Financial Analyst III - Artech LLC
North Chicago, IL 60085
About the Job
Pre-Intake Call Questionnaire
1. Position Title: Finance Analyst
2. Number of Positions Needed: 1
3. Length of Contract: 6 months with potential renewal
4. Location/Site: J41 3rd floor
5. Hybrid Onsite Schedule: Hybrid 3 days a week or more if needed (Required, no exceptions)
6. What are the top 3-5 skills, experience or education required for this position:
1. Good communication skills
2. Advance Excel
3. Planning and Analysis skills
Financial Planning and Analyst role
6-8 years experience, pharma or consumer industry strongly preferred.
NO Financial Industry experience if this is all they have very different, no insurance, brokerage, banking, no financial industry background, No Accounting only experience.
NO IT Project Managers... understanding FP&A
Accounting background with Financial Analysis would be considered
No prior VP/Director positions: These folks tend to not be happy doing day to day operational transactions
Finance Manager is the highest past experience agreeable to this role. Also ensure candidate has large corporate experience, Financial Analysis for small business is not a good match for this role.
Mostly track integration activity data in F&P, data management tools, preparing month-end close
Accounting AND F&P would be excellent
SAP, Excellent Excel, macros, pivots, etc....
Detail oriented a must
Future forward looking, how is future forecasting impacted
Working with big numbers is key, 5000 plus lines of data
Candidate has to be able to interact with people of all levels of the corporation. Strong inter-personal skills.
Lots of customer service, internal client facing of all levels top to bottom
Asking questions, challenging the answer
Strong in analysis to know what questions to ask
Prior experience with integrations
NO IT Project Managers... understanding FP&A
Office Based 3 days a week or more if there s critical deliverable or meetings
Purpose Statement:
The Financial Analyst will be responsible to complete various FP&A analysis related to ad-hoc projects, as well as supports on day-to-day operations for BTS organization.
Major Responsibilities:
" Responsible for analyzing, communicating and processing BTS various chargeback.
" Works directly with Accounting Shared Service contact on monthly close processes to ensure complete, accurate and timely monthly actual results.
" Prepare monthly actuals variance analysis and commentary for P&L and headcount. Understands monthly results and communicates risks and opportunities vs. benchmark to manager and budget owners.
" Prepare and develop drafts of monthly Integration LBEs and incorporates review changes of both financial and operating management.
" Meet all financial reporting requirements for the Business Group, BTS HQ and Corporate. Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and business policies and procedures.
" Drive process developments and improvements, as well as documentations.
" Provide reconciliation and analysis on third party resource billing, charge out and savings.
" Perform ad hoc analysis and supports on various projects.
" Reports to FP&A Sr. Manager, BTS. Interact with all levels of management including BTS Managers, BTS FP&A, and Accounting COE.
Qualifications:
Basic:
" B.A/B.S Degree in Finance
" 6-8 years FP&A or Financial reporting
" Strong Client Excel skills
" Excellent oral and written communication skills
" SAP General Ledger and SRM experience
Preferred:
" IBM Cognos TM1 experience
" MBA/CPA a plus
Key Leadership Competencies:
" Strong set of analytical skills; high attention to detail and accuracy.
" Ability to meet tight timelines and balance workload/multiple projects.
" Build effective relationships with peers and cross functionally with business partners to enable higher performance.
" Creates a learning environment, open to suggestions and experimentation for improvement.
" Quick learner and grasps the essence ; can change course quickly when needed.
" Continually seeks process improvements; challenges the status quo.
" Able to connect unrelated concepts, generates original or unique ideas.
" Initiative and ability to work independently.
What are the top skills/requirements this person is required have?
FP&A not accounting experience.
Experience in MS Excel (Advanced)
Familiar with supporting multinational company
Manage significant volume of data
Good communication skills/customer facing
Multi-tasking
1. Position Title: Finance Analyst
2. Number of Positions Needed: 1
3. Length of Contract: 6 months with potential renewal
4. Location/Site: J41 3rd floor
5. Hybrid Onsite Schedule: Hybrid 3 days a week or more if needed (Required, no exceptions)
6. What are the top 3-5 skills, experience or education required for this position:
1. Good communication skills
2. Advance Excel
3. Planning and Analysis skills
Financial Planning and Analyst role
6-8 years experience, pharma or consumer industry strongly preferred.
NO Financial Industry experience if this is all they have very different, no insurance, brokerage, banking, no financial industry background, No Accounting only experience.
NO IT Project Managers... understanding FP&A
Accounting background with Financial Analysis would be considered
No prior VP/Director positions: These folks tend to not be happy doing day to day operational transactions
Finance Manager is the highest past experience agreeable to this role. Also ensure candidate has large corporate experience, Financial Analysis for small business is not a good match for this role.
Mostly track integration activity data in F&P, data management tools, preparing month-end close
Accounting AND F&P would be excellent
SAP, Excellent Excel, macros, pivots, etc....
Detail oriented a must
Future forward looking, how is future forecasting impacted
Working with big numbers is key, 5000 plus lines of data
Candidate has to be able to interact with people of all levels of the corporation. Strong inter-personal skills.
Lots of customer service, internal client facing of all levels top to bottom
Asking questions, challenging the answer
Strong in analysis to know what questions to ask
Prior experience with integrations
NO IT Project Managers... understanding FP&A
Office Based 3 days a week or more if there s critical deliverable or meetings
Purpose Statement:
The Financial Analyst will be responsible to complete various FP&A analysis related to ad-hoc projects, as well as supports on day-to-day operations for BTS organization.
Major Responsibilities:
" Responsible for analyzing, communicating and processing BTS various chargeback.
" Works directly with Accounting Shared Service contact on monthly close processes to ensure complete, accurate and timely monthly actual results.
" Prepare monthly actuals variance analysis and commentary for P&L and headcount. Understands monthly results and communicates risks and opportunities vs. benchmark to manager and budget owners.
" Prepare and develop drafts of monthly Integration LBEs and incorporates review changes of both financial and operating management.
" Meet all financial reporting requirements for the Business Group, BTS HQ and Corporate. Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and business policies and procedures.
" Drive process developments and improvements, as well as documentations.
" Provide reconciliation and analysis on third party resource billing, charge out and savings.
" Perform ad hoc analysis and supports on various projects.
" Reports to FP&A Sr. Manager, BTS. Interact with all levels of management including BTS Managers, BTS FP&A, and Accounting COE.
Qualifications:
Basic:
" B.A/B.S Degree in Finance
" 6-8 years FP&A or Financial reporting
" Strong Client Excel skills
" Excellent oral and written communication skills
" SAP General Ledger and SRM experience
Preferred:
" IBM Cognos TM1 experience
" MBA/CPA a plus
Key Leadership Competencies:
" Strong set of analytical skills; high attention to detail and accuracy.
" Ability to meet tight timelines and balance workload/multiple projects.
" Build effective relationships with peers and cross functionally with business partners to enable higher performance.
" Creates a learning environment, open to suggestions and experimentation for improvement.
" Quick learner and grasps the essence ; can change course quickly when needed.
" Continually seeks process improvements; challenges the status quo.
" Able to connect unrelated concepts, generates original or unique ideas.
" Initiative and ability to work independently.
What are the top skills/requirements this person is required have?
FP&A not accounting experience.
Experience in MS Excel (Advanced)
Familiar with supporting multinational company
Manage significant volume of data
Good communication skills/customer facing
Multi-tasking
Source : Artech LLC
