Senior Financial Analyst, Office of the Provost/Finance

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

7h

About The Position

UT Southwestern Medical Center is seeking an excellent Senior Financial Analyst with exceptional communication, critical thinking, and organizational skills to be used for the dynamic and growing department of Provost Finance. The Senior Financial Analyst will analyze past financial performance to predict future performance and to advise Academic Affairs executive level team members on financial strategy. This position will be responsible for working directly with Academic Affairs Department Administrators and the Budget Office. This role is viewed as a liaison for the Office of the Provost and Medical School Dean’s Office and requires customer service and communication skills as it interacts directly with Department Administrators, the Vice Provosts, and Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Academic Affairs and Medical Group, and his leadership team.

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.

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