Financial Analyst

• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: 62,400-78,600

Position Summary

The Financial Analyst is responsible for clinical practice payroll accounting and reports to the Manager of Budget and Finance.

Responsibilities

• Assist with preparation of annual salary budgets for multiple clinical departments. Maintain salary current estimates, updating for new hires, terminations, and off-cycle compensation changes throughout the year
• Perform cost transfers, salary distributions and add-comp distributions, both routine and off-cycle, for on-going reallocation of salary expense to applicable funding sources.
• Collaborate with multiple HR departments for faculty and staff hires, promotions, terminations and salary changes; provide financial information needed for HR processes.
• Prepare and enter monthly, quarterly and annual on-call, incentive and bonus payments for faculty and staff.
• Prepare tracking sheet, upload backup support documentation on payroll SharePoint, and enter faculty discretionary payments in PAC for the VP&S payroll approval process.
• Prepare supporting documents and enter in PAC transactions for Post-Doc Incidentals payments for residents.
• Monitor salary expense to ensure accurate payroll. Prepare monthly budget vs. annual analysis to evaluate overages.
• Assist with preparation of divisional rosters for review by CFO and division chiefs. Assist with preparation of formal roster, incorporating clinical finance comp-plan data for the practice component of roster for annual submission to CUIMC HR.
• Prepare ad hoc reports often requiring preparation on short notice with limited information.
• Collaborates with multiple levels of organization for problem resolution and ongoing routine issues.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

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  Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent in education and experience.

  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Accounting credits/experience a plus.
• Preferred advanced degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration.

Other Requirements

• Must have strong analytical abilities.
• Must be able to manage and analyze large and complex data sets with a high degree of accuracy.
• Must be able to manage a high-volume workload.
• Must have strong organizational skills and capable of working independently as well as collaboratively.
• Must be detail oriented and be able to handle competing priorities.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills required, excellent customer service.
• Intermediate to advanced level MS Office skills, PeopleSoft, and Adobe

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

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