​Global Finance & Operations Analyst – Employee & Time Mgmt - The Boston Consulting Group

As a part of the Global Finance & Operations Services (GF&OS) team, you will play a key role in recording, validating, reporting, and analyzing financial transactions, such as timesheets and expenses, to ensure accurate accounting and internal financial reporting. You will also be responsible for maintaining employee and project code data within our financial systems, reviewing and providing reports on key transactions. The team will support BCG offices across multiple global locations, collaborating closely with local finance teams to ensure that all financial information is accurately recorded, tracked, and corrected within established timelines. Additionally, the team will coordinate and manage queries across finance, HR, and other teams, ensuring timely follow-up and resolution of any issues. 

Roles and responsibilities:

• Accurately record and review timesheet, expense, and transactional data, identifying and implementing corrections or adjustments based on your own analysis and feedback from local finance teams. Ensure all activities adhere to both local and global finance practices  
• Review, reconcile and analyze transactions processed and/or adjusted to ensure they accurately flow to the financial documents.  
• Create, update and maintain employee and project data in finance system regularly to ensure the data is kept up-to-date, ensuring accuracy.  
• Leverage (or develop) system reports and queries to obtain data that can enable timely validation of employee/project data and to address questions and/or research on issues  
• Effectively manage and escalate issues or discrepancies as necessary, ensuring timely resolution by coordinating with relevant stakeholders and maintaining clear communication throughout the process  
• Work with IT/finance system’s team to investigate and resolve month end related system issues and reconciling difference while performing system reconciliations  
• Prepare and distribute the routine reports and follow up reminders to local finance teams  
• Partner and maintain relationships with local finance teams to address timesheets and expense related questions that may arise  
• Develop and review on an ongoing basis, the standard operating procedures, process documentation and RACI to ensure compliance and smooth operations  
• Ensure strong internal controls by maintaining backups/schedules supporting financial transactions. Adhere to the internal compliance policy and guideline established by the management on their daily operational activities  
• Maintain a strong grasp of basic financial accounting concepts, including recording, summarizing, and reporting transactions, along with knowledge of chart of accounts and system hierarchy  
• Build strong foundational knowledge of finance systems, processes and data/transactional flow to ensure more pro-active and independent problem solving  
• Actively participate in the organization-wide projects and initiatives