Financial Reporting Analyst

Financial Reporting Analyst

Harris County Housing & Community Development provides life-enhancing projects and programs to residents of Harris County. Our services include spurring community investment through the provision of homebuying programs, partnering with community members and housing developers to build diverse housing options that uplift communities and offer other assistance that support community building.

Under broad guidance from chief financial officer, and direct oversight by the finance assistant director and director, the financial reporting analyst is responsible for a variety of analytical tasks that include data set management, developing and preparing financial statements, tracking and evaluating budget performance against metrics and actual expenditures, supporting multi year budget rolls, developing ad-hoc financial models and reports (bound, e-format, dashboards) and funding and resource management. The Financial Reporting Analyst must be creative and will use their knowledge of data analysis tools, financial reporting, and accounting practices to aid the organization in identifying trends and areas of improvement in a modern and creative financial reporting modeling environment. They will possess great attention to detail, strong analytical skills, proficiency in financial software and reporting platforms (e.g., PowerBI, Tableau, Google Data Studio, Looker) and must be able to communicate at all levels of the organization and develop information useful for providing input and recommendations on strategic direction.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Interfaces with HCD management, financial staff, and technology team in identifying relevant data sources with the ability to work efficiently and be deadline-oriented while establishing and maintaining quality control over the input and output of data.
• Assists in the oversight of operational and program budgets that provide control of expenditures to carry out activities associated with federal, state, and local programs as well as working on budget rolls, budgetary adjustments for the ERP, maintaining a reconciliation of appropriations, and third-party reporting systems.
• Organizes, prepares, and assembles user specific financial information for various service units and programs by fund, project and activities into user-familiar and friendly formats, dashboards & tools.
• Provides financial analysis and support for operational programs and grants while developing and publishing mission-critical performance reports and tracking financial performance against metrics and goals for internal and external stakeholders and grantors; responds to requests for information and special report designs for service units and divisions.
• Recommends and performs maintenance of account code structure relevant to the general ledger, project and grant ledger yielding flexible and financial reporting formats that the users can easily comprehend.
• Researches and interprets the impact of federal, state, and local regulations of ongoing programs and integrates financial and performance metric benchmarks into reporting.
• Other duties as assigned.
• This Job Description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position.
• Management may, at its discretion, assign, or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

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