Finance Coordinator

Are you looking for a new challenge, to push yourself, and for great career growth opportunities? Do you enjoy working with financial data, but also love being part of a highly collaborative team that works on difficult and important work? Then consider joining the Finance Strategy & Solutions Team as our next Finance Coordinator.

Finance personnel on the Finance Strategy & Solutions team within Business Affairs successfully manage unit budgets, finances, and complex business and financial matters. Members of this team strive to provide excellent financial and business support to administrators and staff in the units we partner with to accomplish the university mission. This position will support a portfolio of central units at the university with their financial needs while also collaborating within the larger finance community of Business Affairs. A successful candidate will apply general business theory and principles to daily operations. This position will work on the Analysis team under the Assistant Director to ensure goals and objectives are accomplished in accordance and within established policies, procedures, and priorities.

Outstanding UA benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; UA/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to UA recreation and cultural activities; and more!

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Data Analysis & Insight Generation:

• Extract, interpret, and communicate actionable insights to support financial decision-making, strategic planning, and resource optimization within Finance Strategy & Solutions.
• Analyze and interpret financial and operational data to uncover insights, identify patterns, and evaluate trends related to budgeting, expenditures, revenues, and fund balances. Support informed decision-making and continuous process improvement, requiring innovation and analytical rigor.
• Conduct financial and predictive modeling (e.g., trend analysis, forecasting, scenario planning) to provide actionable recommendations. Assist directors and leadership in evaluating "what-if" scenarios, forecasting year-end projections, and assessing long-term financial sustainability.
• Develop and maintain recurring financial reports and dashboards for FSS units, including Budget vs. Actuals, P&L's, Anaplan reporting, and All Funds overviews, ensuring data accuracy and alignment with university financial policies.

Data Infrastructure, Integration & Management:

• Support the development and maintenance of financial data systems and processes to ensure the quality, accessibility, consistency, and security of data used for reporting, forecasting, and decision-making across FSS.
• Ensure data integration, accuracy, precision, and completeness for complex, large financial and operational data sets-including transaction-level data, budgets, actuals, encumbrances, and commitments-used in all deliverables.
• Assist in developing automated processes for financial data retrieval, updates, reconciliation, and validation checks to support timely and accurate reporting across platforms such as UAccess Analytics and Anaplan.
• Manage financial data with sensitivity, maintaining discretion, confidentiality, and adherence to university financial and data security policies, especially when handling personnel, payroll, and restricted fund information.

Tool & Solution Development:

• Support the development of technical solutions and financial data products (e.g., dashboards, tools, visualizations) to enhance decision support, budget monitoring, and operational planning for FSS and its supported units.
• Assist in designing tools, visualizations, and reports that effectively convey key financial insights-such as budget performance, fund balances, forecasting projections, and financial health indicators-to unit leaders, directors, and stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development of cross-platform tools to address financial and operational challenges, improve planning and reconciliation workflows, and enhance processes both technically and organizationally.
• Solutions may include interactive dashboards, web-based applications, and SaaS integrations (e.g., Anaplan, UAccess, Tableau, Excel) that streamline data entry, automate reporting cycles, support financial modeling, and improve overall operational efficiency.

Collaboration, Strategy & Process Improvement:

• Engage FSS employees at all levels to refine financial analysis, reporting, and data-gathering processes for greater effectiveness, accuracy, and efficiency. Emphasize continuous improvement in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis workflows.
• Consolidate and enhance financial planning efforts by promoting streamlined processes, improved communication, and the application of the most effective qualitative and quantitative methods in financial management and analysis.
• Collaborate with colleagues across FSS and other university units to share knowledge of institutional financial data, tools, and practices, and to ensure alignment in reporting, compliance, and resource planning.
• Stay informed of industry best practices in financial planning, analysis, and reporting, and apply them to support data-informed decision-making and improved financial stewardship across the university.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Possesses advanced expertise in Microsoft Excel, including sophisticated use of formulas, pivot tables, VBA, macros, and complex charting to design financial models, forecasting tools, and reporting workbooks that support decision-making in data-driven environments.
• Skilled in producing customer-focused financial reports, analyses, models, and data visualizations that clearly communicate budget performance, financial trends, and planning scenarios.
• Skilled in business process and financial workflow modeling, applying established principles to clearly and effectively convey technical, operational, and organizational financial processes.
• Possesses strong foundational knowledge of statistics and finance, with experience applying predictive and prescriptive analytics to support forecasting, financial planning, and strategic initiatives.
• Demonstrates excellent team-building and communication skills; consistently operates with honesty and integrity; and remains flexible and adaptable in a fast-paced, evolving financial and organizational environment.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent advanced learning attained through professional level experience required.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Bachelor's degree in a field that includes analytical, statistical, or technical components, such as the following fields: Management Information Systems, Business/Data Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Finance, or Economics.
• Experience demonstrating comprehensive knowledge of university policies and guidelines across financial, accounting, and human resources domains-with a strong understanding of the University of Arizona's financial systems, fund types (e.g., state, local, auxiliary), and budgetary practices.