Senior Treasury Analyst — Financial Analyst II

MSU Internal Job Postings Details • East Lansing, MI

12d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join Michigan State University’s Treasury team as a Senior Treasury Analyst and play a key role in supporting the university’s endowment, treasury, and investment operations. This position offers a unique opportunity to combine financial analysis, treasury management, endowment administration, and strategic collaboration in a mission-driven higher education environment. The MSU Treasury team is seeking a detail-oriented, full-time senior treasury analyst to support operations.

Requirements

• Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be acquired by completing a four-year college degree program in Accounting or Finance with relevant course work in Computer Science.
• Three to five years of related and progressively more responsible or expansive work experience in professional financial statement preparation including cost accounting or auditing or registration as a Certified Public Accountant.
• Experience in word processing, office management, spreadsheet, and accounting software.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and stay organized in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across departments.

Nice To Haves

• Professional designation or certification such as Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), or Certified Management Accountant (CMA).
• Three to five years of progressively responsible and relevant experience in an endowed institution, financial services firm, or treasury office.
• Strong critical thinking, problem solving, and analytical skills.
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience using enterprise financial systems such as Kuali Financial System.

Responsibilities

• Administering the Charitable Remainder Trust program.
• Assisting University Advancement with analysis of appropriate Trust vehicle for new accounts.
• Interfacing with trust administrator and tax preparation firms to ensure market value and beneficiary payment data is consistent.
• Completing all trust accounting, quarterly and year-end reporting and IRS tax requirements, including ensuring tax returns are complete and accurate.
• Assisting University Advancement with transfers of gifts to the University.
• Establishing new endowment account requests.
• Reviewing endowment agreements, establishing new endowments consistent with accounting and legal requirements.
• Performing annual endowment minimum balance review using university-established criteria.
• Assisting with quarterly and year-end reporting and tax compliance requirements.
• Assisting with endowment spending policy analysis and recommendation.
• Maintaining the information housed in the endowment accounting system.
• Identifying and reporting of underutilized endowment income accounts.
• Preparing the Endowment Fund annual financial report for inclusion in university audited financial statements.
• Analyzing, evaluating, and making recommendations for treasury service provider relationships and services to implement treasury “best practices”.
• Setting up new services.
• Serving as primary liaison with financial service providers; setting up periodic review meetings (internal and external) and coordinating follow-up on issues.
• Assisting departments with the treasury services they require through various options, including website, newsletters, training sessions, and presentations.
• Administering bank account users.
• Maintaining bank account management database.
• Recording interest income on bank and investment accounts.
• Recording other cash receipts such as state appropriation, royalties, and other investments.
• Preparing analysis of monthly bank fees and account earnings to bank contract pricing using account analysis information, following up with bank on errors.
• Computing and distributing investment income to various ledger accounts approved by the CFO; reconciling and reporting income distributions for use in audited financial statements.
• Performing research and analytical work and reporting for special Treasury projects.
• Responsible for self-liquidity reporting to Rating Agencies and preparation on monthly liquidity dashboard.
• Preparing investment reports and maintaining data for reporting on operating cash and other investments.
• Compiling and projecting monthly, quarterly, yearly, and multi-year University cash flows, including those used for liquidity projections and investment income projections.
• Assisting with annual investment income projections.
• Assisting with daily and monthly cash activities.
• Assisting with year-end reporting of cash and investment activities for inclusion in the University audited financial statements.
• Serving as team analyst for Request for Proposal projects.
• Assisting with projects and analyses as requested by the office and/or executive management.
• Serving as back-up to any Treasury and Financial Management staff.

Benefits

• Consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.

What This Job Offers

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