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Higher Ed Administrative Careers - Business/Financial Management
Required Education:
4 Year Degree
Job Description:
Seattle Pacific University is a leading institution committed to excellence in education and fostering financial vitality. We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Financial Analyst to join our dynamic team. This role offers an opportunity to contribute to our mission-driven organization and support strategic decision-making through data analysis and financial expertise.
As a Financial Analyst, you will play a key role in maintaining accurate budget information, developing financial models, and providing analysis to support decision-making processes. You will collaborate closely with various departments and stakeholders to ensure financial goals are met and budgets are effectively managed.
Job duties include:
Budget Management
Maintain and review budget information, develop budget models, and assess adjustments for staffing and expenditures.
Financial Analysis
Develop ad hoc financial budgets, models, and analyses to support decision-making and risk management for new programs and activities.
Variance Analysis
Analyze and prepare variance analysis reports against budget/forecast using financial metrics.
Budget Preparation
Support processes to prepare the budget, load budgets, and reconcile results.
Multi-year Budget Planning
Assist in analyzing multi-year budget planning processes by analyzing financial and non-financial information.
Policy Management
Manage and maintain financial analysis and budgeting policies and procedures.
Standard Budgeting Assumptions
Assist in analyzing annual standard budgeting assumptions related to revenues, compensation, benefits, and capital spending.
Faculty Salary Process
Assist with the faculty salary process and monitor faculty salaries.
Fringe Benefit Allocation
Prepare and maintain fringe benefit allocation rates and insurance allocations.
Process Improvement
Identify and contribute to implementing improvements to policies, processes, tools, and systems.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or Accounting.
2-3 years of accounting or financial planning/budget experience.
Strong analytical skills and ability to work independently.
Strong oral and written communication abilities.
Proficiency in Advanced Excel, Access, and ability to work with ERP systems.
An understanding of mathematical formulas (statistical analysis) used in financial modeling is required.
Maturing and contagious Christian faith, knowledge of and the willingness to actively support the Christian mission of the University and accept the lifestyle standards of the Christian community.
Preferred Qualifications
Major coursework in data science or information technology.
Experience with ERP implementation and financial planning cloud-based software.
Knowledge of Tableau or Power BI is a plus.
Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) preferred.
Additional Information:
Position will remain open until filled.
Compensation: $29.81 - $31.25 per hour, DOE
This is a full time position with excellent benefits. SPU pays the employee premium for medical, dental, and vision insurance. SPU makes generous contributions to an employee HSA account and a 7% contribution to a retirement account, for eligible employees, with immediate vesting in the plan. Tuition discount program (50% - 90%) available for the employee and qualified immediate family members.
Application Instructions:
Please submit a cover letter and resume along with the online application.
Founded in 1891, Seattle Pacific University has a long and distinguished history in Christian higher education. Located just minutes from downtown Seattle, SPU seeks to be a premier Christian University fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community. Seattle Pacific University seeks applicants committed to its Christian mission.
Diversity Statement: As part of our mission of cultural engagement, SPU is committed to building an excellent and diverse staff and faculty. Diversity is an ethos that is inseparable from our Christian faith. At SPU, we recognize diversity as a basic feature of God's creation and a core theme of the gospel. At the heart of our mission-centered commitment to becoming a more diverse community is a desire to represent the breadth of God's kingdom more fully.
We strive to become a workplace of choice and to recruit, develop, and retain faculty and staff who can embrace, value, and engage differences with humility and care. We invite you to join us on our journey by starting a career at SPU! Learn more about SPU's commitment... to diversity and opportunities for our employees to deepen their capacity to serve our increasingly diverse student body.
Seattle Pacific University provides reasonable accommodation to applicants. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the application or hiring process please contact the Human Resources Department at (206)281-2809, or email hr@spu.edu. Notification must be given at least five (5) working days before the accommodation is needed.