Senior Financial Analyst - Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
About the Job
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required
- Minimum of 5 years’ relevant work experience
Additional Information
Job Specific Responsibilities continued:
General Financial Duties
- Reviews transactions for compliance and accuracy.
- Supports administration of capitalized projects.
- Respond to unit inquiries regarding spending, balances, and budget categories.
- Serve as a policy resource for assigned units, advises on transaction appropriateness, and makes recommendations about best mechanisms for all transactions.
- Provide training on financial models, financial systems, policies & procedures.
Month End Close
- Review business income statements with business managers and directors and research & explain unbudgeted expenses or other variances as requested.
- Prepare customer reports and attend customer meetings to review financials.
- Identify and follow through on journal vouchers and reclasses as identified through the monthly review process.
Operating & Capital Project Administration
- Ensure accurate accounting and coding for operating and capital project expenses.
- Assist business managers, project managers and others in updating operating and capital project information in capital planning database/
- Provide support for preparing and/or reviewing construction authorizations and sources of funding to open capital projects.
- Work with business managers to prepare justifications and document any financial analysis and/or P&L impact for operating & capital projects.
- Work with business managers, project managers, and accounting department to prepare close-out documentation when projects are completed and provide coding based on under/over funded amounts.
Other
- May serve as a mentor to others but does not have direct reports. May serve on committees and represents FP&A in University wide meetings or conduct trainings of a general nature for clients.
- Work with business managers on various special projects and analysis as necessary.
- Develop knowledge and skills in the use of new and existing business-specific and/or University systems that support transactions and/or reports necessary for accurate business accounting.
- Team with the Campus Services Controller’s department and/or other Harvard departments to improve business processes and systems.
- Assist in the documentation, implementation, and communication of accounting procedures in conjunction with improving existing procedures.
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Source : Harvard University