Senior Financial Planning & Analysis & Financial Systems Analyst

Salary range is $81k to $170k, with a midpoint of $118k. New hires typically receive between minimum and midpoint; however, we may go slightly higher based on experience, internal equity and market.

Sound Transit also offers a competitive benefits package with a wide range of offerings, including:

• Health Benefits:
  We offer two choices of medical plans, a dental plan, and a vision plan all at no cost for employee coverage; comprehensive benefits for employees and eligible dependents, including a spouse or domestic partner.
• Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Retirement Plans: 401a - 10% of employee contribution with a 12% match by Sound Transit; 457b - up to IRS maximum (employee only contribution).
• Paid Time Off:
  Employees accrue 25 days of paid time off annually with increases at four, eight and twelve years of service. Employees at the director level and up accrue additional days. We also observe 12 paid holidays and provide up to 2 paid floating holidays and up to 2 paid volunteer days per year.
• Parental Leave: 12 weeks of parental leave for new parents.
• Pet Insurance.
• ORCA Card:
  All full-time employees will receive an ORCA card at no cost.
• Tuition Reimbursement:
  Sound Transit will pay up to $5,000 annually for approved tuition expenses.
• Inclusive Reproductive Health Support Services.
• Compensation Practices:
  We offer competitive salaries based on market rates and internal equity. In addition to compensation and benefits, you'll find that we provide work-life balance, opportunities for professional development and recognition from your colleagues.

Under general direction, acts as the global administrator for the Agency's financial planning, reporting, and budgeting application including all change management, application upgrades, data integrity, configuration, security, and reports management. Leads development, production, and maintenance of a wide range of financial reports, ad hoc queries, and data analysis for the FP&A division. Performs a variety of budgetary and financial analysis to support the development, presentation, and publishing of the annual budget and long-term financial plan.

Interprets data and financial results using a variety of techniques ranging from simple data aggregation and statistical analysis to more complex data mining. Supports the FP&A Director and managers in business and decision‑making processes.

The following duties are a representative summary of the primary duties and responsibilities. Incumbent(s) may not be required to perform all duties listed and may be required to perform additional, position‑specific duties.

• Establish requirements, document, test, and train others to ensure FP&A system meets end user requirements for monthly, quarterly, and annual operating and project budgets, forecasts, and budget versus actual reports.
• Act as FP&A's technical support and liaise with IT or other departments and select vendors to troubleshoot system issues, create new and revise existing reports and update system configurations as needed.
• Perform all global administrator functions for the Agency's FP&A system.
  • Set up user security/permissions.
  • Lead testing for changes to the FP&A system including software updates, deployment of scripts to fix issues, and changes to reports or other functionality.
  • Ensure timely integration of data from other Agency systems into the FP&A system and troubleshoot/resolve as needed.
  • Troubleshoot system and data problems, involving others in Finance, IT, and vendor, as necessary.
  • Update and maintain lookups, custom fields, calculations, and org/account hierarchy in the system.
  • Perform quality control for FP&A system to ensure accuracy and control of data.
  • Perform upload of annual budgets to the Agency's ERP system and project cash flows to the Agency's long‑term financial plan.
  • Maintain all FP&A system documentation to reflect the current version of the application in use, Agency customizations, and FP&A's processes and procedures as it relates to role.
  • Perform service desk functions i.e., managing incidents and problems, including triage, escalation, and stakeholder communication.
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