Senior Financial Analyst, Orthopedics

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

16h

About The Position

UTSW is seeking an excellent Senior Financial Analyst with exceptional communication, critical thinking, and organizational skills to support the dynamic and growing Department of Orthopedic Surgery. This important role will provide critical support to departmental leadership through analysis of monthly reporting metrics and strategic initiatives. You will also help execute the department’s action plan and strengthen its financial reporting and variance analysis capabilities, providing faculty and program leaders with accurate, timely reports that enhance transparency, accountability, and decision-making.

Orthopedic Surgery is a fast-paced, high-impact department with a broad clinical, surgical, and academic mission, offering strong opportunities for professional growth and development. As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will also have the opportunity to build leadership skills through mentoring and training. Our ideal candidate has software skills that include knowledge of Hyperion, SmartView, Microsoft Excel, and Access; experience with Adaptive Planning is a plus. If you enjoy challenging, fast-paced work and collaborating with top medical and surgical leaders in an environment with opportunity for growth, this is the position for you.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in finance, accounting, or other related field
• 4 years of progressively responsible experience in finance and/or accounting with experience in planning, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Software skills that include knowledge of Hyperion, SmartView, Microsoft Excel, and Access

Nice To Haves

• experience with Adaptive Planning

Responsibilities

• Completes variety of complex 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 and/or supervises preparation of 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.
• 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 more complex 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