We have a relentless passion for celebrating diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as being an employer of choice. You will also have the opportunity to realize your own personal goals, be recognized for the work you do, and enjoy the unique value the CSUN community can offer. Learn more: https://www.csun.edu/about-csun .

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university in a job-related field.
Three (3) years of full-time, progressively responsible technical, analytical, or administrative experience.
Ability to interpret and apply institutional policies, accounting practices, procurement methods, funding requirements, and reporting procedures related to state-side, auxiliary, grant, contract, and self-support funds.
Ability to communicate financial information clearly, collaborate with campus partners, provide recommendations, meet deadlines, and use systems such as CHRS, CFS Data Warehouse, eMOU, IRT, RFI, and IFT.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in higher education
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

Responsibilities

Plays a key role in budget and financial analysis, forecasting, budget planning, variance analysis, cost recovery analysis, external and internal project analysis and reporting, and process improvement for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Assists DFO with the development and implementation of the annual College budget, forecasting annual commitments and revenue, expenses, cost recovery, and outstanding multi-year commitments and projects.
Monitors and performs monthly reconciliation of expenses, including payroll expenses for all College personnel utilizing multiple funding sources, including Auxiliary funds.
Monitors projections and performance on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis and reports variances in plans.
Ensures financial data integrity and proactively takes actions in resolving posting discrepancies, ensuring transactions post to corresponding budget allocations and chartfields match budget allocations.
Processes journal entries and budget transfers.
Proactively plans for University deadlines.
Performs cost recovery analysis and submits IRT (Individual Release Time) and RFI (Request for Invoice) forms using various systems to generate an invoice and recover salary and benefits for auxiliary funded projects including release time, consultant pay and operating costs.
Responsible for performing a detailed analysis and reporting of commitments in order to meet cost match and/or cost share requirements are met on a monthly and quarterly basis.
Maintains expert-level knowledge of all current CSU and CSUN financial applications and systems and provides training to college users.
Performs other duties as assigned.