Job Description

Title: Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis (CEMI)- 2 Year Appointment

Location: Midtown

Org Unit: Budget and Planning

Work Days:

Weekly Hours: 35.00

Exemption Status: Exempt

Salary Range: $144,600.00 - $160,500.00

*As required under NYC Human Rights Law Int 1208-2018 - Salary range for this role when Hired for NYC Offices

Position Summary

Reporting to the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) for Weill Cornell Medicine, you have a critical role in supporting the department’s Director. Your work will focus on budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes while delivering insightful financial analysis to support decision-making for the Director. Your management will be essential in optimizing financial performance and supporting the institution's growth initiatives.

This is a term position anticipated to be needed through Fall 2028 but may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding availability, and performance.

Job Responsibilities

• Work cross functionally to support the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes, ensuring accuracy and alignment with strategic goals.
• Manage financial models to support business decisions, including revenue forecasting, expense management, and capital investment analysis.
• Analyze financial performance and prepare reports on key metrics to support strategic initiatives including business unit trends, cost control and labor forecasting.
• Collaborate closely with the Accounting department to ensure alignment on financial reporting and compliance for month-end and year-end closing activities
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to provide financial insights and recommendations that drive business decisions.
• Maintain reporting systems to provide timely and accurate financial information and create dashboards and presentations for executive leadership, highlighting key financial metrics and business insights.
• Ensure data integrity and consistency across all financial reports and systems.
• Drive a continuous improvement approach with a focus on automation and operational
• Improvements on key FP&A processes (improved FX modeling, PowerBI commercial dashboard, SPoT data management for divisional analytics).
• Mentor a team of financial analysts, fostering a culture of high performance and continuous improvement.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration
• MBA is preferred but not required.

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis, preferably in a multi-unit or multi-location environment.
• Expert level excel user with extensive experience in financial modeling, data analysis and predictive modeling, and capability to train others in Excel proficiency.
• Expertise in data analytics tools and techniques, database management, and reporting systems (Adaptive Planning and/or Oracle EPBCS), Power BI, as a user, not developer)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and drive innovation within the organization.
• Ability to speak and translate issues/problems to leadership, work with different data sources and draw correlation between data, aggregate voluminous data and be able to work through noise and distill important facts
• Connect dependencies and relationships with data; understand granularity of connections
• An understanding of the accounting functions in a medical school – Finance, HR, Payroll, Academic support
• Basic knowledge of funds flow of an academic medical center including fundraising/development work and process
• Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and quality.
• Collaborative approach, with the ability to work effectively across departments.
• Support, train, and develop team members to ensure they have the skills and resources necessary for success.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of database, spreadsheets, and presentation software.
• Experience with MS Excel, Access, Word, SQL Server, Power BI, and Visual Basic.

Licenses and Certifications

Working Conditions/Physical Demands

Standard office work; position may require the need to work overtime to meet deadlines.

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