Job Posting Title:
Senior Financial Analyst
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Hiring Department:
Facilities Services
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Position Open To:
All Applicants
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Weekly Scheduled Hours:
40
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FLSA Status:
Exempt
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Earliest Start Date:
Immediately
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Position Duration:
Expected to Continue
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Location:
AUSTIN, TX
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Job Details:
General Notes
A highly responsive and knowledgeable crew providing outstanding service for Facilities Services and to the university community.
Your skills will make a difference.
You’ll be working for a university that is internationally recognized for our academic programs and research. Your work will contribute to operational excellence and enhance the student experience. If you’re the type of person that wants to know your work has meaning and impact, you’ll like working in our department and for UT Austin. UT Austin provides an outstanding benefits package including but not limited to:
- Competitive health benefits (employee premiums covered at 100%, family premiums at 50%)
- Voluntary Vision, Dental, Life, and Disability insurance options
- Generous paid vacation, sick time, and holidays
- Teachers Retirement System of Texas, a defined benefit retirement plan, with employer matching funds
- Additional Voluntary Retirement Programs: Tax Sheltered Annuity 403(b) and a Deferred Compensation program 457(b)
- Flexible spending account options for medical and childcare expenses
- Robust free training access through LinkedIn Learning plus professional conference opportunities.
- Tuition assistance
- Expansive employee discount program including athletic tickets
- Free access to UT Austin’s libraries and museums with staff ID card
- Free rides on all UT shuttle and Austin CapMetro buses with staff ID card
- For more details, please see: https://hr.utexas.edu/prospective/benefits and https://hr.utexas.edu/current/services/my-total-rewards.
Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employee without sponsorship.
This position provides for work-life balance with typically a 40-hours work week.
Security sensitive; Criminal background check conducted on selected applicant. Hiring decision is contingent on applicant clearing check. This job class may contain positions that are security sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education Code §51.215. Applications will be reviewed online by the hiring department. This is a 40 hours per week work schedule, Monday-Friday, with a variable schedule between 8:00 am-8:00 pm, to be determined by the hiring manager. This position is eligible for remote work (FWA) with occasional in-person meetings required.
Purpose
To provide analysis of financial systems. Responsible for preparing cost analysis of financial studies to ensure the institution's assets are maximized. Analyzes fiscal accounting and financial systems.
Responsibilities
- Interpret accounting data as it relates to the budget and analyze trends. Advise management on available options and budgetary implications. Throughout the year, provide oversight for division budgets. Monitor operating account balances, expenditures, and encumbrances. Advise division management when balances are in deficit.
- Develops visualizations, models, presentations, correspondence, forms, and reports to communicate trends with Facilities Services leaders and staff. Develops self-service reporting tools to provide direct access to information. May develop or modify databases or applications to support the department and divisions. Provide data and/or data access to users of UTWorks (Asset Works AIM), DEFINE, Toad, Tableau, FileMaker Pro and other information sources.
- Provides primary identification, analysis, and reporting of performance and financial trends and statistics for the department and divisions utilizing Structured Query Language(SQL), Tableau, Toad, Access, VBA, Excel, COGNOS, FileMaker, SharePoint, and other data management and business intelligence tools.
- Assist in preparation of the annual budget and annual merit for divisions to establish and account for all operating funds and all full time employees.
- Assist with the completion and tracking of accounting transfers and manual billings.
- Prepare and analyze financial, personnel and work order information from various sources.
- Provide professional consistent, timely and reliable communication via e-mail or other mediums. Act as backup for co-workers when needed.
- Review and verify funding and position availability for personnel actions for divisions as part of the hiring process.
- Perform other related functions as assigned. May manage special projects.
Required Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, Management, or Business Administration. Six years of progressively responsible experience in finance or accounting with experience in planning, forecasting and financial analysis. Plans, initiates, and completes assignments with a minimum of direction. Demonstrated ability to work with attention to detail and ability to work under pressure of multiple deadlines. Demonstrated proficiency in gathering, analyzing, and presenting financial data using personal computer and related software including Microsoft products Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Advanced skills in Excel, including the creation of variable-driven models, pivots and macros. Demonstrated ability to work as a team member. Working knowledge of business intelligence tools such as Tableau or PowerBi with the ability to create visualizations.
Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
Preferred Qualifications
More than six years of required experience. Ability to write advanced, complex queries in SQL, and experience with enterprise facility management systems, such as FAMIS and UTWorks (Asset Works AIM), to create comprehensive and detailed financial reports. Experience manipulating complex spreadsheet data to analyze data trends and create management reports. Advanced skills in any of the following: Access, PowerPoint, Tableau, PowerBI,Visio, or MS Office. Working knowledge of Smartsheets. Experience with UT DEFINE or other large mainframe accounting systems. Excellent communication (oral and written), planning, problem solving, project management and customer service skills required. Ability to influence and build work relationship among a dynamic workforce at all levels required. Knowledge of University's budget process, accounting system, financial reports, and COGNOS Cubes & Author. Accuracy and attention to detail in all phases of work performed. Working knowledge of UT accounting and procurement policies and procedures. Ability and willingness to work with initiative.
Salary Range
$75,960 + depending on qualifications
Working Conditions
For Remote Workers:
- May work around standard office conditions
- Repetitive use of keyboard at a workstation
- Work will be performed remotely through remote connections
Environmental Demands:
- May work around standard office conditions
Physical Tasks:
- Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation
- Use of manual dexterity
Additional Working Conditions:
- Visa sponsorship NOT available. Please do not apply if you require Visa sponsorship.
- This position requires you to maintain internet service and a mobile phone with voice and data plans to be used as required for work.
Work Shift
- 40 Hour Work Week Schedule; Monday-Friday, with variable schedule between 08:00 AM – 08:00 PM, to be determined by the hiring manager.
- This position is eligible for remote work (FWA)
Required Materials
- Resume/CV
- 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
- Letter of interest
Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded. Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.
Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left-hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.
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Employment Eligibility:
Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.
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Retirement Plan Eligibility:
The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.
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Background Checks:
A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.
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Equal Opportunity Employer:
The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.
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Pay Transparency:
The University of Texas at Austin will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
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Employment Eligibility Verification:
If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form. You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States. Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment. Failure to do so will result in loss of employment at the university.
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E-Verify:
The University of Texas at Austin use E-Verify to check the work authorization of all new hires effective May 2015. The university’s company ID number for purposes of E-Verify is 854197. For more information about E-Verify, please see the following:
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Compliance:
Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). If this position is identified a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified and provided resources for reporting. Responsible employees under Title IX are defined and outlined in HOP-3031.
The Clery Act requires all prospective employees be notified of the availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety report. You may access the most recent report here or obtain a copy at University Compliance Services, 1616 Guadalupe Street, UTA 2.206, Austin, Texas 78701.
