Senior Financial Analyst - School of Medicine, Emory at Grady

Emory • Atlanta, GA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This role coordinates major financial reporting and budgeting activities, ensuring compliance with regulations and reporting requirements. It involves coordinating the correction of account balances, resolving funding issues, and maintaining proper accounting controls and procedures. The position makes recommendations to management related to long-range financial and cash flow analyses, and prepares and analyzes statistical and financial reports, financial statements, and supporting schedules. Additionally, this role may assist in preparing, developing, and monitoring department/organizational budgets, maintaining grant agreements, policies, and guidelines, coordinating grant reporting requirements, reviewing grant funding source compliance, and negotiating grant funding with awarding agencies. It may also perform indirect cost analysis and hire, train, and supervise a small staff. Recurring activities include monthly invoicing, calculation of accrued and actual expenses and revenues, preparing related journal entries, calculating, aggregating, and submitting monthly invoices and details to Grady management, completing billing in the accounts receivable system, completing reconciliations of related accounts, and preparing monthly reports including budget variances with analysis for accuracy and trends. The role involves continual review of the transaction process to drive efficiencies and improve accuracy, and the ability to manipulate large data sets. Special projects will also be part of the responsibilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, business administration, finance or a related field
• Four years of financial analyst or accounting experience
• Equivalent combination of experience, education, and training

Nice To Haves

• Experience with PeopleSoft Financials
• Working knowledge of GAAP Financial Statements
• Advanced MS Excel skills– (pivot tables, VLOOKUPS, etc.)
• Deadline driven and highly organized
• Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal
• Accounting major or CPA
• Highly motivated, eager to learn, works well with others and ability and willingness to multi-task are a plus

Responsibilities

• Coordinates major financial reporting and budgeting activities.
• Ensures compliance with regulations and reporting requirements.
• Coordinates the correction of account balances, resolves funding issues and maintains proper accounting controls and procedures.
• Makes recommendations to management related to long-range financial and cash flow analyses.
• Prepares and analyzes statistical and financial reports, financial statements and supporting schedules.
• May assist in preparing, developing and monitoring department/organizational budgets.
• May maintain grant agreements, policies and guidelines; coordinate grant reporting requirements; review grant funding source compliance; and negotiate grant funding with awarding agencies.
• May perform indirect cost analysis.
• May hire, train, and supervise a small staff.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.
• Monthly calculation of accrued and actual expenses and revenues and preparing related journal entries.
• Calculating, aggregating and submitting the monthly invoice and detail to Grady management for review and remittance.
• Completion of the billing in the accounts receivable system.
• Completing reconciliations of related accounts.
• Preparing monthly reports including budget variances, including analyzing the information for accuracy and trends, preparing for dissemination and following up with users when required.
• Continual review of the transaction process with the focus on driving out efficiencies and improving accuracy.
• Ability to manipulate large data sets, including relevant calculations, analysis and formatting.
• Assist in special projects in addition to the recurring activities.

Benefits

• Emory University does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment, including recruitment, hiring, promotions, transfers, discipline, terminations, wage and salary administration, benefits, and training.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior