Main Responsibilities of a Financial Analyst at Berkeley Lab
Calvin's role as a Financial Analyst at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory involves "budget analyst" responsibilities, ensuring projects finish "in time and on budget." Instead of directly managing project funding, Calvin's focus is on overseeing the division's annual budget allocation, assisting departments in staying within their assigned funds.
Budget Analysis, Financial Planning, Project Management, Grant Management, Resource Allocation
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Calvin Lau
Financial Analyst
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
UCLA 2012
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Business Management & Admin
Energy & Utilities, Government & Public Sector
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Honors Student, Scholarship Recipient, Took Out Loans, LGBTQ
Video Highlights
1. Manages budgets and ensures projects finish on time and within budget.
2. Works as a budget analyst, helping divisions and departments stay within their annual budget allocations.
3. Involved in the process of competing for and obtaining grants and proposals for projects, although not directly managing the projects themselves.
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What are some of the main responsibilities within your current role?
My current role is a budget analyst. Basically, we compete for proposals and grants, and then we're successfully awarded them. My job in the finance piece is to make sure that we finish the projects on time and on budget.
My entity is funded from overhead. So for me, it's still a budget analyst role. Instead of working on proposals and making sure we finish within budget for awarded projects, we're given an allocation of budget every year.
My job is to help our division and departments make sure that we finish within those budgets each year.