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The Division of a Cardiology is seeking a motivated candidate to play a key role within a world-class health organization. Contribute to the financial well-being of a nationally-renowned research institute. Take your professional expertise to the next level. You can do all this and more at UCLA Health.
As a Fund Manager, you will provide comprehensive analysis while managing extramural grant fund functions for the assigned Department of Medicine- Cardiology Division. In this high visibility position, we’re looking to you to represent Research Faculty interests in all pre- and post-award areas. You will:
•Contact funding agencies to clarify and resolve issues
•Coordinate research activities, agency reports, and special requests
•Compose, edit, and prepare written correspondence
•Support the implementation of new/ongoing research administration activities
•Help Division Administrator complete research administration assignments
•Manage the preparation and submission of grant proposals and budgets
•Provide financial analysis and long-range planning for all awards
•Oversee operations of post-award activation and administration
•Review and recommend process improvements
•Develop systemized accounting operations
Salary range: $28.20-$60.57 Hourly
Required:
- Demonstrated skill in financial analysis, planning, preparation, and administration of a budget with multiple complex funding sources.
- Demonstrated experience in post-award research administration, including fund close-out.
- Skill in navigating through Query Data Base (QDB) and Employment Data Base (EDB).
- Demonstrated experience in interpretation and hands-on application of accounting, budgetary, and auditing principles and practices in a University or non-profit environment.
- Working knowledge of University financial ledgers and payroll and accounting systems.
- Demonstrated skill in preparing short and long term budget projections and analyzing financial reports.
- Mathematical skills and experience sufficient to monitor expenses, analyze costs, prepare budget projections, identify discrepancies, and identify potential problems using spreadsheet programs.
- Working knowledge of University, NIH, and other major awarding agencies’ grants restrictions and requirements.
- Familiarity with UCLA transfer of fund online system.
- Knowledge of microcomputer systems and local area networks in order to enter and manipulate
- data on various computerized financial programs and downloads.
- Familiarity with Microsoft word processing and spreadsheet programs to include MS Word, Excel, and Access.
- Ability to initiate and implement novel solutions to various financial problems, including skill in organizing material, information, and resources in a systematic way to maximize efficiency and minimize duplication.
- General knowledge of University personnel, payroll, purchasing and travel procedures and policies.
- Ability to prepare computer-based analytical and administrative (ad-hoc) financial reports and correspondence, including cost management analysis to correlate resources with divisional programmatic needs in a clear, concise, and appropriate manner.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and set priorities in order to meet varying demands and competing deadlines from a variety of individuals.
- Familiarity with human subject and animal subject and IRB policies and procedures.
- Ability to accurately provide oral and written instructions and communicate clearly and concisely using proper English in order to convey messages, follow instructions, and obtain information.
- Demonstrated excellence in interpersonal skills to interact effectively with all levels of faculty, physicians, principal investigators, staff, fellows, and the public in a cooperative manner, including members of EFM, OCGA, general accounting, and funding agencies.
- Ability to function as part of a team and as accounting/grants manager liaison/analyst in large, complex divisions.
- Ability to provide information and/or explain policies and procedures.
- Skill in organizing material, information, and resources in a systematic way to maximize efficiency and minimize duplication.
- Skill in projecting, analyzing, and monitoring income and expense trends on basis of existing revenue and cost data.
- Skill in maintaining confidentiality at the highest levels
- Skill in programmatic evaluation to develop and maintain information systems as they relate to extramural awards and proposals, personnel, financial and organizational needs.
- Organizational skills to work effectively as a representative of the division.
Preferred:
- Demonstrated expertise in proposal pre-awards submission process.
- Demonstrated ability in creation of comprehensive databases and database management.
- Familiarity with UCLA Payroll Expense Transfer system relating to transfer of salary funding.
- Demonstrated management skills to provide direction and management of large divisional unit as necessary back-up and to represent the division at regional and national meetings.
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