Financial Services Analyst, Music Department

Financial Services Analyst, Music Department (5184C) #88279

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The Department of Music at Berkeley is one of the oldest and most prominent in the country, bringing together a renowned group of composers, scholars, and performers. For more than 100 years, UC Berkeley's Department of Music has championed professionalism, academic rigor, and the highest caliber of research. The department is dedicated to a liberal education in the Arts and Humanities, introducing students to a wide variety of music practices in performance, music composition and technology, and theoretical and creative studies, as well as historical and cultural studies.

The curriculum is responsive to the interests of a diverse student body and cultivates a broad expertise in the field.

The Department of Music boasts a roster of distinguished Bay Area artists offering individual musical instruction, a treasured collection of classical instruments, and four buildings:
Hertz Concert Hall, the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, the Center for New Music and Audio Technology, and Morrison Hall. Through its courses and concerts, the department reaches out to hundreds of students from other departments, to its many alumni, and to the general public.

The Financial Services Analyst supports an intellectually vibrant community of faculty, students, and staff in the Department of Music, and collaborates with the Department's Shared Services Region, as well as the Divisional Finance office. The primary focus of this position is to oversee the Department's day-to-day financial operations across multiple functional areas, including operations, temporary academic support, the graduate program, gifts and endowments, faculty research funds, and public programming.

Working closely with and under the direction of the Department Manager, but with a level of independence, the Financial Services Analyst will conduct financial reporting, maintain departmental budgets, audit payroll and payroll expenses, process reimbursements and other payments, and oversee expenditures. They will assist various department members with finance-related needs, including maintenance of research funds, programmatic budgets, purchases, reimbursements, and other finance support.

In partnership with the Departmental Manager, they will also maintain compliance with all Division and Campus requirements.

The First Review Date for this job is September 8, 2026. For full consideration, please apply on or before the first review date.

• Processes and/or approves financial transactions, including:
  Bear Buy requisitions and vouchers; expense reimbursements;
  Position, Funding Entry, and Salary Cost Transfer requests in UCPath; bluCard purchases; SIS department award entries;
  Accounts Receivable invoices.
• Serves as liaison with SHARE Region and coordinates with: HR/Payroll Team and relevant department staff on Faculty, Staff, ASE, GSR, and Student Assistant appointments, for faculty summer salary requests, and payroll-related inquiries and issues;
  Purchasing Team on purchase order requests and invoice payments; RA Team for contracts and grants-funded faculty research projects.
• Effectively addresses difficult and complex customer inquiries.
• Develops and recommends improvements and modifications to streamline financial services operations.
• Implements quality customer service standards and procedures to affect various constituencies, including faculty, staff, and students, as well as external vendors and outside parties or individuals.
• Documents procedures for financial activities.
• Functions as a resource to faculty and staff on issues such as researching complex financial discrepancies, escalated customer service problems, and vendor concerns.
• Trains faculty, staff, and students when changes in…