Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or related field, or equivalent experience.
• High School Diploma.
• 5+ years of research administration experience.
• Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate information in a timely, professional manner.
• Ability to set priorities and complete ongoing tasks with competing deadlines, with frequent interruptions, to meet programmatic and financial needs.
  
• Close attention to detail in a fast-paced, fluctuating workload environment.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Adobe and Microsoft suite software, especially Excel.
• Experience preparing, managing, and projecting budgets.
• Strong writing skills in a variety of styles to draft persuasive text for a variety of audiences while ensuring adherence to funding sponsor’s guidelines.
• Demonstrated knowledge of effective grant funding processes, procedures and techniques
• Ability to perform complex financial analysis and customized reporting

Preferred:

• Mathematical skills for the preparation of complex calculations and forecasts and to identify and resolve complicated financial scenarios.
• Knowledge of and experience working with a variety of external sponsors, federal and state sponsors, private foundations, industry sponsors, etc.