Strategic Grants & Research Finance Analyst

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PPO medical plan

Paid Time Off

Retirement Programs through TRS

Paid Parental Leave Benefit

Wellness programs

Tuition Reimbursement

Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)

Job summary

UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas seeks a detail-oriented finance professional to support financial management of grant-funded and departmental projects. You will partner with research and administrative leadership to develop funding strategies and ensure long-term financial sustainability of the center's research mission.

The role handles diverse funding sources, prepares monthly financial reports, monitors budgets, and analyzes expenditures against the general ledger.

Qualifications

• Education requirement: Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field.
• Experience: 4 years in finance and/or accounting with planning, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Completes variety of complex monthly financial management reports and reviews all reports for errors and inconsistencies; analyzes variations in forecasts and actual performance; determines reasons for variance; develops recommendations for improvement; completes written summaries of financial data.
• Prepares and/or supervises preparation of monthly financial reports, schedules for annual financial reports, and reports to various government agencies, ensuring conformance of such reports with applicable procedures and regulations of University of Texas System and Federal and State agencies.
• Identifies areas of poor performance, presents findings, and makes recommendations to upper management.
• Prepares financial models and conducts financial analyses.
• May maintain controls for policies and procedures for financial system; develops and maintains delegation of authority of various procedures, such as check requests, refunds, invoice approval, bad debt write-offs, etc.
• Completes more complex special projects as requested.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial reporting

Education

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

Tools

Microsoft Excel

ERP systems

Job description

UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas seeks a detail-oriented finance professional to support financial management of grant-funded and departmental projects. You will partner with research and administrative leadership to develop funding strategies and ensure long-term financial sustainability of the center's research mission.

The role handles diverse funding sources, prepares monthly financial reports, monitors budgets, and analyzes expenditures against the general ledger.