City of Hope Looking for Lead Financial Analyst at Irwindale, CA  Full Time

Join the transformative team at , where we’re changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, andtreatment facilitiesin Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

City of Hope’s mission is to “turn hope into reality.” Focused on eliminating cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening illnesses, City of Hope has established itself as a world-class leader in transforming the future of health. Raising the philanthropic resources to fuel its leading-edge research, its exquisite and compassionate clinical care, and its advancement of biomedical education and training, is a vital component of the City of Hope model of success. Each member of the Office of Philanthropy is a stakeholder in this work, with personal accountability for his/her role in building a successful future of delivering new cures, treatments, and education.

The Office of Philanthropy’s vision is to support this life-saving work by being known institutionally and nationally as a model of excellence among elite fundraising programs. Recent recruitments of nationally and internationally renowned faculty offer advancement leaders new opportunity for partnership among philanthropy, research and patient care.

To this end, we invest in our staff through the Team Activation Program (TAP) initiative. This initiative increases the effectiveness of our team through focused transparency & accountability, building trust within teams; training & development; celebrating innovation & risk taking; enhancing team communications and removing roadblocks to maximize activation. The TAP initiative ensures that the Office of Philanthropy is poised to move quickly, effectively and efficiently to maximize opportunities on behalf of City of Hope.

Under the supervision of the Manager, Finance Administration, performing a variety of advancement, financial, operational, and administrative duties and analysis functions in support of the day-to-day operations for the Philanthropy Group. Assists in the resolving problems that have a significant impact on the overall goals for the City of Hope (COH) and the group. Has the ability to work independently and in groups and ensures the integrity of financial related reports and trends.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Compile, reconcile, analyze, summarize, and interpret accurate fundraising advancement and financial data for reports, trends, and presentations to all levels in the organization applying GAAP, CASE, and/or other performance reporting methodologies.
• Develop and maintain insightful financial metrics and reporting solutions for operational team as well as executive presentation using dashboards from Excel, Tableau, etc.
• Partner with programmer and BI team to put the Philanthropy Finance Data mart and other web based tools for more dynamic reporting and analysis; interpret the business needs for reporting and help translate the technical needs for financial database, and dashboard for a more up-to-date and interactive visual presentation of reports and performances by department, fundraiser, program, etc.
• Lead and supervise research and preparation of variance analysis and explanations for commentary in management reports, fundraising advancement and financial reviews, and special projects critical to making business decisions.
• Develop and administer all aspects of the annual operating and capital expenditure budgets, and all annual fundraising goals and revenue projections within Philanthropy.
• Within Philanthropy: all department Managers, Directors, and Associate Vice Presidents, plus all senior management positions (VPs, SVP & ET); Finance Department: Financial Analyst and Event Budget Analyst: Corporate Accounting; Comptroller, Manager of Tax & Licensing; Internal Audit: Director and all staff auditors: Corporate Compliance – Chief Compliance Officer, and Associate Compliance Officer.

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related field.
• Experience may substitute for minimum education requirements.
• 7-10 years of relevant experience and/or oversight of finance, administrative, and technical duties, preferably at a major employer or research institution, including progressive attainment of financial management responsibilities.
• Master of Business Administration preferred.
• Management/Finance courses and training preferred.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, please .