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Operations Finance Analyst

Job Id R-01309326 Job Type Full time Category Finance Remote Hybrid
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Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

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Office

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Our Finance teams are important to our business and functional teams to make educated, sound decisions that drive our Mission and make us a stable and trusted industry leader. From Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax, Treasury, Financial Reporting, Audit, Investor Relations, Strategy & Corporate Development to Accounting, our Finance functions have a diverse and global presence, providing significant opportunities to develop outstanding career experiences and perspectives. Ranked #95 on the 2021 Fortune 500 list and with revenues of more than $40 billion, you’ll discover endless opportunities to grow a rewarding career as part of the world leader serving science.

Discover Impactful Work:

An Operations Finance Analyst I, Contributes to the achievement of financial and business objectives through accurate and timely financial analysis and reporting. Works cross-functionally with operations, commercial finance, and finance to resolve issues related to any of the following: revenue, costs, contract values, billing, balance sheet management, financial reporting, financial tools and processes.

A day in the Life:

  • Administers the daily financial management of project portfolio and/or special assignments.
  • Collects, compiles, verifies, and analyzes financial information to provide
  • management with accurate and timely information for making financial decisions.
  • Works on transactional level tasks. Demonstrates the ability to prepare journal entries; maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts that are adequately supported and documented.
  • Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors.
  • Performs analysis of budget to actual data on monthly, quarterly, and annual bases and for revenue calculations and forecasting; or performs regular reconciliations and analysis of revenues and billing on a project and company level; and/or creates trackers, financial tools, dashboards and provides technical solutions by manipulating large datasets and compiling data.
  • Analyzes cost assignments, ensuring that all assigned projects enforce to accepted cost accounting standards.
  • Tracks, maintains and/or interpret project information and budgets within the project accounting system; and/or takes part in reviewing and development of financial reports, tools, systems, policies and processes in support of financial management process and improved efficiency.
  • Supports management in assessing and minimizing the risk on revenue and gross profit and/or balances associated with assigned balance sheet accounts and/or financial processes and tools.
  • Interacts with leadership through the presentation of database extracts and datasets, tools, models, data analysis, and dashboards

Keys to Success:

Education

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification

Experience

  • Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2+ years).

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

  • Ability to function as an effective and respected partner to internal clients
  • Ability to adapt quickly to new systems and processes
  • Confidence to handle critical information and make sound recommendations
  • Ability to juggle multiple tasks while still delivering high quality results
  • Good analytical and quantitative skills and ability to handle data effectively
  • Strong written and oral communication skills
  • Strong organizational and project administration skills
  • High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for analysis and presentation of data, for roles with more technical focus previous experience with SharePoint / VBA / SQL / Power BI / RPA (comparable to 1+ years) will be an advantage.
  • Solid understanding of accounting/financial principles and regulations/legal requirements, for roles with more accounting focus a professional accounting qualification – ACCA / CPA / CIMA or equivalent will be an advantage.
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