Financial Analyst

The School of Medicine has 30 academic departments and a total annual budget of $850 million. 1,000+ students. and 2,500 full-time faculty. The Financial Analyst I supports the office’s financial operations by performing advanced accounting, reconciliation, and financial analysis functions in an academic health sciences environment. This role is responsible for ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting; conducting complex accounting analysis; and serving as a key financial resource to senior leadership across the University of Pittsburgh.

Prepares and analyzes routine financial statements and handles assigned projects' expenses; prepares routine financial reports. Assists with audit preparation analyses, forecasting future trends, and budgetary functions.

The Financial Analyst I will prepare routine financial analyses and reports; will distribute the monthly SOM Income Statements as well as accumulate schoolwide monthly financial actual to budget financial variance analyses; will assist in the investigate account variances as requested, or as routinely identified in normal course of work and provide adequate explanations for internal use as well as assisting with variance requests from the SVCHS or University CFO; will assist with ADHOC financial analyses as needed. Activity included but not limited to various routine School of Medicine (SOM) Responsibility Center (RC) level account analysis that includes routine financial activities between the SOM and UPP; will act as backup to the current Financial Analyst II with the preparation routine financial reports; will inquire and document variances in non-dean area departmental accounts (i.e., academic departments, centers, institutes); will determine recorded revenues and expenses are recorded as proper educational/research in nature and are not more appropriately recorded in the university reimbursable accounts; assist in processing routine monthly journal entries and will assist with the monthly "Standard Journal Entry" process.

Office setting, generally sedentary but occasionally may need to lift packages (weighing 25 lbs. or less).

The University of Pittsburgh is an equal opportunity employer / disability / veteran.