• Job Description

  Req#: R2128

  Job Type:

  Regular

  Budget Analyst

  The Pardee RAND Graduate School seeks a Budget Analyst to manage daily financial activities within the school. This may include overhead budgeting, tracking, and monitoring financial data, participation in business planning, timekeeping, and providing support and guidance to Pardee management. This position will serve as a point of contact for addressing issues and interacting with graduate school students.

  Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Point of contact for financially focused inquiries from Pardee management and students, principal investigators, and RAND support departments.
  • Budgeting and financial oversight of overhead; donor-funded, grant-funded, and internally funded activities; and school supported activities
  • Directing staff to guidance on policies and procedures and making recommendations for improvements to processes and procedures.
  • Collecting data for various reporting purposes and simple financial analyses.
  • Additionally, may also include some operational responsibilities, as needed, such as support for timekeeping, procedure writing, or other corporate data requirement processes.
  • Managing financial aid and VA benefits & questions.
  • Address students’ questions regarding their fellowships, stipends, and awards.

  Qualifications

  • Strong Excel skills required.
  • Exposure to database and enterprise applications preferred.
  • Excellent written and verbal skills dealing with a variety of staff levels required.
  • Ability to maintain sensitive and confidential information appropriately required.
  • Financial reporting and accounting experience preferred.

  Education Requirements

  • A BA/BS is degree required.
  • A master’s degree preferred.

  Experience

  • Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience required.

  Location

  • Santa Monica or Pittsburgh

  Salary Range

  $71,000- $105,400

  RAND considers a variety of factors when formulating an offer, including but not limited to, the specific role and associated responsibilities; a candidate’s work experience, education/training, skills, expertise; and internal equity. The salary range includes base pay plus RAND’s sabbatic pay (which provides additional compensation above base pay when vacation is taken). In addition, RAND provides strong benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, paid time-off

  and more.

  Equal Opportunity Employer: race/color/religion/sex/sexual orientation/gender identity/national origin/disability/vet

• About the company

  RAND Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank created in 1948 by Douglas Aircraft Company to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces.

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