Senior Financial Analyst
- Employer
- University of Maryland Baltimore
- Location
- Baltimore, MD
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- Administrative Jobs
- Institutional & Business Affairs, Business & Financial Management
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), Office of Sponsored Projects Accounting and Compliance (SPAC) is currently recruiting for a Senior Sponsored Projects Accounting Financial Analyst.
UMB offers a generous benefits package, which includes 22 vacation days, 14 floating and holidays, 15 sick days; comprehensive health insurance and retirement options; and tuition remission for employees and their dependents at any of the University System of Maryland schools.
The ideal candidate will personally connect with the Administration and Finance Guiding Principles which closely mirror UMB’s core values: Accountability, Civility, Collaboration, Diversity, Excellence, Knowledge, Leadership, Communication, & Work/Life Balance.
Primary Duties:
- Engage in testing that will provide regular updates of the grants portion of the financial software
- Responsible to identify and communicate issues relating to software that impact regular operations.
- Create metrics for quality assurance monitoring to evaluate ongoing SPAC projects and controls for current and future planning.
- In coordination with the Director identify and documentation of areas for Quantum process improvements and quality assurance.
- Performs, reviews and analyzes sponsored projects accounting and compliance ensuring completeness, internal accuracy, and conformance with uniform general acceptable accounting practices (GAAP).
- Maintains performance compliance with University policies and procedures regarding internal, business, fiscal, and operational accountability and compliance.
- Review accounting entries for compliance with applicable grant and contract terms, regulations, and policies and procedures and conformance with uniform general acceptable accounting practices (GAAP).
- Identifies and investigates compliance deficiencies.
- Conduct budget, financial, and/or fiscal reviews and make recommendations.
- Review financial data for accuracy and clarity
- Collaborate with management and internal/external partners to support University goals and objectives.
- Administers and maintains assigned accounts to verify accuracy of transactions and uniform application of policies, procedures, and acceptable standards.
- Examine and ensure integrity/reliability of the financial accounting system.
- Work with principal investigators, faculty, or staff members to identify potential ledger discrepancies between financial system and SPAC records, providing statistical information to isolate these areas and recommending new procedures to prevent deviations or undesirable accounting trends.
- Understand contract, grant and cooperative agreement terms and conditions, as well as other administrative rules, cost principles and regulations under OMB' Uniform Guidance, the FAR and the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
- Receives, analyzes, and prepares various internal/external financial ledgers, schedules, exhibits and summaries along with any assigned databases utilized for financial reporting.
- Evaluate financial scope and objectives. Perform testing to accomplish reviews and special projects.
- Assisting campus SPACs to correct identified deficiencies as needed.
- Adhere to unit and project activities under prescribed schedule.
- Utilized quantitative and qualitative approaches to develop financial forecast performance.
- Conduct budget, financial, and fiscal reviews.
- Assists in coordination of responses to internal or external agencies, including site visits, desk reviews, and audits. Support management with special projects and workflow process improvements.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelors in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration.
Experience: Three (3) years of financial or management accounting, budget, auditing, assessment of internal controls, financial analysis, or two (2) years of direct sponsored projects accounting, or post-award accounting or lifecycle research administration experience. Higher education environment experience is preferred.
Supervisory Experience: N/A
Certification/Licensure: N/A
Other: N/A
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
Knowledge of position requirements. Knowledge of all applicable requirements, regulations, and laws. Skill in effective use of applicable technology/systems. Ability to effectively communicate both verbal and written thoughts, ideas, and facts. Ability to work cooperatively with others and independently.
Hiring Range: Commensurate with education and experience
If accommodations are needed for a disability, please contact Staffing & Career Services at 410-706-2606, Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 4:30pm EST. Maryland Relay can be accessed by dialing 711 (in-state) or 1-800-735-2258.
UMB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law or policy.
Job: Reg or CII Exempt Staff
Shift: Day Job
Organization: Sponsored Projects Accounting and Compliance
Job Posting: Feb 15, 2021
Unposting Date: Feb 22, 2021, 11:59:00 PM
Organization
Welcome to the Baltimore campus of the University of Maryland, founded in 1807 along a ridge in what was then called Baltimore Town. Today, this 61-acre research and technology complex encompasses 65 buildings in West Baltimore near the Inner Harbor. 
The University is Maryland's only public academic health, human services, and law center. Seven professional and graduate schools train the majority of the state's physicians, nurses, dentists, lawyers, social workers, and pharmacists.
Under the leadership of President Jay A. Perman, MD, the University is a leading partner in the redevelopment of the west side of Baltimore. The University of Maryland BioPark, which opened in October 2005, promotes collaborative research opportunities and bioscience innovation.
Sponsored research totaled $567.1 million in Fiscal Year 2010. With 6,349 students and 6,717 faculty members and staff, the University is an economic engine that returns more than $15 in economic activity for every $1 of state general funds appropriation. The University community gives more than 2 million hours a year in service to the public.
Mission
The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is the State¹s public health, law and human services university devoted to excellence in professional and graduate education, research, patient care, and public service. As a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff and students, and using state-of-the-art technological support, we educate leaders in health care delivery, biomedical science, global health, social work and the law. We emphasize interdisciplinary education and research in an atmosphere that explicitly values civility, diversity, collaboration, teamwork and accountability. By conducting internationally recognized research to cure disease and to improve the health, social functioning and just treatment of the people we serve, we foster economic development in the City, State, and nation. We are committed to ensuring that the knowledge we generate provides maximum benefit to society and directly enhances our various communities.
Campus Data
Go to the Office of Institutional Research and Accountability for complete campus facts.
Equal Opportunity
The University of Maryland is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and educational institution and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, marital status or veteran's status to recruit, hire, compensate, train and promote employees and applicants for employment in all job levels with regard to their qualifications and without consideration to the aforementioned categories. Exceptions to this policy will be made only as allowed by law for example, due to bona fide occupational qualifications or lack of reasonable accommodations for disabilities.
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