Financial Analyst - The Fountain Group

The Fountain Group is currently seeking a ­­­­­­­­Financial Analyst for a prominent client of ours.  This position is located in Berkeley, NJ.  Details for the position are as follows:

Job Description:

• Pay: $45-49.18/hour to start!

• Assignment Length: 12 months with possibility of extension or conversion based on performance & budget. 
• Shift: Monday - Friday, standard shift, HYBRID ROLE (3 days onsite, 2 days remote)
• Responsibilities include:
  • Primarily responsible for purchase order management, including reconciliation of goods receipts to invoices, ensuring consistent financial structure, and reducing time to pay vendors. 
  • Review and approve shopping carts, including validating SOW's, financial structure, payment schedules, providing necessary feedback to educate business partners to ensure compliance to accounting standards. 
  • Perform month-end tasks, including YFAP report & entry (SAP systematic accrual to delivery schedules) and preparation of analysis for journal entries and manual accruals. 
  • Monitor actual spending activities, analyze, and coordinate with domain controllers to report the financial performance to senior management to explain monthly cost 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. 
  • Also, will be doing financial reporting, consolidation, management of IT costs, including OPEX + CAPEX for the US time zones. 
• Day to day tasks: 
  • Approve purchase orders and input into tracker. 
  • Partner with IT finance on business partner meetings. 
  • Mid/end of month checks : PO/Expense/YFAP
  • Communicate to buyers to GR or update delivery schedule. 
  • Ad-hoc analysis as necessary. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree REQUIRED. MBA a plus!

• 2-5 years of experience within corporate finance. 
• Previous experience and working knowledge of accounting, purchase orders and accounts payable. 
• Skilled in the utilization of SAP. 
• Strong MS Office skills, specifically Excel. 
• Working knowledge of PowerBI preferred. 
• Strong analytical, problem solving, multi-tasking and communication skills. 

If you are interested in hearing more about the position, please respond to this posting with your resume attached or contact me at 813-356-0046.

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