Senior Finance Analyst – Hybrid (Executive Budgeting)

UC San Diego Health; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

UC San Diego Health is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to provide senior-level financial oversight and strategic decision support for its complex, distributed clinical and academic portfolio.

Reporting to the OCMO Senior Director of Finance, you will lead financial management, develop budgets and forecasts, create executive dashboards, and ensure internal controls across a multi-site organization, influencing resource allocation and strategic priorities.

Qualifications

• Advanced financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Experience translating complex financial data for executive audiences.
• Ability to develop dashboards and executive-level reports.
• Experience in healthcare or academic medical center preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive financial oversight for the CMO portfolio, including revenue, gifts, labor and non-labor expenses, projections, and variance analysis.
• Consolidate and analyze financial data across multiple financial units and funding sources.
• Review, reconcile, and analyze general ledger activity; prepare and post journal entries as needed.
• Develop short- and long-term budgets, forecasts, and multi-year financial projections.
• Lead year-end close activities and ensure compliance with institutional timelines and requirements.
• Independently identify financial discrepancies, assess risk, and develop solutions and recommendations.
• Design and maintain executive-level reports, dashboards, and presentations to support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Provide actionable financial insights to Chiefs, Directors, and leadership to inform resource allocation, staffing, and budget decisions.
• Perform turnover, labor, and trend analyses to support workforce and operational planning.
• Manage purchasing activities, vendor relationships, and contract lifecycles for the CMO portfolio.
• Advise leadership on complex procurement issues, including sole-source justifications, multiple funding sources, and appropriate use of funds.
• Review and interpret system-wide policies and initiatives with budgetary impact; assess implications for OCMO operations.
• Establish, monitor, and enforce internal financial controls in compliance with departmental, university, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead the development and implementation of departmental financial policies, procedures, and internal controls.
• Serve as a OCMO point of contact with Campus and Health System Accounting partners.
• Supervise and lead finance staff (as applicable), include recruitment, onboarding, workload management, training, performance evaluations, coaching, and staff development.
• Provide training and guidance to departmental staff on financial business applications and procedures.
• Serve as a financial liaison to project oversight committees and cross-functional working groups.
• Support OCMO leadership in preparing project status updates and financial summaries.
• Coordinate financial information from design teams, end-user focus groups, and standing Health System committees.

Skills

Advanced financial analysis

Budgeting & forecasting

Executive reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field

Tools

Financial systems

Dashboard/BI tools

Job description

UC San Diego Health is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to provide senior-level financial oversight and strategic decision support for its complex, distributed clinical and academic portfolio.

Reporting to the OCMO Senior Director of Finance, you will lead financial management, develop budgets and forecasts, create executive dashboards, and ensure internal controls across a multi-site organization, influencing resource allocation and strategic priorities.