Senior Accounting & Budget Analyst

Summary

Provides financial leadership and oversight for Facilities and IT infrastructure activities, including budgeting, forecasting and project accounting for operating and capital expenditures. Supports accurate financial reporting, capitalization, and decision making through collaboration with infrastructure leadership and project stakeholders

Essential Job Functions

• Leads annual budgeting, reforecasting, and multi year planning for infrastructure cost centers and capital projects
• Develops and maintains infrastructure budget models and key assumptions, translating operational plans into standardized, data-driven financial forecasts that support informed financial decision-making
• Monitors infrastructure operating and capital budgets, identifying trends, risks, and variances and communicating key drivers to leadership
• Develops recurring and ad hoc financial reporting (dashboards, project scorecards, KPI reporting) to support infrastructure and institutional planning
• Performs scenario analysis to support decisions on major infrastructure investments and capital funding strategies
• Serves as the primary liaison for infrastructure project accounting, including establishing and maintaining projects and tasks, budgets and funding sources in alignment with approved scope and governance
• Monitors project budgets, commitments, and actuals; maintains accurate cost capture, coding, and allocation across projects, tasks and funding sources
• Prepares project level financial status reports for Facilities, IT, FP&A, and senior leadership; escalates emerging issues (e.g., budget pressure, funding gaps, cost overruns) to appropriate stakeholders
• Records completed infrastructure projects and qualifying assets in the fixed asset system, assigning asset type, useful life, and depreciation in accordance with institutional policy
• Supports monthly, mid year, and year end close activities related to infrastructure projects and fixed assets, including accrual support, reconciliations, and documentation
• Maintains accurate and timely recording of project and asset activity in the general ledger through ongoing review, reconciliation, and issue resolution
• Designs, documents, and monitors internal controls over infrastructure budgeting, forecasting, project accounting, and capitalization, ensuring no single individual has end-to-end control of transactions to reduce risk and maintain proper oversight
• Prepares and maintains documentation to support internal and external audit requirements related to infrastructure budgets, projects, and fixed assets; serves as a finance liaison for audit inquiries
• Provides guidance and training on budget tools, reports, and financial concepts to promote consistent, compliant practices
• Collaborates with other university departments to improve processes, controls, reporting quality and system usage for infrastructure financial management
• Performs other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree
• Moderate amount of experience working in project accounting, financial planning and analysis, capital projects and related financial controls or other related experience
• Experience working with enterprise financial systems (e.g., Oracle Cloud Fusion ERP and Oracle Cloud EPM)
• Experience with project modules (e.g., PPM), fixed asset accounting/capitalization, and close support (reconciliations, cut off, audit documentation)

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field of study
• Current CPA, CMA, or similar professional certification

Compensation: $105,000/annualized

Benefits: This full-time position offers a comprehensive benefits package, which includes health, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, paid holidays, sick time, vacation time, a 401(k) retirement savings plan, health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA), educational assistance benefits, and an employee assistance program. Participation in any benefit is subject to meeting eligibility criteria. The university reserves the right to modify, amend or terminate any benefit or benefit programs as they apply to any participants, including but not limited to current and former employees. This is only a summary; the full details, which control, are in the applicable plan documents.

Please Note

Qualified candidates must live or relocate to live within a daily commuting distance of the Providence Campus location upon hire.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until job posting is closed.

Johnson & Wales University is an equal opportunity employer. The university does not illegally discriminate on the basis of any protected class. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, disability, ethnic and national origin, familial status, gender or gender identity, genetic information, military service, national origin, pregnancy and related conditions, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class.