Senior Financial Analyst, SPA Maintenance

About the position

This position will be part of our SPA Maintenance Team within Post-Award. Typical tasks include analysis of Unobligated Balances, Award Reconciliation, completing Rebudgeting, and Error Remediation. Members of this team work closely with the research departments maintaining their research awards as well as performing many exception reports throughout the month to ensure accuracy of data analytics. Understanding of fund accounting, research administration and grant accounting will greatly facilitate your ability to transition more smoothly into this role.

Responsibilities

• Completes variety of complex 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.
• Prepares and/or supervises preparation of 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.
• Identifies areas of poor performance, presents findings, and makes recommendations to upper management.
• Prepares financial models and conducts financial analyses.
• May maintain 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.
• Completes more complex special projects as requested.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in finance, accounting, or other related field
• 4 years of progressively responsible experience in finance and/or accounting with experience in planning, forecasting, and financial analysis.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer