MCG Financial Analyst- MCG-Office of Operations

Job Summary

This MCG Financial Analyst position will help support the financial, operational, and analytical infrastructure that drives faculty performance across the Medical College of Georgia. This role manages clinical incentive compensation models, monitors faculty productivity, and supports key financial processes related to research commitments, funding, and return on investment. The analyst provides data driven insights that guide compensation decisions, resource allocation, and strategic planning across MCG's clinical and research enterprises. This position will develop and maintain standard reports for MCG while being strategically focused on clinical and research productivity.

Responsibilities

Provide technical and analytical support for the maintenance of MCG's clinical faculty incentive compensation model. Maintain systems governing base salary, supplemental pay, and incentive calculations tied to productivity, funds flow, departmental budgets, and FTE assignments. Conduct compensation benchmarking and model revisions to ensure competitiveness and alignment with institutional goals. Support calculative and analytical models for the evolution of the faculty clinical incentive plan. Reconcile data sources, validate data integrity, and prepare detailed analyses and reports to support faculty compensation decisions.

Maintain standardized reporting that monitors MCG's faculty compensation relative to internal and external benchmarks. Manage individual and summative faculty accounts to track progress toward assigned productivity and compensation targets. Perform complex analyses to identify trends, outliers, and opportunities for improvement in both compensation and productivity. Provide ongoing reporting to support operational oversight, strategic planning, and continuous performance improvement across clinical and research missions.

Track faculty research commitments, including startup packages, bridge funding, and other institutional support. Maintain systems that track research productivity. Develop and maintain reporting on indirect cost recovery (F&A), including trends, distributions, and departmental impacts. Analyze research return on investment (ROI) by evaluating the relationship between institutional support, extramural funding, productivity, and outcomes. Track faculty research effort commitments and ensure alignment with sponsored project requirements, institutional expectations, and compensation structures.

Assist Manager of MCG Financial Operations with day-to-day financial duties relating to both MCG and GCC commitments. Duties include reviewing and approving budget amendments, funding distribution ePAR transactions, payroll and NPS cost transfers, negative budget corrections, and reconciliations.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with two years of experience in financial analysis or other business-related field.

Preferred Qualifications

Practical experience with PeopleSoft HCM and PeopleSoft Financials.
Significant experience working with advanced features of Microsoft Excel.
Familiarity with AU policies and procedures or experience in higher education, academic, or hospital/clinical environment.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

Proven competence in documentation of work processes.
Proficient in Microsoft Office and other computer software/databases.
Familiarity with AU financial structure and/or higher education financials.
Intermediate to advanced Excel knowledge including pivot tables, macros, report creating/formatting.
Established knowledge of industry standards related to physician reimbursement and clinical productivity measurement.

SKILLS
Robust analytical skills.
Independent problem-solving skills.
Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.

ABILITIES
Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Reliable and mature judgement.
Acknowledged ability to develop collaborative work relationships with varied groups possibly possessing competing priorities.

Shift/Salary/Benefits

Shift: Days; Monday - Friday (Work outside of normal business hours may be required).
Salary: $52,500-$65,600 annually.
Pay Band: B10
Salary to be commensurate with qualifications of the selected candidate within the established range (generally minimum-midpoint) of the position.
Recruitment Period: Until Filled.

Augusta University offers a variety of benefits to full-time benefits-eligible employees and some of our half-time (or more) employees.

Benefits that may be elected could include health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, Teachers Retirement System (or Optional Retirement Plan), as well as earned vacation time, sick leave, and 13 paid holidays.

Also, our full-time employees who have been employed with us successfully for more than 6 months can be considered for the Tuition Assistance Program. Consider applying with us today!

Conditions of Employment

All selected candidates are required to successfully pass a Background Check review prior to starting with Augusta University.

If applicable for the specific position based on the duties: the candidate will also need to have a credit check completed for Positions of Trust and or approved departmental Purchase Card usage.

Motor vehicle reports are required for positions that are required to drive an Augusta University vehicle.

For Faculty Hires: Final candidates will be required to provide proof of completed academic degree(s) as well as post-secondary coursework in the form of original transcript(s). Those candidates trained by a foreign institution will also be required to provide an educational/credential evaluation.

All employees are responsible for ensuring the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of sensitive [patient, student, employee, financial, business, etc.] information by exercising sound judgment and adhering to cybersecurity and privacy policies during their employment and beyond.