Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

Job Description

The Financial analysts are the Analytical review and knowledge base to support client and program directors to include understanding and ensuring proper financial requirements, spend, reporting, draws, rebates activities of each grant. They are part of a team supporting the client commission and mission to promote, protect and improve the health and safety of all Hoosiers.

The Financial analysts are the critical oversight, and risk management review of financial activity. They will be working with teams, including accountants, and deputy controllers. Their insight, review and knowledge, oversees the financial impact of budget controls, deputy controller vision and direction, and the financial team process for procurement, accounting, contracting and revenue collection posting to the client financial system.

The Financial analyst is the direct contact to the Program directors who is their business partner, to ensure success in managing grants, goals, timelines, and providing expertise in review of budgetary constraints and purpose. The financial analyst will ensure the client financial system is setup and accurately provides controls as directed by the client grant requirements and client policy.

The Financial analyst may have additional client requirements of reporting, sub-recipient audits, client support, or client review of grant funds initiated by client and MOU to client, as well as client MOU of grant participation and accountabilities.

Financial Analyst Requirements/Abilities:
Execute project set up requirements, and budget, grant and contract amendments, renewals and submissions.
Provide guidance to program directors through review and understanding of expectations to each grant and activity projected.
Awareness of accounting procedure, grant actives posting to the general ledger, requirements of transferring, or correcting journals, and posting of wires, deposits.
Reporting and reconciliation procedures for risk management, program support, and client grant requirements.
Knowledge to meet accounting standards, in review and reporting of grants.
Critical thinking, in timing expectations and grant % requirements with expenses, vendor contracts, rebates, wires, revenue, invoicing and payments.
Ability to communicate and intervene to represent and support the programs.

Skill - Required / Desired - Amount of Experience
Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics or business administration. - Required
Prior experience managing budgets, reconciling accounts, and handling financial forecasting. - Required - 3 Years
Prior experience with statistical techniques and financial tools. - Required - 3 Years
Prior experience managing grants, goals and timelines with budgetary constraints. - Required - 3 Years
Experience with state-specific financial regulations and compliance standards. - Highly desired -
Prior experience as a financial analyst for a government agency. - Highly desired - 3 Years
Certified Financial Manager (CFM) - Desired

Notes:
Position is on-site, 7.5H/days Monday through Friday, hours between 7-9am start, 37.5H/week.

VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.