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Budget Analyst (#858)

Employer
Mount Holyoke College
Location
South Hadley, MA

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Budget Analyst (#858)Date Posted:06/04/2019Type/Department:Staff in Treasurer's OfficeSearch Status:Interviewing Candidates - not Accepting ApplicationsApply Now:We are not accepting applications for this position at this time.

Mount Holyoke College is seeking applications for the position of Budget Analyst. This is a part-time position designed to support the Budget Director in the Treasurer’s Office.

Major areas of responsibility include, but are not limited to: analyzing budgetary data, budgetary requests and interpreting and applying budget guidelines as well as developing and creating various adhoc reports.

Specific responsibilities:

  • Assist in the College's annual budget process. Compilation of budget submissions from across the campus to ensure all requests are presented for consideration.
  • Assist in the development of reports and presentations for communicating budget and other financial information to various audiences.
  • Serve as budget liaison to campus departments for financial and budgetary training and analytical needs.
  • Update Lawson system with final budget entry, budget transfers and maintenance of current year budget.
  • Recommend budget policy and develops guidelines.

Job Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • Three to five years of budget experience.
  • Proven experience with and broad knowledge of college policies and procedures, including budgeting principles, practices, and procedures to assist in budget development and analysis, and knowledge of accounting principles and practices as they apply to purchase orders, accounts payable, expense reimbursement, and transfers of funds.
  • Superb office and technological skills with a high level of proficiency in Google Apps, Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office suite is required, especially proficiency in Excel and ability to create complex spreadsheets and reports.
  • Experience reading and analyzing budget reports and financial statements.
  • Ability to work independently, prioritize work duties, and demonstrates effective time management skills; ability to multi-task and transition quickly between priorities to address specific situations, and to manage multiple, concurrent projects, and still meet strict deadlines.
  • Independently deal with sensitive information tactfully. Good judgment, experience working with confidential records and information, and attention to detail are essential.
  • Excellent organizational skills and techniques, and a proven track record of accuracy and efficiency.
  • Strong human relations and interpersonal skills to maintain effective, professional, and cooperative working relationships with supervisors and coworkers, and all internal and external customers including department chairs, faculty, and staff.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to communicate in a clear and courteous manner with a diverse internal and external customer base. Ability to provide quality customer service in a responsive and helpful manner.

Mount Holyoke College is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Mount Holyoke College is committed to enriching the educational experience it offers through the diversity of its faculty, administration, and staff members. Mount Holyoke seeks to recruit and support a broadly diverse team who will contribute to the college's excellence, diversity of viewpoints and experiences, and relevance in a global society. In furtherance of institutional excellence, the College encourages applications from individuals from underrepresented groups, including faculty, staff, and administration of color, diverse gender identities, first generation college students and individuals who have followed non-traditional pathways to college, and individuals with a demonstrated leadership commitment to including diverse backgrounds and perspectives.

Organization

Mount Holyoke College is a highly selective liberal arts institution with a long tradition of educating women for active engagement in the world. A diverse community of approximately 2000 students (13% international, 17% U.S. women of color), the College is committed to the creation of a powerful learning environment which seamlessly links the curricular and co-curricular dimensions of campus life in a way that affirms identity, builds community and prepares women for leadership in a pluralistic world.mount_holyoke_college1.jpg

Mount Holyoke is located in the beautiful Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts. The College, which has just completed the third year of an ambitious six-year strategic plan, is committed to educating a diverse community of women at the highest level of academic excellence and to fostering the alliance of liberal arts education with purposeful engagement in the world. Mount Holyoke is in a particularly strong position having received the highest numbers of applications in its history. Mount Holyoke is a member of the Five College Consortium (along with Amherst, Hampshire, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst).

mount_holyoke_college2.jpgAs the first of the Seven Sisters—the female equivalent of the once predominantly male Ivy League—Mount Holyoke established higher education for women as a serious endeavor. Our long, distinguished history of educating leaders arises from a powerful combination of:

  • academic excellence in a global learning environment
  • a tight-knit, diverse, and international community
  • a worldwide network of alumnae
  • the conviction that women can and should make a difference in the world.

Reputation
Mount Holyoke College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review Guide's 2010 edition of its annual guidebook, The Best 371 Colleges. Mount Holyoke rates highly in a number of categories, among them "best classroom experience" (#6), "best college library" (#12), and "dorms like palaces" (#13).

Students
Our 2,200 students hail from 48 states and nearly 70 countries. One in three students is an international citizen or African American, Asian American, Latina, Native American, or multiracial. Sixty-two percent of incoming first-year students were in the top 10 percent of their high school classes.

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Majors

  • 49 departmental and interdepartmental majors
  • Option to design your own major
  • 33 percent of all majors are interdisciplinary
  • Majors of current MHC students: humanities, 32 percent; social sciences, 42 percent; natural and applied sciences, 26 percent

Class Size

  • 15 percent of classes have 10 or fewer students
  • 64 percent have 20 or fewer
  • 82 percent have 25 or fewer

Student-to-Faculty Ratio
9 to 1

After College
Six months after graduation, 86 percent of the class of 2008 were working or in school. Of those students, 16 percent were attending graduate/professional schools of their choice. Typically, 75 percent of MHC graduates enroll in graduate/professional school within ten years.

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