Senior Financial Analyst, Sponsored Programs

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 at UT Southwestern Medical Center, 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

UT Southwestern Medical Center is seeking an excellent Senior Financial Analyst with exceptional communication, critical thinking, and organizational skills to be used for the dynamic and growing department of Sponsored Programs. In this role, you will join our Clinical Finance team. You will be responsible for working with our clinical research budgets, billing, revenue, reconciliation of accounts, grants award closeout, and our ClinCard system. This team is growing due to emphasis to move clinical billing and budgeting centrally at the University. Our ideal candidate has advanced analytical abilities including knowledge/experience with pivot tables, V-lookups, use of macros to further analysis, and reviewing financial information related to clinical research and the on-going maintenance, reporting or closeout processes similarly as our post-award teams. You will be responsible for special projects utilizing additional analysis tools such as queries and reports downloaded from PeopleSoft to effectively work through the day-to-day tasks of this role.

Experience and Education

Minimum Requirements

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

Job Duties

• 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. 

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This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information. UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.