Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst role supporting financial analysis, reporting, and performance monitoring across NYU Langone Health department missions.

Responsibilities

• Monitor departmental budgets on a monthly basis; verify accuracy and perform variance and trend analysis (actual vs. budget, and actual vs. prior periods); communicate results to departmental and finance leadership.
• Build reporting packages and financial templates with detailed analysis based on leadership requirements.
• Prepare forecasts to compare year-to-date activity to full-year budgets.
• Support faculty and other senior leadership in operational and strategic planning using relevant financial data.
• Monitor personnel allocations across accounts and direct staff as needed to process required changes.
• Review and investigate departmental financial transactions and journal entries with familiarity of general accounting standards.
• Support compliant use of funding sources including philanthropy; recommend and implement changes to maintain balanced accounts and address funding overages when needed.
• Assist with development of short- and long-term annual departmental budgets, including historical analysis and future projections.
• Provide ad-hoc financial analysis for special projects and other assigned duties.
• Use BvAs and other financial reports to update PI portfolios monthly, including all active grants and start-up accounts; flag inappropriate expenditures.
• Conduct monthly meetings with each PI to review every portfolio account.
• Update projections to reflect changes to staffing, OTPS, and related items such as staff timelines, layoffs and severance, and human subject review when applicable.
• Draft action items following PI portfolio reviews and handle next steps.
• Prepare project budgets for newly awarded grants, new budget periods, and subcontract arrangements.
• Maintain a detailed tracker of subaward invoices; follow up with subawardees to support timely invoicing.
• Coordinate with the NYU contracting team to help ensure timely issuance of subcontract agreements.
• Maintain a time and effort calculator showing current and projected PI effort by month and project for annual AEC.
• Monitor effort percent transitions and support notifications to sponsors as required.
• Create closeout / no-cost-extension packages.
• Close out open Purchase Orders and end recurring payments.
• Review quarterly payroll verification reports for grants; confirm accuracy, email each PI for approval, and submit final approvals to Research Finance Operations.
• Review MSS transactions shifting faculty/staff effort onto and off of grants for accuracy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, or another appropriate discipline.
• At least 2 years of relevant financial experience (2-3 years preferred within the stated requirement range) or a combination of comparable education and experience.
• Understanding of accounting, budgeting, and financial reporting.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to work with a diverse group of faculty and staff; interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to multi-task, learn quickly, adapt, and manage multiple deliverables on tight timelines.
• Comfort applying accounting principles.
• Demonstrated problem solver and self-starter; ability to work well with others.

Technologies

• Microsoft Office
• Excel
• PeopleSoft
• Oracle
• BvAs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise systems.
• PeopleSoft or Oracle experience preferred.

Compensation & Location

• Salary range: USD 70,481 - 85,000 per year
• Location: New York, NY (onsite)