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Our University client in Boston is looking for a Financial Analyst with excellent interpersonal and analytical skills, a team-focused mentality, and the ability to absorb complex technical information and communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences. This is an on-site, contract role. Must exhibit discretion and professionalism in handling confidential information. Immediate availability to interview and start is needed.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- Develop and maintains department operating budgets to ensure alignment with the college operations and strategic initiatives for the fiscal year
- Utilize defined business processes for SAP and Business Warehouse data extraction and integration of data from SAP and internal databases (Access or Excel), to produce standard monthly baseline reports
- Perform validation and reconciliation of data changes month-to-month
- Resolve open historical data special cases (for example, variances in classifications year over year)
- Build more efficient tools to routinize manual steps; suggest improvements to data management and reporting business processes
- Assist with improved report formatting
- Create, analyze, and maintain financial spreadsheets for administrative and academic units
- Additional duties as needed
Qualifications:
- Excellent computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel
- Experience with SAP and Business Warehouse required
- Experience exporting and migrating financial and nonfinancial data
- Experience creating templates and business processes to assist with revising, uploading or downloading database elements
- Aptitude in organizing operational activities and resolving personnel conflicts
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including written and oral communication skills.
- Strong critical thinking and analytic abilities, especially with quantitative and programmatic information
- Ability to view programs critically and think creatively about alternatives for providing services
- Knowledge of Tableau preferred, but not required
- BA/BS in any field
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