finance Specialist

Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

• The Financial Specialist shall be working to support the BES Support team through various weekly, monthly and annual deliverables. They shall assist in the general ledger detailed variance analysis, payroll data reconciliation, annual budget preparation and monthly financial reporting to internal customers.
• Perform monthly reconciliation between the financial system and payroll data to support updates to forecast.
• Run standardized and ad hoc reporting on a monthly and quarterly basis to share with budget owners.
• Run subledger reports out of Oracle to support the Finance team during month end close.
• Perform research and analysis of variances to plan, by reviewing invoices and other journal entries posted by the Accounting team.
• Support the Finance team with annual budget preparations and analysis.
• Document processes and procedures ensuring it complies with Company guidelines and recommend process flow improvements.
• Perform backup function especially in cases of high volume or shortage of manpower.
• Escalate issues as appropriate.
• Assist the team with ad hoc analysis and projects throughout the year as needed.
  
  

• Degree in Accounting or Finance preferred
• 1+ years work experience with evidence of increasing responsibility and scope
• Someone who has already worked in a Manila based BPO or Shared Services as a staff analyst, business analyst, or senior financial analyst.
• Knowledge of variance analysis, data mining, month end close, requesting input for financial forecasting
• Firm understanding of CAPEX versus OPEX
• Very strong Excel skills, vlookup, hlookups, if statements, nesting statements, pivot tables – can take large quantities of data often in horrible formats and transform them into meaningful data
• Knowledge of the Oracle and Hyperion systems is a plus