Senior Financial Analyst

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst with excellent finance and critical thinking skills. In this role, you’ll collaborate with internal stakeholders and senior leadership to deliver insights that drive informed decisions on your assigned divisions. You will perform complex financial analyses—including month-end variance analysis, financial modeling, contractual reconciliations as well as annual budget and any day-to-day departmental financial request. Our ideal candidate has prior financial forecasting and financial planning experience, excellent communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to adjust depending on the circumstances. This position requires excellent Excel/data analysis skills. Prior experience in public institution finance is preferred but not required. Prior experience with OfficeConnect Adaptive is a plus. This position does not support H1B Sponsorship. Incumbent must reside in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. This position is eligible for a hybrid work schedule after 6 months.

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.
• Excellent finance and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Excellent Excel/data analysis skills.
• Must reside in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in public institution finance.
• Prior experience with OfficeConnect Adaptive.

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; 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% 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