Senior Financial Analyst

• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: 75,700-87,700

Position Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for clinical practice payroll accounting/budgeting and endowment management for multiple clinical departments. Reporting to the Manager of Budget and Finance, responsibilities include the following:

Responsibilities

• Budgeting. Assist with preparation of annual salary budgets for multiple clinical departments. Maintain salary current estimates, updating for new hires, terminations, and off-cycle compensation changes throughout the year
• Labor Accounting. Requires thorough understanding of CU payroll system (PAC).
  
  
  
  1. Perform cost transfers, salary distributions and add-comp distributions, both routine and off-cycle, for on-going reallocation of salary expense to applicable funding sources.
  2. Collaborate with multiple HR departments for faculty and staff hires, promotions, terminations and salary changes; provide financial information needed for HR processes.
  3. Prepare and enter monthly, quarterly and annual on-call, incentive and bonus payments for faculty.
  4. Monitor salary expense to ensure accurate payroll. Prepare monthly budget vs. annual analysis to evaluate overages.
  
  
  
  
• Annual Roster. Assist with preparation of divisional rosters for review by CFO and division chiefs. Assist with preparation of formal roster, incorporating clinical finance comp-plan data for the practice component of roster for annual submission to CUIMC HR.
• Endowment management. Maintains thorough understanding of endowment rules and regulations. Assist with preparation of annual endowment expense budgets and monitor budget versus actual throughout the year. Work with department management teams to coordinate year- end spending of Core endowments.
• Monthly transactions. Internal transfers for monthly assessments, OFS clearing, salary transfers, and other routine and one-off transfers as needed.
• Prepare ad hoc reports often requiring preparation on short notice with limited information.
• Collaborates with multiple levels of organization for problem resolution and ongoing routine issues. Serves as initial contact for all labor accounting inquiries.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• 
  

  Requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in education and experience, plus three (3) years of related experience.

  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Accounting credits/experience a plus.
• Preferred advanced degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration.

Other Requirements

• Must have strong analytical abilities.
• Must be able to manage and analyze large and complex data sets with a high degree of accuracy.
• Must be able to manage a high volume workload.
• Must have strong organizational skills and capable of working independently as well as collaboratively.
• Must be detail oriented and be able to handle competing priorities.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills required; excellent customer service.
• Intermediate to advanced level MS Office skills, PeopleSoft, Adobe and Visio.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran

Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents.