UT Southwestern Medical Center
Financial Affairs Analyst Lead
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States, 75215
Why UT Southwestern?
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you'll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career.
Job Summary This position is a Team Lead for the Award Closeout Team. The person will oversee the team and provide subject matter expertise for the team's tasks while creating change to get tasks done efficiently, accurately while providing excellent customer service to our internal and external customers. The Award Closeout team is responsible for timely closeout of awards and ensuring expenditure, payments and billing are ultimately recovered. If not, it is required to investigate variances and work across Post-Award teams to remedy and provide solutions to these issues. Understanding of Uniform Guidance, PeopleSoft and Research Administration is helpful. Ability to use higher level analytics; pivots, vlookups, xlookups, Power Queries, and Power BI will facilitate this position in being successful in this role as we move to more translational processes for this team.
Benefits
PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
100% coverage for preventive healthcare – no copay
Paid Time Off, available day one
Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
Paid Parental Leave Benefit
Wellness programs
Tuition Reimbursement
Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
Required Experience and Education
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting, or related field
Experience: 6 years experience in finance with demonstration in planning, forecasting, and financial analysis, plus analytical ability to understand complex financial activities of healthcare initiatives (or research initiatives depending on department needs).
Job Duties
Provides financial support for all areas of department.
Reviews and plan for various financial projections within team. Identifies areas of financial risk, present findings, and makes recommendations to management.
Plans, leads, coordinates, and manages budgeting and forecasting activities. Evaluates, prioritizes, assigns and implements capital projects.
Manages, directs and plans evaluation of departments or team's financial performance. Develops and recommends actions to achieve financial objectives.
Provides strategic consultation and guidance to management on financial or compliance issues, evaluates business processes and creates recommendations for optimizing impact on business initiatives.
Performs financial analysis on various projects. Accesses and utilizes financial data from various data sources.
Develops and manages work plans to meet target dates and deliverables.
Completes complex projects as requested.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Security This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.
EEO Statement UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.
Location Texas-Dallas-5323 Harry Hines Blvd
Job Details Professional & Executive 509000 - Sponsored Programs Full-time Day Job Regular Standard Job Posting: Nov 26, 2025, 2:41:56 AM
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Job Summary This position is a Team Lead for the Award Closeout Team. The person will oversee the team and provide subject matter expertise for the team's tasks while creating change to get tasks done efficiently, accurately while providing excellent customer service to our internal and external customers. The Award Closeout team is responsible for timely closeout of awards and ensuring expenditure, payments and billing are ultimately recovered. If not, it is required to investigate variances and work across Post-Award teams to remedy and provide solutions to these issues. Understanding of Uniform Guidance, PeopleSoft and Research Administration is helpful. Ability to use higher level analytics; pivots, vlookups, xlookups, Power Queries, and Power BI will facilitate this position in being successful in this role as we move to more translational processes for this team.
Benefits
PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
100% coverage for preventive healthcare – no copay
Paid Time Off, available day one
Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
Paid Parental Leave Benefit
Wellness programs
Tuition Reimbursement
Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
Required Experience and Education
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting, or related field
Experience: 6 years experience in finance with demonstration in planning, forecasting, and financial analysis, plus analytical ability to understand complex financial activities of healthcare initiatives (or research initiatives depending on department needs).
Job Duties
Provides financial support for all areas of department.
Reviews and plan for various financial projections within team. Identifies areas of financial risk, present findings, and makes recommendations to management.
Plans, leads, coordinates, and manages budgeting and forecasting activities. Evaluates, prioritizes, assigns and implements capital projects.
Manages, directs and plans evaluation of departments or team's financial performance. Develops and recommends actions to achieve financial objectives.
Provides strategic consultation and guidance to management on financial or compliance issues, evaluates business processes and creates recommendations for optimizing impact on business initiatives.
Performs financial analysis on various projects. Accesses and utilizes financial data from various data sources.
Develops and manages work plans to meet target dates and deliverables.
Completes complex projects as requested.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Security This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information.
EEO Statement UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.
Location Texas-Dallas-5323 Harry Hines Blvd
Job Details Professional & Executive 509000 - Sponsored Programs Full-time Day Job Regular Standard Job Posting: Nov 26, 2025, 2:41:56 AM
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