Senior Financial Analyst, Center Genetics

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 a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals.

Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you'll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career!

The Center for Genetics of Host Defense provides resources for our scientists who have discovered numerous mutations that mitigate diseases, most notably mutations arresting the growth of cancers. If your career ambitions include working with world leaders in research, we have an opening for a bright, energetic Senior Financial Analyst to work and grow their career proving financial and grant support to our outstanding faculty.

This position will assist the laboratory manager in placing orders, managing department funds, daily monitoring and adjustments to the budget and chart of accounts (COA); GL interdepartmental requests; assign appropriate COA, approve transactions, credit card reconciliation, approve requests in iLabs and other core facility platforms; monthly faculty meetings to discuss financial statements and future budget forecasting and submit the annual budget.

Please note, this position does not support H1B visa sponsorship.

UT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include:

• 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
• Learn more about these and other UTSW employee benefits!

• Education Bachelor's Degree in finance, accounting, or other related field

• Experience 4 years of progressively responsible experience in finance and/or accounting with experience in planning, forecasting, and financial analysis.

• Prepares monthly financial models and analyses for the faculty and meets with them monthly to review.
• Prepares annual operating budget for the Center with the DA, provides cost and revenue forecasting using current and historical data.
• Provides guidance to PIs for grant proposal development and submission by interpreting sponsor and university announcements and guidelines on application preparation.
• Prepares budgets for all submissions, ensuring salary and fringe benefit costs are accurate. Submits grants into eGrants and works with SPA to ensure timely submission to sponsor. May also work in outside portals such as Proposal Central and CPRIT.
• Performs Pre-Award Coordination by analyzing requests for pre-award spending in advance of receiving awards; advised all concerned parties of their responsibilities in meeting special award requirements and process requests in eGrants as needed.
• Provides Post-Award Coordination support to researchers by processing awards, interpreting award terms & conditions, and obtaining approvals for award changes, progress reports, transfers, and close-outs.
• Process requests in eGrants. Primary liaison with SPA Accounting to ensure timely award and/or contract set up and closeout.
• 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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