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Location: Western Suburbs
Required Experience: 3-4 Years
Description:
Our client is an international, multi-billion dollar corporation with over 32,000 employees worldwide. Their US headquarters are located in Chicago's western suburbs, accessible local expressways or Metra. We are currently partnering with them in their search for a Business / Financial Analyst to partner with regional locations throughout the United States in managing construction, repair, and maintenance projects to ensure corporate profitability objectives are achieved. The Business / Financial Analyst ensures accurate costing, accounting, controlling and business analysis / reporting for assigned business areas. This role requires financial analysis using SAP and Hyperion to analyze data, monthly forecasting, budgeting, and annual planning. The Business / Financial Analyst reports directly to the Controller (Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Business Analysis). Some more specific responsibilities of the Business / Financial Analyst are:
Prepare and analyze project and contract performance including variances to budget on a weekly and monthly basis. Measure and analyze business performance by region, product lines and customer segment. Assist senior management with analysis and reporting.
- Review new orders for appropriate costing. Investigate projects and contracts outside of normal costing range and resolve costing issues. Support Regional Operations with assistance regarding SAP job costing and/or contract revenue.
- Perform monthly closing procedures, including applying project burden rates and conducting project closeouts in SAP, ensuring proper revenue recognition, project costing and loss reserves (if applicable), according to corporate accounting policy.
- Maintain corporate G/L account reconciliations.
- Manage Hyperion data on a monthly basis and provide Hyperion monthly financial and management reporting to corporate senior management (North America) and Global (Finland).
- Assist with planning, budgeting and forecasting at regional, district level and branch levels.
- Assist in planning, development and implementation of process improvements. Assist with documenting internal accounting controls and procedures in accordance with the corporate financial control model.
- Maintain and update auxiliary systems and data, i.e. Hyperion platform and labor rate database, as needed.
- Perform all accounting in accordance with International Accounting Standards (IAS).
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree Preferably in Accounting
- 2+ years of accounting experience
- Working knowledge of SAP Strongly preferred
- Proficient in use of MS Excel or similar
- Experience with Hyperion Software preferred
The incumbent must possess the follow qualities:
- Ability to work under rigid time constraints to meet specific deadlines
- Interpersonal and communication skills necessary to communicate with all levels of employees
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from employees, managers, internal & external customers, and the general public
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, and percentages and to apply concepts of basic algebra
For more information or to apply directly for this position, please email your resume in MS Word format to cal@izs.com. I look forward to hearing from you.
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