Job Description

We are seeking a Sr. Financial Analyst, Basic Science Departments & Centers who will manage a portfolio of basic science departments and centers and use data to drive analyses that inform decisions around financial goals, objectives, and performance. This role meets regularly with departmental points of contact to ensure two-way communication for advocacy, knowledge transfer, and a shared understanding of financial activities.



Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Coordinates

Meets regularly with Basic Science/Center departments to ensure two-way communication to create advocacy for the areas, knowledge transfer, and a shared understanding of financial activities.
Supports the financial business activities including developing school budgets, scenario planning, predictive analysis, financial modeling, variances, and forecasting.


Applies

Obtains knowledge of the Basic Science/Center departments and their financial activities through regular meetings and communications to determine how to advocate for the areas during conversations with JHM and JHU.


Creates/Prepares/Develops

Assists in the preparation of budgets, scenario planning, long-range planning, financial modeling, variances, forecasting, projections, financial plans and reports, and other types of complex analysis, involving the review of significant amounts of data.


Analyzes/Interprets

Analyzes the financial activities to assist in the preparation of departmental and school budgets, planning, modeling, and reports.
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 Basic Science/Center departments and the completeness and accuracy of their financial activities.


Problem Solving

Advocates for Basic Science/Center departments to ensure they are receiving funding for their activities and can hire staff and faculty.


Thinking Critically

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


Trains/Communicates

Ensures department administrators have the necessary information, skills, and support to perform their financial activities.


Collaborates

Partner with Associate Director for Basic Science/Center departments, other FP&A analysts; SOM department directors, administrators, and staff; JHM/JHU Budget, Central Finance, JHM/JHHS/JHU Finance.

Additional Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
Strong customer service orientation and focus on details, accuracy and meeting pre-determined deadlines.
Advanced knowledge in the use of the Microsoft Office suite of applications.
Proven communication, organizational, and analytic skills.
Ability to analyze data for budgeting, operations, auditing, accounts receivable, and reserve analysis.
Understanding of and commitment to the Johns Hopkins Medicine mission




Minimum Qualifications
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, experience with other data reporting tools.
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.


Preferred Qualifications
Experience in research financial management and clinical department business operations.
SAP accounting knowledge.