Hybrid Strategic Budget Modeling Analyst

Rutgers University; Piscataway Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 109,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid vacation/leave

Retirement benefits

Employee discounts

Job summary

Rutgers University is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst - Strategic Budget Modeling (SBM) to lead enterprise-wide long-range planning and multi-year forecasting. The role focuses on developing and maintaining ten-year operating outlooks, reconciling data, and delivering analyses to executive leadership.

The successful candidate will have a strong background in financial modeling, Excel, and analytics, with experience in institutional budgeting and collaboration across campus units.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, data analytics, statistics, or related field.
• At least five (5) years of progressive experience that includes financial planning and budgeting; forecasting, trend, and variance analysis; institutional analytics; development and maintenance of complex financial models; and financial analysis supporting management decisions.
• Advanced financial modeling, forecasting, and data-analysis skills, including the ability to develop, maintain, and test complex multi-year financial models.

Responsibilities

• Plays a central role in advancing Rutgers’ enterprise Multi-Year Planning capability and building and maintaining its fully functional ten-year operating outlook.
• Develops long-range forecasts, reconciliations, scenario analyses, and leadership reporting.
• Works across the University Budget Office, Chancellor-Led Units, and functional partners to ensure model assumptions and outputs are accurate, controlled, and decision-ready, and communicates analyses and findings to senior and/or executive leadership.

Skills

Advanced financial modeling

Written communication

Verbal/presentation skills

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, data analytics, statistics, or related field

Tools

Oracle EPM

Tableau

Microsoft Excel (advanced)

Job description

Rutgers University is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst - Strategic Budget Modeling (SBM) to lead enterprise-wide long-range planning and multi-year forecasting. The role focuses on developing and maintaining ten-year operating outlooks, reconciling data, and delivering analyses to executive leadership.

The successful candidate will have a strong background in financial modeling, Excel, and analytics, with experience in institutional budgeting and collaboration across campus units.