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Financial Analyst - Grants
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Position Number: 3351901
Location: Boston, MA
Position Type: Business and Financial Management

Financial Analyst - Grants

About the Opportunity

Summary and Responsibilities:

The Administrative Resource Center at the College of Engineering is seeking a Financial Analyst to join their post award team. This position provides financial and compliance analysis along with post-award administrative support to College principal investigators (PI's). This position oversees the financial planning and analysis of the PI's funding portfolio to assist PI's with expenditure and payroll forecasting. This position analyzes the policies and regulations that govern grants, contracts and internal awards to ensure the PI's portfolio remains in compliance. Additional responsibilities include providing monthly financial reports, resolving accounting and payroll issues, facilitating annual effort certifications, and reviewing financial reconciliations and working to resolve errors.

The Financial Analyst will also be responsible for partnering with the PI's to submit all grant related administrative requests including no-cost extensions, rebudgets, advance accounts and closeouts in accordance with sponsor guidelines. The position will work closely with the central units to ensure accurate and timely submission of all requests to the sponsor.

The Financial Analyst responsibilities also include the analysis of processes in order to improve workflow and work efficiencies; determine changes needed in order to avoid repetition of errors; and provide formal and informal training opportunities to PI's. The candidate will act as liaison between faculty, College, NU-RES, Finance and other University units as needed.

Qualifications:

A strong customer service focus is required.
Bachelor's Degree candidate required with a business or finance major preferred. Candidate should have up to 3 years of professional work experience in higher education and/or business setting. Familiarity with overall federal grant administration is desired. Candidate must have accounting and finance knowledge and be able to work with budgets; have excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational, prioritization and time management skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects and complete tasks for a number of principal investigators and administrators. A strong attention to detail, customer service oriented, initiative, flexibility, and the ability to work independently and as a member of a team are required.

Successful candidate must stay current with all new and existing regulatory requirements and institutional policies/procedures and keep faculty PIs and department leadership informed of changes. Due to the amount of personal and financial information involved, the post award administrator must have the aptitude for treating sensitive information related to salaries, department finances and science in a confidential and professional manner.

Advanced experience with MS Office and Adobe Professional and the ability to learn new software programs and techniques quickly is essential.

Position Type

Finance

Additional Information

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.

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