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Financial Analyst 3, Auxiliary Services

Job ID:
Location: Main Campus - UCR
Schedule: 8AM - 5PM
Category: Accounting and Finance
Salary: $73,600 - $133,200
Full/Part Time: Full-time(100%)
Organization: Auxiliary Services
Department: Chris Dacanay
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled

Position Information:
UC Riverside's Auxiliary Services is recruiting for a Financial Analyst 3. The full salary range for the Financial Analyst 3 is $73,600 - $133,200 annually. However, the expected pay scale for this position is up to $103,400 annually. We base salary offers on a variety of considerations, such as education, licensure and certifications, experience, and other business and organizational needs.

Under the general supervision of the Manager of the Fiscal Unit in Finance & Business Operations of Auxiliary Services, the incumbent develops and refines processes for fiscal management, and provides strategic support to leadership, contributing to operational efficiency and long-term financial health across Auxiliary Services. The Financial Analyst 3 is responsible for conducting complex financial analyses, providing fiscal, budgetary, analytical, and administrative support, and performing a variety of tasks to ensure the financial integrity of the ledgers for complex budgets. This position functions as a member of the Finance & Business Operations Team and will perform financial operations and fiscal analysis duties in support of all Auxiliary Services departments. Performs financial reporting and reviewing; analyzes and summarizes reports; ledger reconciliation and verifies the accuracy and appropriateness of all financial transactions; determines and locates sources to independently collect information and data; prepares directives, policies, and procedures; and evaluates and makes final recommendations for alternate solutions.

Applicants must have current work authorization when accepting a UCR staff position. Currently, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa for staff.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

Requirements:
Requirements

Educational Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training.
  • Required
  • Advanced degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related field.
  • Preferred

    Experience Requirements
  • 4 - 7 years of related experience.
  • Required
  • Experience working for the University of California or comparable institution of higher education or similarenvironment, performing high-level analysis and working with budget and financial models.
  • Preferred

    Special Conditions
    Special
  • Hired candidate must successfully pass a background check.
  • Required
  • As business necessitates, may be required to work flexible schedule and/or additional hours as necessary.
  • Required
  • Travel may include: occasional local travel for university related business, professional development, conferencesand meetings.
  • Required

    Minimum Requirements
  • Thorough knowledge of finance policies, practices and systems.
  • Has ability to independently gather required information, organize, and perform financial analysis assignments.
  • Ability to present information in a clear and concise manner both in writing and verbally.
  • Proven ability to use spreadsheet and database software for complex financial analysis, fiscal management and financial reports.
  • Proven interpersonal skills with peers throughout the organization; service orientation; critical thinking; attention to detail; ability to multi-task in a high volume environment, organizational skills.
  • Ability to adapt to changing priorities.
  • Ability to function as a member of a team.
  • Ability to independently research questions or operational issues and generate solutions and recommendations to resolve issues.
  • Ability to independently gather required information through the use of query tools to extract data from internal/external systems and the ability to organize, analyze, validate and prepare consolidated financial/budgetary reports.
  • Demonstrated recent and progressive knowledge and/or experience in financial analysis and reporting; preparing comprehensive financial reports for use by upper management; preparing periodic budget reports, conducting variance and other financial analyses; researching exceptional transactions and situations and related internal controls.
  • Ability to present financial information to various audiences.

    Preferred Qualifications
  • Thorough knowledge and understanding of internal control practices and their impact on protecting University resources.
  • Working knowledge of University administrative policies and procedures and organizational structures.
  • Transportation Services and Childhood Education / K-12 industry knowledge.

    Additional Information:
    Additional Information In the Heart of Inland Southern California, UC Riverside is located on nearly 1,200 acres near Box Springs Mountain in Southern California; the park-like campus provides convenient access to the vibrant and growing Inland region. The campus is a living laboratory for the exploration of issues critical to growing communities' air, water, energy, transportation, politics, the arts, history, and culture. UCR gives every student, faculty and staff member the resources to explore, engage, imagine and excel.

    UC Riverside is recognized as one of the most ethnically diverse research universities in the country boasting several key rankings of which we are extremely proud.
    • UC Riverside is proud to be ranked No. 12 among all U.S. universities, according to Money Magazine's 2020 rankings, and among the top 1 percent of universities worldwide, according to the 2019-20 Center for World University rankings.

    • UC Riverside is the top university in the United States for social mobility. - U.S. News 2020

    • UCR is a member of the University Innovation Alliance, the leading national coalition of public research universities committed to improving student success for low-income, first-generation, and students of color.

    • Among top-tier universities, UC Riverside ranks No. 2 in financial aid. - Business Insider 2019

    • Ranked No. 2 in the world for research, UCR's Department of Entomology maintains one of the largest collections of insect specimens the nation. - Center for World University Rankings

    • UCR's distinguished faculty boasts 2 Nobel Laureates, and 13 members of the National Academies of Science and Medicine.
    The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

    For information about our generous employee benefits package, visit: Employee Benefits Overview

    Job Description Details:
    Job Description Details

    General Information
    Job Title
    FINANCIAL ANL 3 Job Code
    007709 Grade
    22 Department Head
    Chris Dacanay Supervisor
    Chris Dacanay

    Generic Scope
    Experienced professional who knows how to apply theory and put it into practice with in-depth understanding of the professional field; independently performs the full range of responsibilities within the function; possesses broad job knowledge; analyzes problems/issues of diverse scope and determines solutions.

    Custom Scope
    Uses skills as a seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of industry practices and organizational policies and procedures; resolves a wide range of issues in imaginative as well as practical ways. Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Contacts are both internal and external to the department.

    Department Custom Scope
    Under the general supervision of the Manager of the Fiscal Unit in Finance & Business Operations of Auxiliary Services, the incumbent develops and refines processes for fiscal management, and provides strategic support to leadership, contributing to operational efficiency and long-term financial health across Auxiliary Services. The Financial Analyst 3 is responsible for conducting complex financial analyses, providing fiscal, budgetary, analytical, and administrative support, and performing a variety of tasks to ensure the financial integrity of the ledgers for complex budgets. This position functions as a member of the Finance & Business Operations Team and will perform financial operations and fiscal analysis duties in support of all Auxiliary Services departments. Performs financial reporting and reviewing; analyzes and summarizes reports; ledger reconciliation and verifies the accuracy and appropriateness of all financial transactions; determines and locates sources to independently collect information and data; prepares directives, policies, and procedures; and evaluates and makes final recommendations for alternate solutions.

    Key Responsibilities:
    Key Responsibilities DescriptionPercent Time
  • Provides analytical support for complex budget, financial, or resource analysis projects.
    • Applies advanced professional concepts to perform complex technical analysis to understand past performance and determine present and future performance and/or resource allocations. Exceptional organizational skills as there are many daily, weekly, monthly, etc. reports that need to be created, analyzed and distributed, checks that need to be requested, etc. Responsible for providing analytical support for highly complex budget budget, financial, and resource projects dealing directly with major department managers and/or outside constituents. Participation and preparation for the annual budget process reflecting past financial performance, future projections, and long range planning. Developing KPI's and Dashboards to highlight high level performance trends. Projects include staffing analysis, position control, organizational chart maintenance to support FTE growth.
  • 20%
  • Gathers information, analyzes, prepares and summarizes recommendations for financial and/or resource plans, including annual resource allocation approaches, trended future requirements, operating forecasts, sources and uses, etc. Examples include generating, modifying, and conceiving of new financial or other resource reports, or analyzing and forecasting staff/faculty salary budgets, contracts, grants, gifts, endowments, or user fees.
    • Making recommendations for maximizing financial or other resource outcomes. Providing recommendations for various departments along with quantifiable data to support these alternative methods. Modifying financial reports to improve the automation process across several departments. Forecasting short and long term revenue and cost based on realistic expectations and gathering historical data for support.
  • 15%
  • Applies professional concepts to perform moderate to complex analysis to understand past performance and determine present and future performance and/or resource allocations.
    • Provide in depth variance analysis and makes recommendations for leadership teams to help grow financial performance while exploring alternative methodologies for financial analysis.
  • 10%
  • Provides department support in the areas of business process analysis and design, system or procedure testing and implementation, documentation, security, workflow, and customer feedback.
    • Performs complex financial or research and studies for both internal department and external constituents. Examples include periodic financial reports, staff salary budgets, contracts, grants, gifts, endowments, or user fees. Financial and/or resource analysis could include budgetary analysis, financial analysis, forecast, projections, staff salary or FTE analysis, student enrollment analysis, recharge or general rate analysis (meal plans, parking rates, copier rates, capital project rates) contracts and grants analysis, endowment income, working capital, depreciation, new building funds, etc.
  • 10%
  • Coordinates and implements department budget allocations, conceives of and maintains department chart of accounts or other data management tools, and related business processes.
  • 10%
  • Independently gathers information as needed to perform analysis.
    • Providing team support to other financial analyst sharing new methodologies and concepts for improved automation of the financial models being used. Working closely with other departments to gather information needed for analysis and provide financial analysis support to other departments.
  • 10%
  • Performs complex financial or resource research and studies for a variety of internal department constituents.
    • Some examples include comparative financial analysis along with different scenarios projecting the financial outcome thus providing alternatives to leadership teams.
  • 5%
  • Prepares reviews and/or approves financial transactions.
    • Ensure that the financial transactions are correct, and prepare NCT's (Non salary cost transfers) or SCT's (Salary cost transfers) as needed to make any necessary corrections. Provide guidance to transactors to help improve the accuracy of these transactions going forward.
  • 5%
  • May train staff and where appropriate, creates an effective team environment.
  • 5%
  • Documents procedures for financial activities.
    • Develops best business practices and SOP's for various financial transactions and processes. Tracks changes in financial reports so that they be be referenced later if needed.
  • 5%
  • Ensures that the appropriate internal controls are addressed, maintained and strengthened to protect University resources.
  • 5%

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