Senior Financial Performance Analyst

Title Information

Security Sensitive Position?

Security Sensitive Position? Yes

Hours of Work

Position Information

Posting Number

Posting Number TSU
203823

Official TSU Title Senior Financial Performance Analyst

Grant Title N/A

Job Description Summary / TWC Summary

The Senior Financial Performance Analyst supports the University’s financial performance, reporting, and funding oversight activities, with primary responsibility for state and federal funded initiatives. The Analyst is responsible for monitoring, analyzing, forecasting, and reporting funding utilization; tracking reimbursements and drawdowns; and helping ensure funded activities are appropriately documented and managed in accordance with applicable requirements and University priorities. The Analyst works across FP&A, Accounting, Finance Business Partners, academic and administrative leadership, Governmental Relations, Sponsored Programs, Compliance, and other University stakeholders to improve financial visibility, planning, reporting, and compliance assurance.

The position maintains visibility into funding balances, eligible expenditures, commitments, reimbursement and drawdown activity, reporting requirements, compliance risks, and projected utilization. The Analyst also supports broader financial performance analysis, reporting, forecasting, and strategic initiatives as assigned. The Analyst exercises significant independent judgment, provides specialized financial expertise, coordinates cross-functional activities, and influences financial decisions without direct supervisory responsibility.

• Serve as a key FP&A financial resource for state and federal funding initiatives requiring financial tracking, reporting, analysis, and compliance assurance.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of applicable funding allocations, awards, strategies, restrictions, allowable uses, periods of availability, reporting requirements, and other financial requirements.
• Maintain a comprehensive inventory of significant state and federal funded initiatives within the assigned portfolio.
• Track funding by source, award or strategy, organization, program, initiative, and other relevant classifications.
• Monitor actual expenditures, commitments, and other activity against available funding and approved financial plans.
• Maintain current projections of full-year funding utilization.
• Identify potential under utilization, over utilization, funding gaps, or other financial risks.
• Investigate significant differences between planned and actual utilization.
• Coordinate with Finance Business Partners, program owners, and organizational leadership to address projected funding gaps, unused balances, and required actions.
• Provide regular updates to Financial Performance & Reporting and FP&A leadership regarding funding status, utilization, risks, compliance considerations, and required actions.

• Develop and maintain a proactive University-wide approach to the financial management and utilization of assigned state and federal funding.
• Identify eligible expenditures that may appropriately be funded through available state or federal sources.
• Evaluate opportunities to align eligible expenditures with available funding in accordance with applicable requirements.
• Perform financial analysis supporting expenditure reclassification or funding realignment where permitted and appropriate.
• Analyze historical utilization patterns and identify opportunities to improve future planning, execution, and financial performance.
• Partner with FP&A leadership to incorporate state and federal funding considerations into annual budgets, forecasts, and long-range financial plans.

• Monitor reimbursement, drawdown, expenditure, and reporting deadlines and coordinate timely submission of required financial information.
• Coordinate supporting financial documentation required for reimbursements, drawdowns, and funding-related reporting.
• Review reimbursement and drawdown calculations for completeness and accuracy.
• Track reimbursement and drawdown activity from initiation through receipt or completion.
• Reconcile reimbursement and drawdown activity with University financial records.
• Identify outstanding items and coordinate appropriate follow-up with responsible stakeholders.
• Maintain documentation supporting calculations, submissions, eligibility, and funding utilization.
• Provide regular reporting regarding submitted, outstanding, and completed reimbursement and…