We are seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst, Central School who will manage the budgetary needs of a portfolio of administrative SOM units and uses data to drive analyses that inform decisions around financial goals, objectives and performance. This role meets regularly with key stakeholders to ensure two-way communication for advocacy, knowledge transfer, and a shared understanding of financial activities.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Coordinates

• Meets regularly with Administrative SOM units to ensure two-way communication to create advocacy for units, knowledge transfer, and a shared understanding of financial activities.
• Supports the budgetary needs of administrative units through complex analysis work that uses data to inform financial decisions.

Applies

• Obtains knowledge on the units and their financial activities through regular meetings and communications to determine how to advocate for units during conversations with JHM and JHU.

Creates/Prepares/Develops

• Assists in the preparation of budgets, variance analyses, and related analyses for administrative units, regularly synthesizing large amounts of data to reach results and formulate recommended actions.

Analyzes/Interprets

• Analyzes the financial activities of the units to assist in budget preparation and associated analyses.
• Provides recommendations to critical financial business decisions. Extracts financial data from various accounting and information systems to perform related reviews.

Manages

• Manages the portfolio of administrative SOM units and the completeness and accuracy of their financial activities, specifically budget.

Problem Solving

• Advocates for Administrative Units to ensure they are receiving funding for their activities and can hire staff.

Thinking Critically

• Monitors financial metrics performance, develops models and reports, and ensures two-way communications with administrative units to determine their financial performance and if a corrective action plan is warranted.

Trains/Communicates

• Ensures administrative units have the necessary information, skills, and support to perform their financial activities.

Collaborates

• Partner with Director, Dean's Office, Other FP&A analysts; Administrative Units staff; JHM/JHU Budget, Central Finance, JHM/JHHS/JHU Finance.

• Advanced knowledge in the use of the Microsoft Office suite of applications.
• Experience with other data reporting tools.
• Strong customer service orientation and focus on details, accuracy and meeting pre-determined deadlines.
• Understanding of and commitment to the mission.

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or a related field.
  

• Five years of progressively responsible financial and business operations experience, preferably in a large and complex organization.
  

• Advanced Excel skills, with demonstrated knowledge of Pivot tables, formulas and other functions required. also required.
  

• Proven communication, organizational, and analytic skills in a complex organization.
  

• Ability to analyze data for budgeting, operations, auditing, accounts receivable, and reserve analysis.
  

• Additional education (master's in a related field) may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

• Experience in research financial management and clinical department business operations.
• SAP accounting knowledge preferred.

Classified Title: Sr. Financial Analyst 
Job Posting Title (Working Title): Sr. Financial Analyst, Central School   
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PD  
Starting Salary Range: $62,300 - $109,000 Annually ($85,000 targeted; Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: 37.50 
Exempt Status: Exempt 
Location: Hybrid/School of Medicine Campus 
Department name: ​​​​​​​SOM Admin Finance FP&A  
Personnel area: School of Medicine