Financial Analyst

About the position

Reporting to the Director of Post Award Research Administration, this position will be responsible for developing detailed financial analyses and reconciliation reports to monitor the School of Public Health's sponsored research portfolio. This position will assist in budget development, subsequent Q2 and year-end monitoring for the 6 YSPH Departments. It will be responsible for the production and distribution of comprehensive reporting and analysis packages detailing budget to actual spending, funding and payment reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Provides specialized technical analysis to determine present and future financial performance.
• Organizes information from a variety of sources to establish data banks for use in analyzing and creating future plans and forecasts.
• Guides and collaborates with all levels of management to gather, analyze, summarize, prepare, and present recommendations regarding financial plans.
• Researches and evaluates information to resolve issues and/or influence decisions.
• Conceptualizes, develops and executes multi-variable complex financial models.
• Analyzes and synthesizes information and designs and creates accurate and timely reports.
• Designs financial reporting to meet the compliance needs of internal and external users.
• Extracts and consolidates data from multiple sources.
• Influences, plans, and designs methods to improve practices, processes and systems.
• Leads and partners with all levels of internal and external contacts to execute departmental and/or institutional level goals.
• Translates department finance strategies into goals.
• Anticipates, identifies, and raises potential financial opportunities, issues, risks, ideas and solutions.
• Establishes, implements and/or maintains strong internal controls in areas of assigned responsibility.
• Mentors, leads and/or supervises staff.
• Performs complex account reconciliation and produces financial and management reports for all sponsored awards on a recurring basis.
• Investigates and resolves any irregularities identified during the reconciliation process.
• Performs reviews for risk identification and completes trend analysis by departments and/or by PIs in the research portfolio.
• Collaborates with Post Award Accounting Staff and Manager of Administrative Services to resolve compliance & financial related issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Economics or Finance.
• Six years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated application of financial, accounting and economic concepts.

Nice-to-haves

• Grant related experience in a university or non-profit environment.
• Working knowledge of Yale business systems (Workday, YBT, IRES).
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.