Title: Financial Analyst II
Duration: 6 months
Shift timings: 1st shift. Mon – Fri. 8am – 5pm.
Location: Remote, prefers candidates local to Durham, NC. Open to candidates in EST/CST.

Position Summary:

• This individual will support the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) revenue accounting team to complete special projects in collaboration with cross-functional business partners and play an integral role in system and process improvements.
• Conduct analysis of activities at the macro and micro levels for use by managers and senior leadership, including standard or ad hoc reporting.
• Perform exploratory data analysis, cleansing, aggregating, transforming, and balancing data for use in financial accounting and reporting.
• Analyzes, verifies, and balances all source data used in the preparation of journal entries, financial exhibits, reports, schedules, and other documents in terms of accuracy, completeness, and compliance with requirements.
• Creates impactful visual representations of analytic insights and concise summaries of methodology geared to audience needs.
• Prepares and maintains internal control documentation and testing in accordance with SOX.
• Evaluates controls for effectiveness and identifies internal control improvements, as necessary.
• Maintains strong working knowledge of systems and applications and process flows. Identifies process improvements and automation opportunities using data extraction and analysis tools, and coordinates testing and implementation.

Duties:

• Collect, compile, prepare, and analyze data from multiple systems, to process revenue entries, journal entries, and other financial transactions.
• Adapt to constantly changing requirements and business needs; quickly implementing solutions when necessary.
• Ensure continual review and improvement of processes to strengthen controls, improve productivity and reduce cost.
• Cleaning and preparing data for analysis.
• Analyzing data for trends and correlations.
• Building predictive models
• Supporting big data projects
• Designing and developing databases
• Organizing, interpreting, and visualizing data
• Communicating results to stakeholders
• Using data modeling techniques to bring cohesion to unstructured and semi-structured data.
• Conducting quantitative analysis to obtain insights, developing these into workable solutions, and then following these through to successful delivery (while measuring outcomes).

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting or MBA with accounting focus a plus.
• Public accounting experience or revenue/technical accounting experience in a public company or a combination of both desired.
• 3+ years of experience in contract management and project accounting, preferred.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles (ASC 606, US GAAP).
• Strong understanding of Order to Cash processes.
• Experience or background in accounting, finance, contract, and project accounting strongly preferred.
• Demonstrates critical thinking skills, strong analysis, problem-solving, and decisive judgement.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Is motivated to learn, and being proactive and willing to take on additional responsibilities.
• Experience with Peoplesoft preferred.
• Experience with driving data to insights and sustainable process in a large matrixed organization.
• Strong analytical and communication skills that allow for the development of data driven reports.
• In-depth knowledge of spreadsheet, reporting, query, and/or relational database software required.
• Working knowledge of Peoplesoft/Oracle Fusion preferred.
• Demonstrated advance experience/proficiencies in MS Access, Excel, and Power Products (Power BI, Power Query, etc.), SQL, Alteryx.
• Proficient in MS Office products (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint).

Required Skills: 

• Demonstrated advance experience/proficiencies in MS Access, Excel, and Power Products (Power BI, Power Query, etc.), SQL, Alteryx, Proficient in MS Office products (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint).
• Strong understanding of Order to Cash processes.
• Experience or background in accounting, finance, contract and project accounting strongly preferred.
• Experience with driving data to insights and sustainable process in a large matrixed organization.
• Strong analytical and communication skills that allow for the development of data driven reports. In-depth knowledge of spreadsheet, reporting, query and/or relational database software required.
• Highly motivated, self-starter, full of initiative, team player 5.
• Advanced PC skills in Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Strong Excel Knowledge, data manipulation, pivot tables, etc.

Preferred Skills:

• Contract/project centric industry experience preferred, and life sciences a plus.
• Working knowledge of Peoplesoft/Oracle Fusion preferred.

Education Requirement:

• Bachelors degree in Accounting, Information Systems or related field.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 32.31/hr.