Job Summary

Financial Associate

Key Responsibilities

1. Financial Planning, Reporting Revenue Management

- Record and validate monthly revenue for Fee-for-Service, Fixed Price, and Unit-based contracts.
- Manage complex projects and contracts, ensuring compliance with revenue recognition policies.
- Prepare monthly project-level actual versus budget and forecast variance analyses.
- Generate and distribute monthly financial performance reports and dashboards.
- Coordinate monthly forecasting cycles, including backlog and revenue projections.
- Meet established deadlines for revenue and backlog submissions.
- Prepare project closeout reconciliations and resolve financial discrepancies.
- Monitor project financial performance, including revenue, gross profit, receivables, unbilled balances, and project profitability.

2. Project Financial Management

- Load and maintain project budgets, resource plans, key member lists, and project data within financial systems.
- Support financial setup of newly awarded projects and ensure accurate project initialization.
- Attend project review meetings to capture financial impacts and update reporting systems.
- Review project-level financial activity and investigate unusual trends, variances, or anomalies.

3. Contract Backlog Management

- Review executed and proposed contracts, work orders, change orders, letter agreements, and amendments.
- Support approval processes for pending change orders and contract modifications.
- Assess financial implications of contractual changes and ensure proper revenue treatment.
- Maintain accurate backlog reporting and forecasting for assigned business units.

4. Business Performance Analysis

- Prepare and analyze:
- Annual budgets
- Financial forecasts
- Cost and expense projections
- Utilization metrics
- Headcount planning
- Resource requirements
- Revenue backlog analyses

- Support monthly business reviews with Business Unit Controllers and operational leaders.




- Deliver actionable insights on business growth trends, profitability, productivity, and operational performance.
- Develop ad hoc financial analyses and management reports as required.

5. Financial Controls Process Improvement

- Develop and implement financial controls to ensure reporting accuracy and compliance.
- Identify process efficiencies and workflow improvements.
- Participate in system implementation, user testing, automation initiatives, and finance transformation projects.
- Lead investigations into complex financial issues and recommend corrective actions.
- Ensure timely completion of month-end and project-related financial activities.

Education

- Bachelor s degree in finance, Accounting, Commerce, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- MBA, or equivalent qualified qualification preferred.

Experience

- 3-4 years of progressive experience in Financial Planning Analysis (FPA), project finance, commercial finance, business finance, or contract accounting.
- Experience supporting project-based businesses, CROs, professional services, healthcare, consulting, technology, or similar industries preferred.
- Experience with revenue recognition, forecasting, budgeting, contract review, and profitability analysis.

Technical Skills

- Strong knowledge of financial accounting and revenue recognition principles.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (Power Query, Pivot Tables.
- Experience with ERP systems such as Oracle, Workday, or similar platforms.
- Knowledge of financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

Core Competencies

- Financial Analysis Business Partnering
- Revenue Recognition Contract Management
- Budgeting Forecasting
- Problem Solving Critical Thinking
- Stakeholder Management
- Process Improvement
- Attention to Detail
- Project Management

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