Financial Analyst

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today. 

Position Summary

The Research Finance Financial Analyst provides financial and administrative support to the Research Finance team, as the unit performs financial management of internally and externally funded research accounts. Working under the direction of the Director of Research Finance, this position collaborates with the Research Finance team, departmental business managers, Principal Investigators, and other support units at City of Hope.

This position performs a variety of fiscal, administrative, and analytical functions, which requires knowledge of accounting principles, professional and administrative duties, and business functions in support of the day-to-day operations of Research Finance. Assists and supports the Director of Research Finance in compiling, analyzing, and interpreting financial data. Other tasks include working with Research Finance staff to resolve administrative problems, review research expenditures and financial transactions against institutional and sponsor policies, and prepare research reports.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Assists in the planning, preparing, and analyzing the annual research enterprise operating, extramural, and capital budgets.
• Monitors budgetary variances on a monthly basis.
• Assists in creating, managing, and budgeting various allocations and adjustments as needed.
• Address any questions regarding budget data.
• Monitors and reconciles financial transactions on designated departments and submits corrections or adjustments monthly.
• Maintains and updates startup commitments.
• Assists with monthly management reports.
• Supports special projects as needed.
• Reviews capital equipment purchase requests for accuracy and completeness. Routes request paperwork to the appropriate individuals for signature.
• Works with department and central units to ensure capital equipment is successfully processed for purchase.
• Collaborates with the Research Finance Managers and Accounting to maintain accurate inventory of all capital equipment for audit purposes.
• Assists with new PCOTR project and department setups and closures, funding issues, and extension requests.
• Address any questions regarding restricted and unrestricted gifts.