Rosie Rith

FP&A leader with 8+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis, budgeting, rolling forecasts, multiyear planning, and institutional strategy. Oversee annual $400M operating budget, lead and develop teams and partners with executive leadership on long-range planning, capital investments, and resource allocation. Brings experience supporting research and development budgets, pharmaceutical-supported programs, long-range planning, capital investment decisions, and enterprise reporting.

Manage direct reports with 6+ years of supervisory experience.

Advanced

Excel and SAP Analytics Cloud user with a track record of improving financial processes, reporting accuracy, and management visibility.

Director, Financial Planning & Analysis - Boston University School of Medicine - Boston, MA

(2022-05)

• Lead annual planning, forecasting, and financial performance and provide regular monthly and quarterly reporting, and ensure organizational alignment with budget priorities, expectations, deadlines and deliverables.
• Partner with the leadership on monthly operating margin and reserve analyses to assess ROI, financial performance, evaluate funding availability, and ensure sufficient reserves for future capital investments and strategic initiatives.
• Conduct program-level profitability and cost-effectiveness analyses, evaluating instructional costs, faculty compensation, and program revenue to identify opportunities for operational restructuring and resource optimization.
• Develop executive-level dashboards and financial reports to analyze business trends, deliver actionable insights, and support senior leadership in strategic planning and decision-making.
• Develop forecasts and scenario analysis for faculty recruitment, compensation, staffing, program investments, sponsored activity, reserves, and other long-term commitments.
• Partner with departments to oversee annual operating budgets, monitor payroll expenditures and funding allocations, and implement corrective actions to ensure financial accuracy, budget compliance, and effective resource management.
• Build and maintain a 3-statement financial model for budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, scenario analysis, and net asset impacts.
• Prepare monthly forecasting reports, investigate budget-to-actual variances, and recommend actions to address funding risks and align spending with approved plans.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis as requested to assist management to make informed decisions.

Senior Financial Analyst - Boston University School of Medicine - Boston, MA

(2017 - 2022)

• Prepare budgets and forecasts for indirect costs, research and development, and general and administrative expenses.
• Managed funding for unrestricted pharmaceutical company-supported grants covering educational content.
• Review monthly budget-to-actual analysis, researched significant variances, and partnered with management to reconcile program budgets.
• Build and maintain dashboards (SAP Cloud Analytics) to translate data into actionable insights
• Serve as liaison with program directors, principal investigators, internal research administrators to ensure accurate management of Sponsored Awards and compliance with institutional and sponsor guidelines
• Partner with Accounting and other stakeholders to investigate and resolve data discrepancies, classification issues, and unexplained variances.

Compensation Analyst - Citizens Bank - Smithfield, RI

(2016 - 2017)

• Advised recruiters and business leaders on compensation packages, market benchmarks, bonuses, and incentive programs within internal policies and pay practices.
• Prepared recurring compensation analyses to identify pay trends, internal alignment concerns, and exceptions; reconciled discrepancies across systems and files.
• Collaborate with business leaders, HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and other teams to provide guidance on compensation matters.
• Respond to compensation inquiries from HR and business partners.

Bank Operations Analyst - Citizens Bank - Smithfield, RI

(2015 - 2016)

• Perform daily, weekly, and monthly cash and bank reconciliations, including retrieval and reconciliation of bank statements which may include manual entries in the accounting system.
• Bank account opening and maintenance including account closure. Perform quarterly reviews to ensure characteristic accuracy.
• Investigate and resolve reconciliation differences in a timely manner, including preparation of general ledger entries when required.
• Prepare and submit supporting documentation to dispute invalid deductions.

Master of Science - Computer Information Systems - Boston University

Bachelor of Science - Accounting - Johnson & Wales University