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• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: 120,000 - 130,000

Position Summary

Reporting to the Associate Director, Finance, the Finance Manager supports department leadership through (1) recurring financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting and (2) clinical finance management, including effort tracking, clinical compensation model administration, clinical program P&L reporting, and related analyses. The role ensures accurate, timely reporting; maintains sound documentation and controls; partners with internal stakeholders; and develops decision-support analyses and business plans.

Responsibilities

• Produces and maintains the department?s monthly financial reporting package (operating results, trends, dashboards, and leadership-ready summaries).
• Refreshes templates and schedules; ensures consistent definitions and presentation.
• Prepares concise variance narratives and highlights risks/opportunities.
• Coordinates elements of the annual budget process: timelines, templates, data collection, consolidation, and quality control.
• Partners with division administrators/program leads to validate assumptions and document budget drivers.
• Prepares supporting schedules and reconciliations for internal review and submission.
• Supports quarterly forecasts and interim updates; consolidates inputs and updates models.
• Performs budget vs. actual and forecast vs. budget analyses; identifies root causes and recommends monitoring/corrective actions.
• Supports post-close review: validates outputs to source systems/GL results; investigates discrepancies and coordinates corrections as needed.
• Maintains documentation and checklists to support repeatable close/reporting processes.
• Maintains the department?s clinical effort tracking process, currently via manual tracking tools, ensuring data completeness, accuracy, and clear documentation/version control.
• Translates effort tracking updates into downstream deliverables, including compensation-plan inputs and clinical program P&Ls, ensuring timely incorporation of changes.
• Supports the transition from manual tracking to a campus-level effort tracking database tool, including validating requirements, participating in testing/parallel runs, assisting with data clean-up/mapping, and helping develop end-user processes and documentation.
• Maintains and administers established clinical compensation models, including monthly calculations, validation checks, and documentation of assumptions and methodology.
• Owns the underlying data inputs used in the school-level clinical compensation dashboard, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and consistency with departmental source records and approved methodologies.
• Continuously updates and improves the department?s effective use of school-managed dashboards and tools by:
  • monitoring data quality and usefulness of available views/metrics
  • recommending enhancements to inputs, workflow and reporting outputs;
  • standardizing internal processes to align with school guidance and tool updates; and 
  • coordinating with school/campus partners to resolve issues, implement changes, and communicate updates to department users 
• Provides back-up coverage for high-priority clinical finance deliverables (e.g., time-sensitive P&L refreshes or leadership requests) as needed, in coordination with the Manager, Clinical Finance.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned/requested.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field or equivalent in education and experience, plus four years of related experience. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting clinical operations/clinical compensation in academic medicine or healthcare.
• Familiarity working across multiple entities (e.g., CUIMC/NYP/RFMH/NYSPI).

Other Requirements

• Must successfully complete all online system trainings.
• Progressive experience in financial reporting, budgeting/forecasting, and analytic support.
• Demonstrated experience with complex models and recurring calculations (e.g., compensation, allocations).
• Advanced Excel and strong attention to detail; ability to meet recurring monthly deadlines.

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