Financial Analyst Ii

JOB DESCRIPTION

Title: FINANCIAL ANALYST II 
 
Location: BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ
 
Duration: 12 months + Contract Role
 
Rate: $35 hourly
 
HYBRID Role
 
  
 
Location
 
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ
 
Remote Work
 
Partial
 
Talent must reside at location on submission?
 
Yes
 
Branch
 
Primary Skills
 
Financial Acumen, PowerBI
 
Notes
 
Required Skills
 
Job Description
 
Ideal Candidate Profile
 The ideal candidate should have at least 2-5 years of experience in Corporate Finance and strong knowledge of Accounts Payable, including reconciling Purchase Orders, 3-way match, etc. The candidate must be detail-oriented, analytical, financial systems savvy, ability to build strong business partners (IT preferred) and has a working knowledge of accounting. The candidate must be familiar with SAP, including financial transactions and has strong MS Excel skills.
 
 Job Description
 Position is primarily responsible for Purchase Order Management, including reconciliation of Goods Receipts to Invoices, ensuring consistent financial structure, and reducing time to pay vendors. Other responsibilities include financial reporting, consolidation, management of IT costs, including OPEX + CAPEX for the US and Americas Zone.
 
 Key Responsibilities
     Review and approve Shopping Carts, including validating SOWs, financial structure, payment schedules, etc., providing necessary feedback to educate business partners to ensure compliance to accounting standards.
     Reconciliation of Goods Receipts, Delivery Schedules, Invoices, etc. aiming to significantly reduce not only when services are incurred, but time to pay vendors.
     Perform month-end tasks, including YFAP report + entry (SAP systematic accrual to delivery schedules) and preparation of analysis for journal entries and manual accruals.
     Consolidation of IT Americas Zone expenses including OPEX and CAPEX Expenditures for B2C, B2B, Data, and Retail domains. Communicate monthly actuals performance vs budget and highlight risks & ops.
     Monitor actual spending activities, analyze, and coordinate with domain controllers to report the financial performance to Senior management to explain monthly cost variances (including allocation variances) and identify areas of risk and opportunities. Partner with IT clients to drive solution to budget issues, assisting with resource prioritization and to ensure that overall financial commitments are met accurately.
     Work with zone BRM's, IT Budget Owners and CIO team to monitor and report on the status of current year Americas IT OPEX and CAPEX projects.
 
 Tasks
 Day-to-Day:
 1. Approve POs and input in tracker
 2. Partner with IT Finance on business partner meetings
 3. Mid/end of month check:
 a. PO/expense/YFAP
 b. Communicate to buyers to GR or update delivery schedule
 4. Pull varies reports / large data sets for IT Finance financials
 5. Ad-hoc analysis as necessary
 
 Prepare for month-end close:
 1. Capturing accruals with business partners & IT Finance
 2. Analyze Cost Center for coding errors
 3. Reconciling, investigate GRIR
 4. Prepare YFA9, align with GAAP/Norms, investigate with BP
 5. Entries / processes:
 a. Create Intergroup Invoices
 b. Compile all Prepaid entries to amortize on BS
 c. Determine if any expenses do not have PO's to create accruals
 d. D1 post YFAP accrual for US & Americas Zone
 e. Analyze financials to reclass, ensure data quality
 
 Budget/Trend:
 1. Compile Risk & Ops with Domain leads + IT Finance
 2. Input financial schedules into F4T upload, validate PBI
 3. Reconcile and ensure financial consistency by Domain/BT Code/Cost Center
 
 Qualifications
 Position requires a bachelor's degree, MBA is a plus, strong computer skills, including advanced user of MS Office Suite, specifically Excel, and strong working knowledge of Power BI. The candidate must have strong analytical, problem solving, multi-tasking and communication skills. Lastly must be detail-oriented, and can thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment.