242585 - University of Oklahoma

Are you an experienced financial professional with a keen eye for detail and a passion for accuracy? Join the CCE Training and Research Center as a Senior Financial Analyst and take charge of overseeing all financial activities for our dynamic department.

In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for managing and analyzing financial operations across multiple customer accounts, ensuring rigorous cost tracking, and providing essential budgeting guidance. As the Senior Financial Analyst, you will supervise a Senior Accounting Specialist and play a crucial role in backfilling their position during absences. Your daily responsibilities will include scrutinizing actuals against budgets, ensuring proper revenue and expenditure coding, and preparing customer invoices.

A key aspect of this position involves the creation and management of rate calculations, including the maintenance of approximately 23 rate cards. You will ensure that all rate developments comply with Uniform Guidance and will be responsible for creating supporting documentation, managing change processes, and auditing rate card activities.

Additionally, you will handle reconciliations between rate card balances and University financial systems, prepare quarterly spending reports, and manage cost transfers to ensure accurate financial categorization. You will also uphold University financial practices and procedures.

Beyond financial oversight, you will support the Training Center with various administrative tasks such as scheduling classrooms, procuring materials, and managing facilities.

If you are a meticulous and proactive financial analyst ready to contribute to a thriving training and research environment, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Essential Duties -

• Provides management, administration and/or analysis and evaluation of financial activities within a college or complex university department.
• Supervises a major complex segment of the Universityrsquo;s financial operation.
• Designs and oversees the preparation of reports requiring the consolidation of a large volume of highly complex accounting and/or financial data into formats suitable for presentation.
• Develops, implements, and maintains financial and budget systems to ensure proper allocation of expenditures and compliance with applicable regulations.
• Develop and monitor the annual budget for the college/department.
• Develops and maintains internal controls and accounting procedures.
• Advises regarding audit responses.
• Monitors departmental activities in financial and operational areas for compliance with audit recommendations.
• Assists in long-range financial planning.
• Prepares and analyzes financial statements, and costing forecasts, and interprets generally accepted accounting principles.
• Communicates with external organizational representatives to resolve complex financial problems. Supervises and trains staff.
• Develops and implements integrated processes and applications for periodic and ad hoc financial reporting and utilizing complex electronic financial information from systems and databases.
• Compiles and analyzes financial information from all components of the organizational entity, and develops integrated revenue/expense analysis, projections, reports, and presentations.
• Coordinates, compiles, and analyzes annual financial statements for the organization and its component units, utilizing complex spreadsheet and database applications.
• Analyzes, designs, documents, and implements internal financial reporting systems and procedures for the organization or specific operational entities.
• Provides leadership and coordination to various technical personnel engaged in specified project activities, as appropriate.
• Performs various duties as needed to successfully fulfill the function of the position.