Financial Analyst

at  Columbia University

• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: 62,400-78,600
  The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.
  Position Summary
  The Financial Analyst is responsible for clinical practice payroll accounting and reports to the Manager of Budget and Finance.

Responsibilities

• Assist with preparation of annual salary budgets for multiple clinical departments. Maintain salary current estimates, updating for new hires, terminations, and off-cycle compensation changes throughout the year
• Perform cost transfers, salary distributions and add-comp distributions, both routine and off-cycle, for on-going reallocation of salary expense to applicable funding sources.
• Collaborate with multiple HR departments for faculty and staff hires, promotions, terminations and salary changes; provide financial information needed for HR processes.
• Prepare and enter monthly, quarterly and annual on-call, incentive and bonus payments for faculty and staff.
• Prepare tracking sheet, upload backup support documentation on payroll SharePoint, and enter faculty discretionary payments in PAC for the VP&S payroll approval process.
• Prepare supporting documents and enter in PAC transactions for Post-Doc Incidentals payments for residents.
• Monitor salary expense to ensure accurate payroll. Prepare monthly budget vs. annual analysis to evaluate overages.
• Assist with preparation of divisional rosters for review by CFO and division chiefs. Assist with preparation of formal roster, incorporating clinical finance comp-plan data for the practice component of roster for annual submission to CUIMC HR.
• Prepare ad hoc reports often requiring preparation on short notice with limited information.
• Collaborates with multiple levels of organization for problem resolution and ongoing routine issues.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in education and experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Accounting credits/experience a plus.
• Preferred advanced degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration.

Other Requirements

• Must have strong analytical abilities.
• Must be able to manage and analyze large and complex data sets with a high degree of accuracy.
• Must be able to manage a high-volume workload.
• Must have strong organizational skills and capable of working independently as well as collaboratively.
• Must be detail oriented and be able to handle competing priorities.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills required, excellent customer service.
• Intermediate to advanced level MS Office skills, PeopleSoft, and Adobe

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran
Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents

• Assist with preparation of annual salary budgets for multiple clinical departments. Maintain salary current estimates, updating for new hires, terminations, and off-cycle compensation changes throughout the year
• Perform cost transfers, salary distributions and add-comp distributions, both routine and off-cycle, for on-going reallocation of salary expense to applicable funding sources.
• Collaborate with multiple HR departments for faculty and staff hires, promotions, terminations and salary changes; provide financial information needed for HR processes.
• Prepare and enter monthly, quarterly and annual on-call, incentive and bonus payments for faculty and staff.
• Prepare tracking sheet, upload backup support documentation on payroll SharePoint, and enter faculty discretionary payments in PAC for the VP&S payroll approval process.
• Prepare supporting documents and enter in PAC transactions for Post-Doc Incidentals payments for residents.
• Monitor salary expense to ensure accurate payroll. Prepare monthly budget vs. annual analysis to evaluate overages.
• Assist with preparation of divisional rosters for review by CFO and division chiefs. Assist with preparation of formal roster, incorporating clinical finance comp-plan data for the practice component of roster for annual submission to CUIMC HR.
• Prepare ad hoc reports often requiring preparation on short notice with limited information.
• Collaborates with multiple levels of organization for problem resolution and ongoing routine issues.
• Other related duties as assigned