Sr. Financial Analyst

We are seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst who manages and processes financial transactions involving clinical, joint agreement funds, general funds, federal and/or private grants and contracts, and gift and discretionary accounts for the Department of Medicine’s Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine and Division of Clinical Immunology. Leads the development of the annual divisional budgets / assisting with variance reporting. Responsible for overseeing established budgets by overseeing the loading of budgets, reconciling budget information and changes, and extracting and analyzing financial data to manage the financials of the division. Generates monthly financial reports and monitors revenues and expenditures for various business lines, including, but not limited to clinical funds, designated and discretionary funds, affiliated institution funds, and general funds against the divisional budget.

Performs comprehensive financial analysis relating to business or research trends to improve divisional financial effectiveness and complies with JHU, JHH, and/or agency regulations and restrictions. This position reports to the Division’s Associate Administrator (a.k.a, division administrator).

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Financial Management

• Interpret and analyze departmental financial reports (GAAP reports, etc.), and identify over expenditures, and communicate information to DOM and Division leadership.
• Maintain a broad understanding of the financial positions/conditions of the various divisions throughout the Division.
• Monitors and approves departmental expenditures, as assigned, throughout the fiscal year (and with respect to processing deadlines), with both authority and confidence to filter appropriate expenses. This includes SAP, Concur, PCARD, and Petty Cash.
• As necessary, ensure monthly financial transactions are processed and posted. Includes, but is not limited to, KB 15N's, journal entries, and cost transfers for both JHU and JHBMC/JHH (as applicable).
• Be knowledgeable in processing travel reimbursements, online payments, payroll/non-payroll cost transfers, check deposits, and gift donations (as appropriate).
• Regularly meets with and serves as a go-to finance resource for divisional staff.
• Processes check deposits and gift donations.
• Prepares and processes payroll documents needed to reduce control salary within designated areas assigned.
• Completes monthly reconciliations on designated areas within the Division, including malpractice reconciliations.
• Monitors and processes transactions to correct Divisional default accounts..
• Prepares and processes online check requests, travel reimbursements, employee reimbursements, and purchase orders.

Training Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and onboard/train new and current financial positions within the DOM under the guidance of Financial Project Manager leadership.
• Creating content involving SAP, MedVitals, Excel, Concur, PCARD, Petty Cash, and other identified non-sponsored financial needs.

Coverage Role

• Short-term deployment to divisions with vacancies to assist and training replacements.
• Requires overall financial knowledge and patterns, with the ability to learn divisional-specific context.
• Ability to take on short-term financial roles that may involve approving financial transactions.

• Financial Analysis Responsibilities
• Leads variance reporting in SAP, MedVitals, and Excel to identify changes in charges, faculty gaps, affiliated revenue, and all other financial KPIs in the division.
• Will be the subject matter expert in finance for SAP and serve as the divisional liaison.
• Assimilates information from various sources to draw conclusions, to effect change in processes, procedures, and reporting, and/or theorize downstream impacts.
• Defines problems, collects data, establishes facts, and draws conclusions with direction(as necessary from others). Must be able to independently interpret technical and detailed guidelines,
• policies and procedures, as well as explain or describe moderately complex information and presentation materials.
• Plan and conduct complex studies to determine the cost of business for departmental clinical programs. Analyze results and recommend necessary budget adjustments, and cost-effective measures to the appropriate and applicable members of the DOM administration team and/or division management.
• Analyze complex financial data and extract and define relevant information using the various accounting systems and communicate necessary information to applicable members of the DOM administration team and/or division management.
• Interpret data to determine fiscal year performance