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Financial Analyst

  • Responsible to a Vice President, Associate Vice President, Assistant Vice President, or appropriate administrator. Analyzes various financial data sources for one or more units to forecast business, industry, or economic conditions. Develops and tracks key performance metrics in accordance with strategic plans and goals. Performs complex financial reviews and projections to facilitate decision-making and planning for financial administration. Gathers and analyzes current data to estimate future expenditures. Presents a summary of analysis results and recommendations to senior leadership.

  • OFFICIAL MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Master’s degree in an appropriate area of specialization and two years of appropriate experience; or bachelor’s degree in an appropriate area of specialization and four years of appropriate experience.
  • Job Description
  • Reporting to the Associate Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, the position plays a significant role in institutionalizing a continuous improvement and performance-based culture at Florida Atlantic University, and ensuring fact-based accountability at all levels of the university. The Financial Analyst provides strategic data analysis, monitors strategic metrics, develops and facilitates the tracking of leading performance indicators, dashboard development, and maintenance, and supports departments and colleges in the strategic use of data. The Financial Analyst will also be responsible for developing ad-hoc financial reports and presentations including budget to actual and actual to actual variance analyses, financial projections, presentations, and other tasks as assigned.
  • Provide data and analytic support: Conduct strategic data analysis, identify insights and implications from institutional data and make strategic recommendations to executive and senior staff. Develop data displays that clearly communicate complex analyses to multiple audiences including executive and senior staff.
  • Facilitate performance metric monitoring: Monitor department and college strategic metrics through performance dashboards. Work with staff at different levels of the organization to track metrics, set goals and conduct analyses; use operational data in real time to develop and execute action plans focused on improving institutional practices, policies, procedures and ultimately student success. Build structures, tools and routines to institutionalize a data-driven culture of student success.
  • Work cross-functionally across the organization: Maintain cross-functional visibility across all departments to help push strategic initiatives forward and surface critical issues. Provide ongoing oversight and support to management and decision-making to ensure that measures are being used to effectively manage operations and effect institutional change.
  • Develop and refine institutional data capacity through data use: Support the development of department/college-wide data collection, analysis, and practices; train researchers and staff to make meaningful data connections.
  • Develop and refine institutional data capacity through knowledge sharing: facilitate regular reviews with department/college team; synthesize and share key insights across projects.
  • Develop, maintain, and train teams on infrastructure (Power BI) to support knowledge management.


  • ESSENTIAL:
  • Reporting to the Associate Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, the position plays a significant role in institutionalizing a continuous improvement and performance-based culture at Florida Atlantic University, and ensuring fact-based accountability all levels of the university. The Financial Analyst provides strategic data analysis, monitoring strategic metrics, developing and facilitating the tracking of leading performance indicators, dashboard development and maintenance, and supporting departments and colleges in the strategic use of data. The Financial Analyst will also be responsible for developing ad-hoc financial reports and presentations including budget to actual and actual to actual variance analyses, financial projections, presentations, and other tasks as assigned.
  • Provide data and analytic support: Conduct strategic data analysis, identify insights and implications from institutional data and make strategic recommendations to executive and senior staff. Develop data displays that clearly communicate complex analyses to multiple audiences including executive and senior staff.
  • Facilitate performance metric monitoring: Monitor department and college strategic metrics through performance dashboards. Work with staff at different levels of the organization to track metrics, set goals and conduct analyses; use operational data in real time to develop and execute action plans focused on improving institutional practices, policies, procedures and ultimately student success. Build structures, tools and routines to institutionalize a data-driven culture of student success.
  • Work cross-functionally across the organization: Maintain cross-functional visibility across all departments to help push strategic initiatives forward and surface critical issues. Provide ongoing oversight and support to management and decision-making to ensure that measures are being used to effectively manage operations and effect institutional change.
  • Develop and refine institutional data capacity through data use: Support the development of department/college-wide data collection, analysis, and practices; train researchers and staff to make meaningful data connections.
  • Develop and refine institutional data capacity through knowledge sharing: facilitate regular reviews with department/college team; synthesize and share key insights across projects.
  • Develop, maintain, and train teams on infrastructure (Power BI) to support knowledge management.