Serve as finance team member in the Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine reporting to the ULAM Manager of Business Operations.

ULAM Financial Operations – 75%

• Makes appropriate alternatives to solve financial problems
• Prepares forecasts for ULAM recharge funds
• Maintains modeling of expenditures and makes recommendations on recharge rates
• Perform financial operations for the unit which include research administration, general fund accounting, financial transaction processing, and financial analysis and reporting
• Responsible for data analysis, trend reports and compilation of cost center data from multiple sources
• Revenue and Expense charts and summary activity metrics development and reporting
• Builds, maintains, completes, and updates ad hoc financial reports, provides analysis, projections and modeling of financial data
• Develops and runs queries using Business Objects in the Financial Data Warehouse to accumulate revenue and expenditure data, compiles reports and provides analysis of financial situations
  • Analyze revenue and expense trends each month
• Works to improve accounting efficiencies through process improvements associated with financial reporting.
• Demonstrates the ability to work with numeric data, manipulate data representations (graphical, etc.), and translate data into concise summary documents with key points highlighted

Internal and External Customer Support – 15%

• Reconciles PI, external customer and recharge accounts. 
• Generate estimates for ULAM work to external customers
• Generates monthly bills for external customers, track revenue and expenses to ensure timely collection of accounts payable. 
• Tracks purchases, service charges and encumbrances

eRam database reporting, updates and maintenance – 10%

• Perform the monthly eRAM billing offsets and make sure they are billed correctly
• Update the monthly cost accounting report in eRam

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance with 5-8 years of progressively responsible experience
• Extensive knowledge and experience using Excel
• Extremely detail oriented with the ability to recognize and investigate data anomalies
• Create reports and offer recommendations on accounting methods and procedures
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and the ability to build successful relationships with a wide variety of  people at all levels in many departments
• Competence in running and creating Business Objects queries
• Sound organizational skills and the ability to successfully multi-task in a fast paced environment
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as a member of a team

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Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days.  The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

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