Senior Business Analyst - Psychiatry

ummc; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) seeks a Senior Business Analyst - Psychiatry at Main Campus Jackson to support daily departmental operations. You will monitor, audit, and reconcile accounts and prepare routine and specialized reports while ensuring compliance with HR, finance, and purchasing processes.

Responsibilities include budgeting, payroll support, contracts, invoicing, and maintenance of facilities and equipment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, budgeting, or finance.
• 3 years of experience in business administration, budgeting, or finance.
• Strong accounting, auditing, purchasing, and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepares departmental budgets.
• Researches, monitors, analyzes, investigates, and reconciles account balance discrepancies.
• Recommends procedural improvements and corrective actions.
• Creates and updates labor distributions, initiates and tracks personnel actions, resolves payroll issues, and monitors timekeeping and leave-reporting processes.
• Maintains and reconciles departmental contracts.
• Coordinates invoice payments, processes travel and expense reimbursements, and maintains receivables.
• Handles deposits, check requests, and petty cash, and supports month-end and year-end reporting activities.
• Oversees departmental facilities and equipment.
• Plans and manages maintenance of departmental space, oversees renovation projects and equipment acquisitions, maintains supply chain processes, and resolves supply-related issues.
• Ensures departmental compliance with regulatory requirements and internal/external laws.
• Participates as a member of the operations team to improve cost containment, increase productivity, and meet operational demands.
• Develops monthly, annual, and ad hoc financial reports and analyses.
• Maintains IHL budgeting reports.
• Assists with the post‑award management of department‑based grants.

Skills

Budgeting

Accounting

Analytical skills

MS Office

Data maintenance

Verbal and written communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration, budgeting, or finance

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Title

Senior Business Analyst - Psychiatry

Organization

SOM-Psychiatry-Neurobiology and Behavior Research-Division Director

Location/s

Main Campus Jackson

Job Category

Professional and Technical

Job Requisition ID

R00054094

Job Summary

Performs a broad range of administrative services and business analysis in support of daily departmental operations. Monitors, audits, and reconciles departmental accounts. Prepares routine and specialized statistical reports. Ensures compliance with operational activities related to human resources, finance and budgeting, facilities, research, timekeeping, and purchasing functions.

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree and three (3) years of experience in business administration, budgeting, or finance.

Certifications, Licenses, or Registration required

N/A

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Knowledge of and skill in administrative, accounting, budgeting, auditing, purchasing, and analytical principles, practices, and procedures. Skill in the use of computers and related software applications, including Microsoft Office products, database applications, and spreadsheets. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Skill in records management and data maintenance. Skill in interacting diplomatically with individuals from diverse educational, social, and cultural backgrounds. Ability to gather and analyze information, prepare reports, and resolve problems. Ability to establish and maintain effective collaborative working relationships. Ability to comply with applicable regulatory requirements and UMMC policies, procedures, and other internal and external laws and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Prepares departmental budgets.
• Researches, monitors, analyzes, investigates, and reconciles account balance discrepancies.
• Recommends procedural improvements and corrective actions.
• Creates and updates labor distributions, initiates and tracks personnel actions, resolves payroll issues, and monitors timekeeping and leave-reporting processes.
• Maintains and reconciles departmental contracts.
• Coordinates invoice payments, processes travel and expense reimbursements, and maintains receivables.
• Handles deposits, check requests, and petty cash, and supports month-end and year-end reporting activities.
• Oversees departmental facilities and equipment.
• Plans and manages maintenance of departmental space, oversees renovation projects and equipment acquisitions, maintains supply chain processes, and resolves supply-related issues.
• Ensures departmental compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements and UMMC policies, procedures, and other internal and external laws and regulations related to operational activities.
• Participates as a member of the operations team to improve cost containment, increase productivity, and meet operational demands.
• Develops monthly, annual, and ad hoc financial reports and analyses.
• Maintains IHL budgeting reports.
• Assists with the post‑award management of department‑based grants.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Requires occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a se