Financial Analyst II

BCForward is looking for Financial Analyst II at 8 Moore Drive, Durham, NC 27703- Onsite

Position Title: Financial Analyst II

Location: 8 Moore Drive, Durham, NC 27703- Onsite

Duration: 06+ months of contract with possible extension

Pay Range: $35.00/hr on W2

Position Summary:
This individual will support the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) revenue accounting team to complete special projects in collaboration with cross-functional business partners and play an integral role in system and process improvements. Conduct analysis of activities at the macro and micro levels for use by managers and senior leadership, including standard or ad hoc reporting. Perform exploratory data analysis, cleansing, aggregating, transforming, and balancing data for use in financial accounting and reporting. Analyzes, verifies, and balances all source data used in the preparation of journal entries, financial exhibits, reports, schedules, and other documents in terms of accuracy, completeness, and compliance with requirements. Creates impactful visual representations of analytic insights and concise summaries of methodology geared to audience needs. Prepares and maintains internal control documentation and testing in accordance with SOX. Evaluates controls for effectiveness and identifies internal control improvements, as necessary. Maintains strong working knowledge of systems and applications and process flows. Identifies process improvements and automation opportunities using data extraction and analysis tools, and coordinates testing and implementation.

Duties:

• Collect, compile, prepare, and analyze data from multiple systems, to process revenue entries, journal entries, and other financial transactions
• Adapt to constantly changing requirements and business needs; quickly implementing solutions when necessary
• Ensure continual review and improvement of processes to strengthen controls, improve productivity and reduce cost.
• Cleaning and preparing data for analysis
• Analyzing data for trends and correlations
• Building predictive models
• Supporting big data projects
• Designing and developing databases
• Organizing, interpreting, and visualizing data
• Communicating results to stakeholders
• Using data modeling techniques to bring cohesion to unstructured and semi-structured data.
• Conducting quantitative analysis to obtain insights, developing these into workable solutions, and then following these through to successful delivery (while measuring outcomes).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance/accounting or MBA with accounting focus a plus
• Public accounting experience or revenue/technical accounting experience in a public company or a combination of both desired
• 3+ years of experience in contract management and project accounting, preferred
• Strong understanding of accounting principles (ASC 606, US GAAP)
• Strong understanding of Order to Cash processes
• Experience or background in accounting, finance, contract, and project accounting strongly preferred.
• Demonstrates critical thinking skills, strong analysis, problem-solving, and decisive judgement
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Is motivated to learn, and being proactive and willing to take on additional responsibilities
• Experience with Peoplesoft preferred
• Experience with driving data to insights and sustainable process in a large matrixed organization.
• Strong analytical and communication skills that allow for the development of data driven reports.
• In-depth knowledge of spreadsheet, reporting, query, and/or relational database software required.
• Working knowledge of Peoplesoft/Oracle Fusion preferred.
• Demonstrated advance experience/proficiencies in MS Access, Excel, and Power Products (Power BI, Power Query, etc.), SQL, Alteryx,
• Proficient in MS Office products (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint)

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 243858 when responding to this ad.