Financial Analyst II

Job Title: Financial Analyst (LRLGJP)

Location: Berkeley heights NJ Hybrid 3days in office 2 days

Duration: 06 months to a year minimum

Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate should have at least 25 years of experience in Corporate Finance and/or Accounts Payable detailoriented very comfortable with financial systems ability to build strong business partners (IT preferred) and has a working knowledge of accounting. The candidate needs to be familiar with SAP including financial transactions and has strong MS Excel skills.

Job Description
Position is primarily responsible for Purchase Order Management including reconciliation of Goods Receipts to Invoices ensuring consistent financial structure and reducing time to pay vendors. Other responsibilities include financial reporting consolidation management of IT costs including OPEX CAPEX for the US and Americas Zone.

Key Responsibilities
Review and approve Shopping Carts including validating SOWs financial structure payment schedules etc. providing necessary feedback to educate business partners to ensure compliance to accounting standards.
Reconciliation of Goods Receipts Delivery Schedules Invoices etc. aiming to significantly reduce not only when services are incurred but time to pay vendors.
Perform monthend tasks including YFAP report entry (SAP systematic accrual to delivery schedules) and preparation of analysis for journal entries and manual accruals.
Consolidation of IT Americas Zone expenses including OPEX and CAPEX Expenditures for B2C B2B Data and Retail domains. Communicate monthly actuals performance vs budget and highlight risks & ops.
Monitor actual spending activities analyze and coordinate with domain controllers to report the financial performance to Senior management to explain monthly cost variances (including allocation 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.
Work with zone BRMs IT Budget Owners and CIO team to monitor and report on the status of current year Americas IT OPEX and CAPEX projects.

Tasks
DaytoDay:
1. Approve POs and input in tracker
2. Partner with IT Finance on business partner meetings
3. Mid/end of month check:
a. PO/expense/YFAP
b. Communicate to buyers to GR or update delivery schedule
4. Pull varies reports / large data sets for IT Finance financials
5. Adhoc analysis as necessary

Prepare for monthend close:
1. Capturing accruals with business partners & IT Finance
2. Analyze Cost Center for coding errors
3. Reconciling investigate GRIR
4. Prepare YF9A align with GAAP/Norms investigate with BP
5. Entries / processes:
a. Create IG Invoice for Tech Accelerator to Paris
b. Compile all Prepaid entries to amortize on BS
c. Determine if any expenses do not have POs to create accruals
d. D1 post YFAP accrual for US & Americas Zone
e. Analyze financials to reclass ensure data quality

Budget/Trend:
1. Compile Risk & Ops with Domain leads IT Finance
2. Input financial schedules into F4T upload validate PBI
3. Reconcile and ensure financial consistency by Domain/BT Code/Cost Center

Qualifications
Position requires a bachelors degree strong computer skills including advanced user of MS Office Suite specifically Excel and strong working knowledge of Power BI. The candidate must have strong analytical problem solving multitasking and communication skills. Lastly must be detailoriented and can thrive in a dynamic fastpaced work environment.