Financial Analyst-Contracts

JOB PURPOSE

The Financial Analyst is the key finance support for the finance team. This is a challenging and rewarding role which requires strong business acumen, excellent communication skills, and a roll-up-your-sleeves attitude.

JOB SUMMARY

The primary responsibilities of this role include a variety of finance tasks for our Workforce and Economic Development practice area companies. These tasks include, and not limited to preparation of the annual budget, and the following monthly actual vs. budget variance analyses, developing budgets for individual contracts, as well as tracking the financial performance of all contracts and programs of the select companies. This role relies on exceptional communication skills with internal and external stakeholders, ability to work independently with set goals, and being organized with multiple tasks to prioritize.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1.

Leads preparations of budgets, budget templates, reports, variance analyses, as well as support in the development processes for budget preparation, results analysis, and reporting function.

2.

Develops excellent understanding of business functions of the companies responsible for and makes suggestions based on data and financial insights.

3.

Develops a working relationship with directors, managers, and other key stakeholders and serves as a first point of contact for any questions related to budgeting, analysis, and forecasting.

4.

Serves as a practice area expert, develop reports, dashboards, and key pieces of analyses for given practice areas, contracts, programs, and lines of business. Maintains industry knowledge related to the assigned practice areas.

5.

Constantly looks for areas of improvement based on data and business insights and provides recommendations to internal and external stakeholders.

6.

Understands key financial and management accounting principles, can apply them in practice, and explain them to non-technical audiences.

7.

Uses advanced Excel skills (such as Index/Match, Vlookup/Xlookup, Filtering, Pivot tables, Sum-Ifs, Nested Ifs, macros) daily.

NOTE

The employer reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position.

QUALIFICATIONS

Job qualifications are stated in the Essential Functions of the job description. An employee must be able to accomplish the Essential Functions to be competent in the job. Other special requirements are noted below.

Education

Bachelor’s (BA or BS) in Finance or related field

Job Experience

3+ or more years of experience

• Strong knowledge of financial analytics, budgeting, and reporting.
• Background in accounting and finance.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and work additional hours during peak sessions.
• Ability to make suggestions to management based on analysis.
• Ability to work independently or an equivalent combination of related education and experience.

Software Skills

• utilizing HCM Oracle a plus
• MS Excel and PowerPoint including Macros, Pivot tables, and vlookups/index-match.
• Accounting, audit, and financial statement analysis.

Other Skills

The Fedcap Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We are an EEO employer committed to diversity, M/F/D/V.