Senior Manager Financial Planning and Analysis, Budget Accountant

Cincinnati State•Cincinnati, OH

70d•$75,000

About The Position

Cincinnati State is seeking a talented financial professional to lead our financial planning and analysis (FP&A) function. The ideal candidate will combine finance and accounting skills with analytic and query skills to improve the College's strategic decision-making and lead efforts to improve the process efficiencies within the finance and accounting department. The position will report directly to the College's Chief Financial Officer and will work very closely with the Controller, Bursar/Treasurer, and Purchasing/Grant Accounting (and members of their teams). Successful candidates will be able to complete projects independently and possess a high degree of curiosity. As the leader of the College's FP&A you will have the opportunity to delivered value to the College in a manner that is not scripted. The successful candidate will combine the skills described herein with strategy and curiosity to own this position and develop the role and their own skills in ways that cannot be adequately described in a job description. The successful candidate will be joining one of the largest and most stable institutions of higher education in the region. State employee retirement and benefits are significant and a material portion of the total compensation for this position. The FP&A leader will be responsible for analyzing any data affecting the College's finances and provide strategic, tactical and ad hoc insight into results and forecasts. The position will be required to perform recurring work to support the finance and accounting department such as financial statement preparation, forecasts, support for the annual budget preparation, and recurring reports, reconciliations, and journal entries. Significant opportunity exists to streamline recurring duties throughout the department, and any candidate who can assist in streamline processes and reporting will be highly successful in this role.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited university preferably within Accounting.
Minimum 3 years of FP&A experience
Must be able to demonstrate experience in the following: o Understand and generate financial statements; o Extract data from enterprise level Accounting systems; o Generate queries from databases; o Manipulate data using excel (e.g., pivot table and other comparable excel formulas); o Build financial models (e.g., forecasts, budgets) in excel; o Generate accounting reconciliations o Create Journal Entries.
Must be competent in manipulating financial data using Excel, ERP systems, and Financial Tools by demonstrating the following.
Ability to draft queries and utilize analytic tools such as SQL, DAX, M Language, R, Python, Power Query, Power BI, Tableau, Informer, etc. is required.

Nice To Haves

Detail oriented and curiosity to understand processes.
Ability to complete work independently.
5 years' experience of Financial Planning and Analysis.
Higher Education experience will be considered but is not required.
CPA and/or post-graduate degrees will be considered, but are not required.

Responsibilities

analyzing any data affecting the College's finances
provide strategic, tactical and ad hoc insight into results and forecasts
financial statement preparation
forecasts
support for the annual budget preparation
recurring reports, reconciliations, and journal entries
streamline recurring duties throughout the department

Benefits

Cincinnati State provides employees with high quality and cost-effective benefits with a variety of options:
Medical Insurance (PPO- employer covers up to 92% of the premium, HDHP- employer covers 100% of the premium)
Dental Insurance (employer covers 100% of the premium)
Vision Insurance
NO WAITING PERIODS! Medical, Vision and Dental benefits are effective from day one of employment!
Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Account (employer contributions)
Short-Term Disability: Offering 60% of your salary
Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance (employer paid)
Supplemental Life Insurance, Critical Illness and Accident: Optional at employee expense
Pet Insurance
Employee Assistance Plan for employees, spouse and dependents
Tuition Waiver for employees, spouse and dependents
Tuition Reimbursement
Free parking
11 annual paid holidays in addition to generous paid time off options including vacation, sick, personal leave, and winter season days.
Employees at Cincinnati State qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
As a Cincinnati State employee, and an employee of an Ohio public institution, you will not contribute to the Federal Social Security system. Instead, our employees will contribute to a State Retirement Plan (SERS or STRS) or an Alternative Retirement Plan (ARP): 403B and/or Deferred Compensation Program 457 Plan.