Financial Analyst - New York, United States - NYU Langone Health

NYU Langone Health

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New York, United States

1 week ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

NYU Grossman School of Medicine is one of the nation's top-ranked medical schools. For 175 years, NYU Grossman School of Medicine has trained thousands of physicians and scientists who have helped to shape the course of medical history and enrich the lives of countless people. An integral part of NYU Langone Health, the Grossman School of Medicine at its core is committed to improving the human condition through medical education, scientific research, and direct patient care. At NYU Langone Health, equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We embrace diversity, inclusion, and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge. _For more information, go to , and interact with us on _LinkedIn_, _Glassdoor_, _Indeed_,_ _Facebook_, _Twitter_ and _Instagram_._

Position Summary:

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Financial Analyst (Research Data Management team).

Responsibilities:

Setting up within 23 business days new awards and award modifications; post to appropriate ledgers grants costs budgets; perform analysis of PYCF and implement it in current budget year and validate default chartfields.
Activate contracts, create billing and revenue plans; establish prepaids and fixed events / milestones associated to contracts line; manage renewable services.
Setting up new sponsors; creating and updating customer contact information and link all the changes to billing plans in contract pages.
Update PeopleSoft related system tables as required; review the results of nightly processes; analyze and troubleshoot functional system problems within Grants Management modules. Assist in systemwide grant related process testing; assist management with reporting duties required for an assigned group of sponsored awards to include also closeout and perform other duties as assigned.
Analyze and update the system with all milestones for reporting purposes for federal and nonfederal grants and contracts. Analyze and populate the milestones for billing for all subgrants, subcontracts and contracts that have billing as mechanism of reimbursement for costs incurred
Assist management with reporting duties required for an assigned group of sponsored awards to include also closeout and perform other duties as assigned.
Maintain the Research Data Management workflow with Sponsored Programs Administration, Research Finance Staff, Department and other financial community. Maintain an accurate log, distribute the work according to approved workflow, follow up on requests and provide frequent reports to upper management.

Planning, Organizing and Collaborating

Performs within plan, established priorities and across multiple functional areas.
Deliverables are accurate and timely.
Exercises initiative and sound judgment in performance. Escalates issues appropriately.
Utilizes time efficiently.
Contributes meaningfully to developing solutions and independently completes assigned work in a timely manner.

Monitoring, Quality Control, Reporting and Record Keeping

Assists Manager in maintaining exception reporting, performs routine quality control.
Attention to detail when reviewing large amounts of financial data.
Identifies areas of improvement for current processes and provides recommendations.

Quality Control (Improving Business Processes)

Follows all SOPs and Job Aids in performing their day to data responsibilities.
Exceptions are managed and resolved. Root cause analyses are preformed when appropriate.
Practices Continuous Improvement.

Communications

Ability to communicate effectively with staff, peers, senior management and faculty.
Positively represents the Institution when dealing with internal and external stakeholders.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

Understands and adheres to the principles of Research Administration and Compliance
Follows NYU Policies and procedures
Exercises good judgment and effectively prioritizes work
Understands and employs Accounting Principles
Accountable, Collegial and Ethical
Leads and motivates others
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Minimum Qualifications:

To qualify you must have a Bachelors degree and 1-3 years relevant work experience or an equivalent combination.
Superior communication skills, both written and verbal.
Possess strong customer service and problem solving skill sets.

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in business, finance or other appropriate discipline with at least 2-3 years of relevant financial and grants management experience, or a combination of comparable education and experience.

Experience with Enterprise Systems, basic Excel knowledge, PeopleSoft Financials or Oracle

NYU Grossman School of Medicine provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you'll feel good