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Position: Finance Manager in Academic Setting
Location: New York City- onsite
Duration: 6 month contract- intent to hire long term
Core Responsibilities:
Financial Oversight & Reporting
- Monitor and review monthly financial reports, ensuring compliance for grants and contracts.
- Manage personnel salary allocations and effort tracking for all staff and faculty.
- Act as the primary financial liaison for departmental leadership, division heads, and central finance teams.
Business & Strategic Management
- Support faculty recruitment by providing financial inputs for business plans and evaluating budget implications.
- Collaborate with division leaders to allocate salaries, practice costs, and administrative or research support in line with agreements and contracts.
Compliance & Policy Implementation
- Ensure adherence to internal policies and external regulations governing compliance, budgeting, and spending.
- Stay updated on policy changes and create communication plans to educate the department on new procedures.
Team Development & Training
- Develop resources and training tools to onboard new analysts and enhance the skills of existing team members.
- Coordinate finance-related workshops and lectures to improve cross-departmental collaboration and efficiency.
Staff Management
- Oversee financial analysts, directing day-to-day tasks including reconciliations, grant management, pre- and post-award processes, purchasing, and other financial operations.
Data Analytics & Insights
- Create financial reporting tools to provide timely and actionable insights for decision-making.
- Collaborate with internal teams to identify workflow inefficiencies and design scalable reporting solutions.
- Build datasets and models to improve financial, operational, and clinical outcomes and develop data-driven insights to support departmental growth.
Additional Duties
- Generate custom financial reports and assist with special projects as requested by leadership.
- Conduct monthly profit and loss reviews to resolve discrepancies, address budget variances, and ensure accuracy.
- Prepare annual budgets for operations, discretionary funds, programs, and endowments.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and professional growth within the team by mentoring and supporting staff.
Qualifications:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field with 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Strong background in accounting or finance and familiarity with grant policies.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
Preferred:
- Familiarity with programming languages such as SQL, Python, or R.
- Understanding of general ledger processes, journal entries, accounts payable/receivable, and month-end procedures.
- Experience in not-for-profit, healthcare, or public accounting environments.
- Exceptional analytical and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.
- Proven ability to work independently in a dynamic, fast-paced setting while managing multiple priorities.
- Proficiency in finance systems, with a preference for familiarity with PeopleSoft.
For over 16 years, Medasource has established and maintained relationships that are designed to meet your IT staffing needs. Whether it’s contract, contract-to-hire, or permanent placement work, we customise our search based upon your company’s unique initiatives, culture and technologies. With our national team of recruiters placed at 21 major hubs around the nation Medasource finds the people best-suited for your business. When you work with us, we work with you. That’s the Medasource promise.
Medasource is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.
Benefits & Perks:
Medasource offers competitive medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Care FSA, and supplemental coverage with plans that can fit each employee’s needs. We offer a 401k plan that includes a company match and is fully vested after you become eligible, paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides services like virtual counseling, financial services, legal services, life coaching, etc.
Pay Disclaimer:
The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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