Financial Analyst II

SPECTRAFORCE; North Carolina; Remote; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a mid-senior level professional to support the Revenue Cycle Management team. This role involves data analysis, process improvement, and collaboration across teams. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting and strong proficiency in Excel and PeopleSoft. This is a remote position, preferably in Durham, NC.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in contract management and project accounting preferred.
• Strong understanding of Order to Cash processes.
• Experience with driving data to insights.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and balance financial data for accuracy and compliance.
• Develop visual representations of analytic insights.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve processes.

Skills

Accounting principles

Data analysis

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting

Tools

PeopleSoft

Excel

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Location: Remote, prefers candidates local to Durham, NC. Open to candidates in EST/CST.

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.
• 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).

Required Skills

• 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).
• Strong understanding of Order to Cash processes.
• Experience or background in accounting, finance, contract and project accounting strongly 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.
• Highly motivated, self-starter, full of initiative, team player 5.
• Advanced PC skills in Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Strong Excel Knowledge, data manipulation, pivot tables, etc.

Preferred Skills

• Contract/project centric industry experience preferred, and life sciences a plus.
• Working knowledge of Peoplesoft/Oracle Fusion preferred.

Education Requirement

• Bachelors degree in Accounting, Information Systems or related field.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Accounting/Auditing and Finance

Industries

• Hospitals and Health Care