Gina and Frank Day Health Institute Temporary Budget Analyst

This position coordinates and monitors up to 10 different grants and budgets for the Health Institute. Additionally, the position conducts budget and financial analysis and presents findings to Institute and the CHHS senior leadership and financial oversight groups. This position requires knowledge of MSU business operations; analytical techniques (e.g. budgetary, financial, statistical, and research); budgetary methods and management; administrative computing systems; some basic accounting principles;

• Manage and monitor the grant and general fund budgets process.

• Weekly budget monitoring to ensure payroll and fund allocations are accurate for grant reporting.
• Provide costing allocation corrections to payroll and accounts payable to ensure grant budgets stay accurate
• Conduct budget review meetings with the program managers, CHHS managers to review the current program budget and establish the most accurate and realistic revenue and expense estimates for the program based on trends and year to date activity.
• Acts as a liaison between program managers and administrative departments (Accounting, Human Resources, Accounts Receivables, etc.) to assure changes and updates are accurately completed.
• Review and comparison of actual results to projections should be completed to gain insight on the accuracy of the projections and to see where improvements can be made.

• Develop Health Institute budget dashboard to be able to track current budget more easily.
• Provide insight into the development of a two-year Health Institute budget.
• Conduct analysis, develop reports and respond to data requests for the auxiliary funds, as needed to include calculating and maintaining data on revenue and expense projection
• Document processes related to the auxiliary fund programs and providing training to internal and external constituents as needed.
• Identify opportunities to streamline budget processes to improve efficiencies and data integrity.
  for facilitating a well-balanced relationship with internal and external constituents.

This position does require enrollment in a PERA Retirement Account.

Salary for Announcement:

$30.00 per hour

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree.
  Previous Administrative experience with planning, accounting, or budget development experience.
• Proficiency in computer modeling.
• Experience with Microsoft Office software suite, and relational databases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in higher education,
• Familiar with MSU Denver's administrative systems.
• Experience with developing budget/financial dashboards
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Previous experience leading or managing projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Previous experience identifying and executing opportunities for process improvement.
• Previous experience with data analysis and report development.

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