University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department: Emergency Medicine

Job Title: Finance/Accounting and Compensation Analyst

Position 00834239 – Requisition #:36779

Job Summary:

The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is seeking applications for a Finance and Accounting Principal Professional. This full-time, University Staff (non-classified) position will be responsible for providing accounting and financial activities for the Department of Emergency Medicine. This includes providing advanced accounting, finance, compensation, and analytical support to the Department through complex financial analysis and modeling, trend analysis, financial reporting, and accounts payable and receivable activities. Additionally, the position will provide oversight to the on-going process improvement efforts associated with incentive plan compensation.

Key Responsibilities:

Incentive Plan Administration (50%):

This position is responsible for implementing and administering the Department’s four incentive plans, which includes data collection, calculation, and payment of incentive compensation on a quarterly basis.

• Leverages institutional databases and departmental systems to compile, validate, and analyze compensation data for accurate payment calculations.
• Conducts comprehensive audits to ensure data integrity and adherence to University policy.
• Designs and implements automated tools to streamline data extraction for incentive metrics, enhancing both accuracy and efficiency in departmental reporting.
• Maintains accurate, up-to-date documentation for all departmental incentive plans, supporting transparency and compliance with stakeholders.
• Assesses existing workflows and leads process improvement and automation efforts. Identifies and eliminates inefficiencies by optimizing the use of current systems and reducing manual processes.
• Other duties as assigned.

Payroll Administration (50%):

• Oversee and audit the daily operations of the payroll functions for the department; research, evaluate and ensure that payroll issues and discrepancies are resolved in a proper and timely manner; and manage entries into the HR/Payroll System.
• Manage complex payroll functions; calculate, review, verify and post a variety of complex payroll data such as gross pay, retirement, contract adjustments, retroactive payments, hours, and leave.
• Conducts monthly reconciliations to validate appropriate payroll allocation in alignment with departmental guidelines.
• Create and update payroll procedures with a continuous focus on identifying efficiency and process improvement
• Audits, updates, and maintains faculty funding distributions as well as identifies discrepancies and recommends solutions.
• Reconciles faculty clinical commitments to determine discrepancies and initiate appropriate corrections as needed.