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Emory University

Senior Financial Analyst (ETS)| Temporary

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Atlanta, GA

🕑 Temporary

💰 TBD

💻 Finance

🗓️ October 28th, 2025

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Emory University is hiring a Senior Financial Analyst (ETS) for a temporary full-time position. The role involves coordinating financial reporting and budgeting, ensuring compliance with regulations, and maintaining proper accounting controls while providing management with long-range financial analyses and preparing financial statements and reports.

Highlights
  • Coordinate major financial reporting and budgeting activities
  • Ensure compliance with financial regulations and reporting requirements
  • Correct account balances, resolve funding issues, and maintain accounting controls
  • Make recommendations for long-range financial and cash flow analyses
  • Prepare and analyze financial reports, statements, and supporting schedules
  • Assist with budget preparation, monitoring, and grant administration including compliance and reporting
  • Perform indirect cost analysis and potentially hire, train, and supervise staff
  • Handle stock gift letters, recurring journal entries, invoice payments, and cash reporting
  • Conduct basic account reconciliations and manage journal wire transactions
  • Requires a Bachelor's degree in accounting, business, finance, or related field with four years of financial or accounting experience

Senior Financial Analyst (ETS)| Temporary Full Description

Discover Your Career at Emory University: 
Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community. Description: 

JOB DESCRIPTION: 
  • Coordinates major financial reporting and budgeting activities. 
  • Ensures compliance with regulations and reporting requirements. 
  • Coordinates the correction of account balances, resolves funding issues and maintains proper accounting controls and procedures. 
  • Makes recommendations to management related to long-range financial and cash flow analyses. 
  • Prepares and analyzes statistical and financial reports, financial statements and supporting schedules.
  •  May assist in preparing, developing and monitoring department/organizational budgets. 
  • May maintain grant agreements, policies and guidelines; coordinate grant reporting requirements; review grant funding source compliance; and negotiate grant funding with awarding agencies. 
  • May perform indirect cost analysis. May hire, train, and supervise a small staff.
  •  Performs related responsibilities as required.
 
Additional Duties:
  • Record Stock gift letters and corresponding journal entries
  • Recurring journal entries (such as income distributions, Jubilee transfers, monthly accruals, etc.)
  • Claim and direct journal recurring wires
  • Invoice payment (for the Sherman trusts)
  • Weekly and monthly EHC cash reporting
  • Basic account reconciliations (such as Physical Securities) 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, business administration, finance or a related field and four years of financial analyst or accounting experience, OR an equivalent combination of experience, education, and training.
 
NOTE: This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to commute to Emory University on a flexible weekly schedule based upon business needs.  Schedule is based on agreed upon guidelines of department. This role requires residency in the state of GA. Emory reserves the right to change remote work status with notice to employee. Additional Details: 
Emory is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law. Emory University does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment, including recruitment, hiring, promotions, transfers, discipline, terminations, wage and salary administration, benefits, and training. Students, faculty, and staff are assured of participation in university programs and in the use of facilities without such discrimination. Emory University complies with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Era Veteran's Readjustment Assistance Act, and applicable executive orders, federal and state regulations regarding nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, and affirmative action (for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities). Inquiries regarding this policy should be directed to the Emory University Department of Equity and Civil Rights Compliance, 201 Dowman Drive, Administration Building, Atlanta, GA 30322. Telephone: 404-727-9867 (V) | 404-712-2049 (TDD).

Emory University is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. To request this document in an alternate format or to request a reasonable accommodation, please contact the Department of Accessibility Services at 404-727-9877 (V) | 404-712-2049 (TDD). Please note that one week's advance notice is preferred.