Financial Analyst

My name is Muralidharan and I’m working with Cloud Destinations LLC as a Technical Recruiter.

Below are the job details as needed by the hiring manager. Kindly advise if you might be interested and qualified for the below opportunity and if we can discuss further on this

Position: Project Management Analyst

Duration: 6+ Months

Location: remote but must be on PST

Summary: We are looking for a PMA to help collect data from application owners, including costs associated to each application.

Job Responsibilities:

Financials:

-Perform timecard validation (weekly)

-Reconcile actuals to forecaston a weekly basis. Follow up where necessary

-Run actuals to forecast during month end

-Capture and make adjustments to forecast sheets

Vendor Management:

-Perform monthly control processes to ensure all contract resources accounted for and allocated to full capacity

-Run monthly report for resource managers to validate

-Make adjustments per requests from resource managers

Product Support:

-Run monthly operative dates from Planisware and send to PO's. Action items that need attention

-Run deliverable report out of Planisware and work with PO's to complete deliverable coming due including upload to Planisware, get approvals and close out

· Assist with the daily contract operations and provide general IT business & planning support.

· Prepare reports through gathering, analyzing, and summarizing data and information; prepares presentation materials for management reports.

· Originates contracts in the PG&E procurement system, ARIBA and enter contract financial liabilities into the contract management ATRIUM tool.

· Assist in the initiation, conducting and coordinating of contract renewal analysis for IT operations, financial reviews; and analyzing multi-year contract to ensure that costs are planned in the most efficient manner.

· Maintain annual Operational Expense budgets utilizing proper accounting/budgeting controls, enter financial data into tracking system, and compile regular and ad-hoc financial status reports.

· Monitor Purchase Orders, review contract invoices, accruals, identify disparities, and resolve issues with the vendors.

· Analyzes actual spend and forecasting to determine if/when appropriate change controls and escalation reporting to leadership.

· Provides financial analysis on portfolio cost variances for plan vs. actual and can identify inappropriate charges by resources or vendors and makes appropriate corrections in SAP.

· Leads meetings and acts as a liaison among stakeholders to coordinate, document, and schedule changes to IT contracts.

· Capture, analyze and present data to managers and directors to aid in making business decisions.

· Effectively plans and control scope of work on contract renewals; integrates all aspects, tracks and ensures that contracts origination targets are on schedule and meets the required standard.

· Develops communications needed to summarize analysis and to discuss recommendations for IT management. This may take the form of dashboards, power point decks, or summarized emails.

· Facilitates problems solving sessions and workshops with diverse set of business and technology team members.

· Proactively follows-up on issues and initiatives for senior leaders to ensure successful resolution and implementation.

· Works closely with leaders and other key stakeholders to ensure that key initiatives and activities are delivered in a timely and coordinated manner that is aligned with the goals of the organization.

· Experience with downloading and extracting data from SAP into meaningful business intelligence reports and dashboards.

· Works with IT and functional leadership to establish a variety of key business, financial and performance metrics.

Qualifications:

Minimum:

· BA/BS in Computer Science, Business, or job-related discipline or equivalent experience

· 4 years of general business experience

Desired:

· Proficient in Microsoft Office, Visio, PowerPoint, and expert level Excel skills

· Experience with structuring contract agreements

· Experience with basic financial modeling or cost management

· Experience with presenting to leadership and developing power point slides.

· Experience with Power BI a plus

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $45.00 - $50.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• FP&A: 6 years (Required)
• Microsoft Excel: 10 years (Required)
• Procurement/Ariba: 2 years (Required)
• Contract Management: 1 year (Required)
• Purchase Order: 1 year (Required)

Work Location: Remote