Senior Financial Analyst, Sponsored Programs

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

6d • Onsite

About The Position

This position supports a finance team within Sponsored Programs, requiring a strong understanding of the full award lifecycle and key functions within Clinical Trial Finance, including budgeting, reporting, maintenance, and closeout. The role leverages advanced analytical skills, including Excel tools such as pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, XLOOKUPs, analyze in Excel (AIE) and macros, to improve efficiency and enhance financial analysis. Responsibilities include reviewing clinical trial-related financial data, ensuring accuracy and maintaining strong internal controls. The position translates financial and operational data into actionable insights to support decision-making. It ensures timely, accurate billing aligned with protocol requirements and participant encounters. Through analytics, standardized reporting and automation, the role strengthens financial stewardship, improves operational efficiency, and supports scalable, financial processes across clinical research activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in finance, accounting, or other related field
• 4 years of progressively responsible experience in finance and/or accounting
• Experience in planning, forecasting, and financial analysis
• Strong understanding of the full award lifecycle and key functions within Clinical Trial Finance, including budgeting, reporting, maintenance, and closeout.
• Advanced analytical skills, including Excel tools such as pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, XLOOKUPs, analyze in Excel (AIE) and macros.

Responsibilities

• Completes a variety of complex monthly financial management reports and reviews all reports for errors and inconsistencies.
• Analyzes variations in forecasts and actual performance and 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 with applicable procedures and regulations.
• 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% 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: Senior