Financial Analyst (Engineering for Professionals)

Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore seeks a Financial Analyst to support the Engineering for Professionals and Executive and Professional Education teams within the Engineering Business Office by analyzing financial data, monitoring budgets, and preparing reports and projections to guide business decisions.

The role performs financial analysis, budgeting support, cost and revenue monitoring, and prepares management reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related field.
• Three years of progressively responsible related financial experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Responsibilities

• Interpret data to evaluate and determine past financial performance and/or make financial projections for management whom must make overall business decisions.
• Provide interpretation of accounts, methods, and records for management.
• Conduct studies of cost and financial results of business activities; recommend adjustments and other cost improvement measures.
• Review costs and perform cost benefit analysis for projects and/or programs.
• Produce financial reports for forecasting, trending, and results analysis.
• Provide reports, findings, and recommendations to management.
• Assist with preparation of special studies, reports, and analyses.
• Recommend budget adjustments and other cost improvement measures.
• Recommend quality control and process improvements regarding the overall business process.
• Review and assist with analysis of capital expenditures proposals, profit plans, operating records and financial statements.
• Make recommendations for resolving funding shortfalls.
• Oversee simple to moderately complex budget accounts
• Keep abreast and apply a working knowledge of laws and regulations that impact compliance.
• Use various software applications such as spreadsheets, relational databases, statistical packages to assemble, manipulate, and format data.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related field

Tools

Excel

Job description

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first researchuniversity and home to nine world-class academic divisions workingtogether as one university.

The Whiting School of Engineering is seeking a FinancialAnalyst to support the Engineering for Professionals and the Executive and Professional Education teams within the Engineering Business Office by analyzing financial data, monitoringbudgets and expenditures, and preparing reports and projectionsthat help guide business decisions.

The Financial Analyst performs analysis and data reviews toassist management in establishing and controlling budgets, settingfinancial goals, making projections, and meeting fiscal objectives.Performs financial activities in support of various functions,e.g., budgeting, financial planning, revenue and expendituremonitoring against budget, reconciliations and changes, andconsolidation. Extracts financial data from various accounting andinformation systems and generates reports. Performs basic tomoderately complex statistical cost and financial analysis ofreports and data and prepares reports for management to improvefinancial performance and compliance.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Interpret data to evaluate and determine past financialperformance and/or make financial projections for management whomust make overall business decisions.
• Provide interpretation of accounts, methods, and records formanagement.
• Conduct studies of cost and financial results of businessactivities; recommend adjustments and other cost improvementmeasures.
• Review costs and perform cost benefit analysis for projectsand/or programs.
• Produce financial reports for forecasting, trending, andresults analysis.
• Provide reports, findings, and recommendations tomanagement.
• Assist with preparation of special studies, reports, andanalyses.
• Recommend budget adjustments and other cost improvementmeasures.
• Recommend quality control and process improvements regardingthe overall business process.
• Review and assist with analysis of capital expendituresproposals, profit plans, operating records and financialstatements.
• Make recommendations for resolving funding shortfalls.
• Oversee simple to moderately complex budget accounts
• Keep abreast and apply a working knowledge of laws andregulations that impact compliance.
• Use various software applications such as spreadsheets,relational databases, statistical packages to assemble, manipulate,and format data.
• Other duties as assigned.

In addition to the duties described above

• Prepare monthly reconciliations.
• Prepare revenue invoices and transfers.
• Prepare payroll transactions for appointments andcontracts.
• Prepare accounts payable transactions (check and POrequests).

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or relatedfield.

• Three years of progressively responsible related financialexperience.

• Additional education may substitute for required experience andadditional related experience may substitute for required educationbeyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extentpermitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Technical Skills & Expected Level of Proficiency

• Analytical Skills - Developing
• Budgeting - Developing
• Data Extraction and Reporting - Developing
• Financial Analysis and Reporting - Developing
• Financial Forecasting - Developing
• Financial Software - Developing
• Process Improvement - Developing
• Regulatory Compliance - Developing
• Statistical Analysis for Finance - Developing

The core technical skills listed are most essential;additional technical skills may be required based on specificdivision or department needs.

Classified Title: Financial Analyst
Role/Level/Range: ATP/03/PC
Starting Salary Range: $55,145 - $96,760 Annually (Commensuratew/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: M-F, 37.5 hrs wkly
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Hybrid/Mount Washington Campus
Department name: EP Personnel
Personnel area: Whiting School of Engineering

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to apre-employment background check.

During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition ofemployment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employeeswho provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care orclinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination orpossess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meetthis requirement may result in termination of employment.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas,laboratories, working with research subjects, or involvingcommunity contact requires documentation of immune status againstRubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella(chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received theTdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may includedocumentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicellavaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratorytesting. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases areordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except forthose employees who provide results of blood tests or immunizationdocumentation from their own health care providers. Anyvaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no costin our Occupational Health office.

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