Remote Financial Planning & Forecasting Manager

Stanford University School of Medicine; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanford University School of Medicine is recruiting a Financial Manager in its Budget and Financial Planning group. The role will help develop the School's 15-year financial forecast and manage the annual consolidated budget of approximately $4.5 billion, coordinating with departments to support budget tools and analytics.

You will present analyses to senior leaders, drive process improvements, and provide expert financial guidance across the School.

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. Perform root-cause analysis and synthesis, draw conclusions, and propose solutions.
• 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. Ensure effective and efficient delivery and integration of all financial services for area of responsibility.
• 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. Empower action, remove obstacles, enable constructive feedback and support from leaders, and reward and recognize progress and achievements.
• Develop, assess, and continuously improve systems and processes to achieve greater efficiencies and improve internal controls. Design and provide training on new financial systems.
• 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. Contribute primarily through applying individual expertise.

Skills

Budgeting & Forecasting

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint & Google Sheets

Financial analysis

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, or Accounting

Tools

Oracle Financials

Job description

Stanford University School of Medicine is recruiting a Financial Manager in its Budget and Financial Planning group. The role will help develop the School's 15-year financial forecast and manage the annual consolidated budget of approximately $4.5 billion, coordinating with departments to support budget tools and analytics.

You will present analyses to senior leaders, drive process improvements, and provide expert financial guidance across the School.