Finance Manager - Budget & Forecasting (Remote/Hybrid)

Abundance Network

United States

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Stanford University School of Medicine is seeking a Financial Manager to support the Budget and Financial Planning group in developing a 15‑year forecast and an annual consolidated budget of about $4.5 billion. The role involves coordinating the budget process, performing advanced financial analysis, and presenting results to senior management.

It requires initiative, strong communication, and expertise in financial systems and reporting.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, or Accounting.
Expertise in budget applications and advanced PowerPoint and Excel/Google Sheets functions, including pivot tables and graphing.
Ability to craft impactful presentations to enhance financial transparency and deliver financial analysis results and implications.
Exceptional quantitative and financial analytical skills, especially with financial projections and forecasting.
Ability to take initiative and ownership of projects.
Strong problem-solving skills, working with stakeholders and other team members to fully analyze issues and develop insights and actionable recommendations.
Expertise in institutional accounting systems, databases, data extraction methods, and report presentation.
Self-starter and demonstrated capability to gain the respect of others, influence people of varying levels of authority in multiple organizations, and elicit cooperation without direct authority.
Understanding of fund accounting and the operations of a medical school.
Knowledge of Stanford's Oracle financial systems, data structures, and methods of report generation is highly preferable.

Responsibilities

Perform highly analytical, complex finance and control functions; multi-dimensional and complex reconciliations and related analysis; prepare or review and approve complex transactions and higher level dollar value transactions.
Research, and synthesize data for broad areas; develop complex financial analyses, budget and forecasting scenarios, long-range planning, and analyses.
Develop complex financial reports and presentations, design and run ad hoc reports, and prepare or review complex transactions to support the stewardship of university resources.
Provide consultation to senior leadership to interpret results.
Prioritize, identify, and resolve strategic and unit/department issues; recognize exceptions, recommend and develop resolutions and implement solution.
Design an effective system of internal controls for area of responsibility utilizing strategic analysis of interrelationships of financial processes, policies, and procedures; implement and ensure compliance programs.
Lead multiple complex, high-visibility process innovation projects. Develop, champion and implement strategic initiatives with significant impact.
Develop, assess, and continuously improve systems and processes to achieve greater efficiencies and improve internal controls.
Analyze problems in business critical systems, and identify risks, solutions, and strategies; act as business owner of project.
Represent organization to client group(s) and leaders: serve as subject matter expert on matters that involve complex technical, financial, or subject matter expertise.
Assess client and business needs, and formulate recommendations to determine approach to managing and completing processes.
May supervise, train, coach, and review the work of other staff, as needed.