Budget and Project Analyst
Pacific Neuroscience Institute (PNI)
full-time
Posted on:
Location: Alabama, Iowa • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Oracle
About the role
- Compiles annual budget information for assigned division(s), may include multiple locations or multiple budget centers; compiles data from multiple sources into database/systems for overall division budget.
- Serves a contributory role within larger projects, gathers and reports comparative data for decisions such as vendor selection or equipment requisition.
- Conducts analysis of historical data against current data, gathers explanations to explain anomalies for senior management review, explores data to develop insights and questions for continued research.
- Provides revisions to prior views and assumptions based on new/revised credible data; analyzes data quality and recommends improvements.
- Maintains and reports on budget activities including variance reporting and outlook reporting; researches and resolves issues such as errors with chargebacks and accruals and distribution of assessments.
- Conducts expense analysis and identifies trends for senior management; develops tools and instructions to facilitate budget creation, monitoring, and creation of outlooks.
- Conducts data analysis in support of strategic projects; compiles, manipulates, and analyzes data of varying complexity.
- Provides monitoring, analysis, and oversight on strategic project budgets and trending; performs assigned tasks related to operational needs.
- Gathers, formats, and presents division reporting data in intuitive formats (spreadsheets/graphs) to foster meaningful discussions; communicates analytical results graphically and via narrative, following best practices for visual display of quantitative information.
- Interacts with all levels of employees within their division and the organization and may interact with external organizations/vendors.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required, accounting or finance, preferred.
- Continuing education in insurance related courses preferred.
- Minimum of 3 years’ relevant experience in budget processing, to include expense and/or data analysis.
- Strong problem solving, oral/written communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills required.
- Demonstrated attention to detail, with focused attention to the accuracy and consistency of reported data.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Knowledge of Oracle budgeting software preferred.
- Demonstrated knowledge of data systems to assist in obtaining and reporting data.
- Strong knowledge in creating and maintaining spreadsheets and other automated data storage systems, to include proficiency in Excel.