Senior Financial Analyst - The Boston Consulting Group
Boston, MA
About the Job
As a Senior Financial Analyst within BCG's Commercial Finance Team, you will work in a growing global team that provides exemplary finance decision support to several hundred staff in the allotted practice area. The Senior Financial Analyst will quickly take on significant responsibility and receive frequent exposure to senior customers, including client service partners and Practice Area leadership. This position requires strong collaboration with Finance Director and the rest of the team geographically located in various cities. The individual will be expected to proactively contribute to enhance the financial performance of the firm while providing support and leverage to the team. Ideal candidate would be willing to backup other team functions as business requires and be flexible to take on other tasks within finance.
This position will play a key role in managing the financial aspects of client cases and management reporting, including:
Using and championing ClientView which digitizes and streamlines our pipeline, case opening, contracting, invoicing, and case reporting processes
Evaluating case economics, including project budgeting, forecasting, accounting, variance analysis, and price realization
Provide financial analysis on project as well as client and practice area levels
Assists in measuring results and ensures invoicing, revenue recognition process are complete properly for specific set of clients
Prepare financial reports and analysis to support business objectives and act as thought partner to internal customers (case teams, Managing Directors & Partners, Finance Director, others)
Prepare materials/content on key financial metrics for Practice area
Collaborates with a transaction support team in Costa Rica to ensure accuracy across invoicing, code opening, contract compliance and collection efforts
Supports client team, regional and external auditor requests
Participates in ad hoc reporting requests as well as supports regional and global initiatives as needed
Completes weekly review and reporting of work-in-progress, accounts receivable, collections and absorptions to ensure timely and accurate processing and revenue reporting
Reviews contracts to ensure terms and potential risks are captured and reported correctly
Back up other finance functions and team members as required