Financial Analyst

Job Posting Title:

Financial Analyst

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Hiring Department:

College of Liberal Arts

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Exempt

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Earliest Start Date:

Sep 01, 2025

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

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Location:

UT MAIN CAMPUS

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Job Details:

General Notes

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Purpose

This position will administer the financial operations for the African & African Diaspora Studies and its associated units to provide a high level of customer service to conduct day-to-day transactions for our faculty and staff.

Responsibilities

• Account Management & Reconciliation: Maintain and review account balances, balance forward analyses, funds transfers, transfers of payment due charges, transfer of funds, and transfer of expense charges. Faculty research tracking/oversight. Prepare and maintain project and/or faculty-specific micro budgets within each unit, including start-up and research allocations from units.  Produce regular reports of spending and balance remaining.  Work with faculty and staff to manage programming and activity budgets available and provide recommendations based on spending.  Manage funding sources committed from external units.  Weekly review and verification of account charges and monthly certification of account expenses.  Establish and share best practices for business processes for department.  
• Financial Management and Coordination: Provide general accounting and purchasing consultation and support to faculty and staff. Establish and coordinate best practices for business office. This includes facilitating open communication between adjoining business offices and College of Liberal Arts Dean’s office. Staff Management: Manage performance expectations and employee lifecycle of Senior Administrative Associate and Finance Team.
• Purchasing & Financial Disbursement Oversight: Process all faculty, staff, and student purchasing requests; Work with vendors to facilitate deliveries and to resolve delivery or invoicing issues; ProCard custodian (receipt collection and expense reconciliation).  Review and approval of ProCard vouchers, expense reimbursements, vendor payments, guest payments, faculty and staff.
• Annual Budget Preparation & Report Preparation: Prepare local, state, and soft budgets.  Monthly faculty and staff allocation expenditure reports (annual expenditure report, account allocations, local and gift accounts). Work and meet regularly with Department Manager to manage special projects.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration.  At least five years of related experience in increasingly complex financial processing or accounting.  Experience with generating complex financial reports and budgets.  Advanced proficiency in spreadsheet software.  Knowledge of basic accounting practic