MCG Financial Analyst- MCG-Office of Operations

Overview

Augusta University is Georgia's innovation center for education and health care, training the next generation of innovators, leaders, and healthcare providers in classrooms and clinics on four campuses in Augusta and locations across the state. Our mission and values make Augusta University an institution like no other. Augusta University's distinct characteristics include real-world experiences, community engagement, and partnerships that address health, security, economic, and societal concerns locally and statewide.

The University System of Georgia is comprised of 26 institutions of higher education and includes the System Office. Its Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. Freedom of Expression is supported as stated in policy. Location details:
Augusta University Health Sciences Campus and Summerville Campus, Augusta, GA.

Job Summary:

This MCG Financial Analyst position will help support the financial, operational, and analytical infrastructure that drives faculty performance across the Medical College of Georgia. This role manages clinical incentive compensation models, monitors faculty productivity, and supports key financial processes related to research commitments, funding, and return on investment. The analyst provides data-driven insights that guide compensation decisions, resource allocation, and strategic planning across MCG  clinical and research enterprises.

This position will develop and maintain standard reports for MCG while focusing on clinical and research productivity.

• Provide technical and analytical support for the maintenance of MCG  clinical faculty incentive compensation model. Maintain systems governing base salary, supplemental pay, and incentive calculations tied to productivity, funds flow, departmental budgets, and FTE assignments. Conduct compensation benchmarking and model revisions to ensure competitiveness and alignment with institutional goals. Support calculative and analytical models for the evolution of the faculty clinical incentive plan.
  
  Reconcile data sources, validate data integrity, and prepare detailed analyses and reports to support faculty compensation decisions.
• Maintain standardized reporting that monitors MCG  faculty compensation relative to internal and external benchmarks. Manage individual and summative faculty accounts to track progress toward assigned productivity and compensation targets. Perform complex analyses to identify trends, outliers, and opportunities for improvement in both compensation and productivity. Provide ongoing reporting to support operational oversight, strategic planning, and continuous performance improvement across clinical and research missions.
• Track faculty research commitments, including startup packages, bridge funding, and other institutional support. Maintain systems that track research productivity. Develop and maintain reporting on indirect cost recovery (F&A), including trends, distributions, and departmental impacts. Analyze research return on investment (ROI) by evaluating the relationship between institutional support, extramural funding, productivity, and outcomes. Track faculty research effort commitments and ensure alignment with sponsored project requirements, institutional expectations, and compensation structures.
• Assist Manager of MCG Financial Operations with day-to-day financial duties relating to both MCG and GCC commitments. Duties include reviewing and approving budget amendments, funding distribution ePAR transactions, payroll and NPS cost transfers, negative budget corrections, and reconciliations.
• Perform all other job-related duties as assigned.

• Required Qualifications
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  Bachelor  degree from an accredited college or university with two years of experience in financial analysis or other business-related field.
• Preferred Qualifications
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  Practical experience with People Soft HCM and People Soft Financials. Significant experience working with advanced features of Microsoft Excel. Familiarity with AU policies and procedures or experience in higher education, academic, or hospital/clinical environment.
• Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
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• Proven competence in documentation of work processes.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and other computer software/databases.
• Familiarity with AU financial structure and/or higher education financials.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel knowledge including pivot tables, macros, report creating/formatting.
• Established knowledge of industry standards related to physician reimbursement and clinical productivity measurement.
• Skills
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  Robust analytical skills;
  Independent problem-solving skills;
  Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Abilities
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  Ability to maintain confidentiality;
  Reliable and mature judgment;
  Ability to develop collaborative work relationships with varied groups possibly possessing competing priorities.

• Shift: Days;
  Monday - Friday (Work outside of normal business hours…