Decision Support Specialist jobs in Galveston, TX

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/Accounting or equivalent in related field and at least 5 years of relevant work experience

Job Summary:

Manages and assists the Director and/or Senior Finance Manager in financial and operational analysis activities with a complex functional or organizational scope. The manager will be able to assist in multiple activities at one time with minimum supervision.

Job Duties:

• Assists the Director and/or Senior Finance Manager with department operations including departmental budget, staffing, and special projects
• Supervises the coordination, preparation and analysis of complex financial and operational
• reports, financial statements, scorecards, metrics, benchmarks, budgets, and financial forecasts across multiple areas
• Oversees and validates complex analysis of historical and projected financial and operational data to provide leadership information to make relevant financial decisions
• Manages and validates information to support developing trends that will inform forecasts and management decision making
• Identifies and utilizes technology and best practices to ensure continuous processimprovement
• Oversees the quality assurance functions of financial data and statistical information
• Remains current with and progressively learns industry trends, analytical techniques and appropriate financial systems necessary to complete essential job functions
• Adheres to internal controls and reporting structure
• Performs related duties as assigned

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Possess and demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding, with progressive development, of financial statements and relationships, analytical techniques, operations, and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, practices, and procedures
• Progressive development of the ability to analyze/evaluate data
• Must possess excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively work and communicate with individuals at all levels of the institution
• Possess advanced decision-making skills
• Strong organizational and planning skills
• Effective problem-solving skills
• Ability to accomplish goals
• Demonstrates a high degree of professionalism

External Relations and Development:

• Actively participates with Business and Finance colleagues in completing initiatives, goals and priorities
• Develops productive relationships with UTMB personnel across campus while accomplishing institutional objectives

Preferred Qualifications:

• CPA and/or Masters’ Degree in Business or related field is preferred.
• Experience in Health Systems and Academic Medicine is desirable.
• Pro forma and business plan development
• Financial modeling and sensitivity analyses
• Data analytics/ Data mining
• Proficient in Excel
• EPSi or Qlik experience a plus.
• Cost Accounting Principles as well as Hyperion, PeopleSoft, Action O/I, Strata, PBCS, Power BI

Salary Range:

Actual salary commensurate with experience.

Work Schedule:

Partial remote, three days working in office, two days working from home Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm and as needed on occasion.