Financial Analyst I, School of Public Health

Location

Type, TX | United States

Job description

Financial Analyst I, School of Public Health

Why UT Southwestern?

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As one of the world’s foremost research institutions, UT Southwestern Medical Center is known for our life-changing research that has led us to 6 Nobel Prizes. With a Financial Analyst career in our esteemed School of Public Health, you will be a key part of our multidisciplinary research facility with opportunities to work with leaders in patient care and medical research.

Job Summary

UTSW is seeking an excellent Financial Analyst I with exceptional communication, critical thinking, and organizational skills to help successfully lead to the growing Department of the O’Donnell School of Public Health. This role works closely with the Director of Finance, Department Finance Team, Grants and Contracts Team, and Division Operation Administration. Duties include completion of monthly financial management and reviewing of reports for deficits and errors, analyzing variances, and reviewing of budgeting vs actual performance. Additionally, this role is responsible for departmental reconciliations, monthly and quarterly reports, financial models, and ad hoc financial analysis. It requires the ability to review, reconcile and analyze financial data, while collaborating with multiple departments.

Experience and Education

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or other related field and no experience required.
• Preferred Requirements: Proficiency with Excel. 

Job Duties

• Completes 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.
• Assists with preparing 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 concerned.
• Identifies areas of poor performance, presents findings, and makes recommendations to upper management.
• Prepares financial models and conducts financial analyses.
• May assists in maintaining 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.
• Assists with special projects as requested.
• **Other Duties: Performs other duties as assigned. 

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