Finance Associate Sr - Contractor

Job Description

Job Description

Job Responsibilities:
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Job Description:
Job Responsibilities:
Designs and prepares timely, transparent, and succinct financial reports to enable informed decision-making by stakeholders. Collaborates with business unit leaders to produce timely and precise revenue, expense, and staffing forecasts. Develops strategic insights from data to enhance budget and forecast accuracy.
Collaborates with managers on, and may lead, annual budget cycle and continuous monthly forecasting. Contributes to and may lead development of long term strategic plans. Provides and presents business leaders and executives with key financial forecasts, metric-driven performance dashboards, and strategic business insights.
Performs on-demand analysis and generates custom reports to address specific business needs. Collaborates independently with the business on implementation and compliance of new accounting and regulatory standards. Facilitates audit, regulatory, and investor requests by providing timely and accurate information. Promptly identifies and addresses control matters; maintains sound control processes. May also contribute to risk review and challenge for assigned business.
Cultivates partnerships with colleagues across departments to ensure alignment and shared success. Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions. Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support the Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Skills:
Results Oriented
Decision Making
Accounting Research
Finance Strategy
Financial Accounting
Financial Reporting and Analysis
Account Analysis

Education/Experience:
Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience required
3+ years of relevant experience required.

Additional Job Responsibilities
09/24 - Job will be placed on hold for shortlisting Tuesday 09/29 3:00 PM EST

Position Title: Finance Associate Sr - Contractor
Reason For Open Position: Backfill

Position Location: Manager is not looking to source out of any other tech hub thats not listed below
Two Plaza 620 Liberty Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Locations By Preference: 1. Most Preferred Pittsburgh only

Work Arrangement:
5 days onsite, some flexibility could be discussed post start.
Acceptable time zone(S): EST
Schedule: M-F 8-5 EST
Ot: Minimal possibility
Travel: No
Intended Length Of Assignment: April 1, 2027
Potential for Contract Extension: Yes
This position is contract with the right to hire if a need becomes available.
Manager will only look at candidates that are open to converting to a full time employee. will not sponsor work visas if the decision is made to hire the contingent worker.

Function of the Group:
Our group is technology finance. It's focusing on a lot of budgets, budgeting, forecasting, month end close and variance analysis.
Building out business case work and purchasing capital.

Initiatives/Projects:
The primary thing they'd be assisting with is a transformative initiative in the technology line of business.
This role would be primarily supporting from a financial manager-like type of responsibility for the technology teams they represent.
Team Dynamic: Bae team is 5 analysts at similar career responsibility levels. They all handle a segment and do the budgeting/forecasting for that segment. There is a lot of cross-functional work with technology owners, project managers, business offices, on a day-to-day business case. Then they will work with the back-office accounting and finance teams more monthly.

Industry Background:
Open to any background. Manufacturing (Data center driven) or Project Management background nice to have

Role/Responsibilities:
Supporting from a financial manager-like type of responsibility for the technology teams they represent. Supporting that specific transformation initiative, but as their primary finance go to person
Business cases build out, challenges on making sure the quote ties out capital expense, vetting it from an accounting perspective and then running budgeting and forecasting as well.
This role is data center driven, so any experience there or even a manufacturing background or project management related helps.
Were building out new data centers so we need somebody that can look at a very complex project or problem, and if we're doing it the wrong way or we they can add something to it. Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to evaluate complex projects, identify inefficiencies or risks, and recommend alternative approaches to achieve better outcomes.
Need good communication skills and the ability to meet deadlines while managing tight timelines.
They will be managing a segment and expected to be the subject matter expert of the segment. Will need to explain examples like why there is a variance, or why we are accounting for something a certain way, what the impact of this project were bringing forward for approval is to the budget and the forecast.
Taking it from an idea, build into the budget you build into the forecast, then speak to maybe why it was above or below from a variance standpoint.
Ability to work with limited direction, transform ambiguous business needs into actionable financial models and business cases, and present recommendations effectively to management.

Must Have Skills:
Intermediate to advanced Excel skills and experience
Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Strong time management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and deliver high-quality work within tight timelines.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to provide timely responses, keep management informed, and proactively address issues and priorities.

Flex Skills:
Hyperion
Copilot / AI experience
PowerPoint

Soft Skills:
Excellent relationship-building and cross-functional communication skills, with experience partnering across technology, project management, and business teams.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to provide timely responses, keep management informed, and proactively address issues and priorities.
Strong time management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and deliver high-quality work within tight timelines.

Education:
BA required, MBA preferred.

Screening Questions:
Tell me about a time you supported a major transformation style initiative. How did you evaluate financial investments, measure success, and influence decision-makers when the business case faced uncertainty (Note: if you have not faced this, how would you approach) 2. A CIO believes a $20M technology initiative is strategically critical, but the financial returns are difficult to quantify. How would you approach the funding recommendation (Same note as above)

Interview Process:
1 round, approximately 30-minute panel interview.
Possible 2nd round, if needed.
Stack Ranking (Order of Preference): 1. Skills 2. Former 3. Bill Rate 4. Location

Corporate Function
Non-Technology