Full-Time
Senior Financial Analyst
Rollins School of Public Health
Deadline 3/4/27
Emory University
No salary listed
Atlanta, GA, USA
In Person
Remote work-from-home days may be granted at department discretion.
Category
 Finance & Banking (1) |
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Required Skills
Financial analysis
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, business administration, finance or a related field and four years of financial analyst or accounting experience, OR equivalent combination of experience, education, and training.
Responsibilities
- Coordinates major financial reporting and budgeting activities.
- Ensures compliance with regulations and reporting requirements.
- Coordinates the correction of account balances, resolves funding issues and maintains proper accounting controls and procedures.
- Makes recommendations to management related to long-range financial and cash flow analyses.
- Prepares and analyzes statistical and financial reports, financial statements and supporting schedules.
- May assist in preparing, developing and monitoring department/organizational budgets.
- May maintain grant agreements, policies and guidelines; coordinate grant reporting requirements; review grant funding source compliance; and negotiate grant funding with awarding agencies.
- May perform indirect cost analysis.
- May hire, train, and supervise a small staff.
- Performs related responsibilities as required.
Desired Qualifications
- Advanced degree or professional certification not specified in the posting.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including complex formulas, pivot tables, data modeling, and reconciliation tools.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze large datasets, identify discrepancies, and produce audit-ready financial reports.
- Experience improving financial processes through automation, standardized templates, and thoughtful use of technology.
- Working knowledge of enterprise financial and HR systems common to academic medical centers.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in fast-paced, evolving environments.
- High level of attention to detail, accuracy, and professional judgment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Knowledge of Power Query and data transformation, dynamic financial models, scenario analysis, and reconciliation and audit-ready workbooks.
- Ability to design scalable, well-structured spreadsheets that support repeatable monthly, quarterly, and annual processes.
- Strong documentation and version-control practices within financial models.
- Demonstrated ability to work across multiple financial and HR systems, identify data gaps, and reconcile discrepancies.
- Experience extracting, validating, and normalizing large datasets for analysis and reporting.
- Strong systems-thinking mindset — able to understand upstream and downstream impacts of financial data flows.
- Curiosity or experience using AI-enabled tools.
- Improve efficiency in data validation, reconciliation, and reporting.
- Support model development and scenario testing.
- Ability to reduce manual, repetitive processing while maintaining data integrity.
- Strong judgment regarding appropriate and compliant use of AI.
- Demonstrated experience identifying opportunities to streamline financial workflows, reduce manual effort, improve accuracy and turnaround time.
- Ability to design templates, trackers, and dashboards that enhance transparency and decision-making.
- Comfort operating in environments where systems and processes are evolving or imperfect.
- Exceptional attention to detail paired with the ability to analyze trends and anomalies.
- Strong reconciliation discipline with clear documentation of assumptions and adjustments.
- Ability to independently validate results before escalation or reporting.