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What you will do 

This new team member will join the team in driving and owning the finance operations responsibilities for project set up, maintenance, project documentation, invoicing, processing of change orders, monthly performance reporting, and control operations. This role requires not only advanced reporting and expertise with MS excel but the ability to leverage the data warehouse for ad hoc reporting, and to demonstrate advanced capabilities with reporting tools to drive innovation and efficiency improvement.  Time management, ability to multitask, and analytic skills are essential for this role. 

• Apply Finance Governance Policies on day-to-day financial activities and project updates in Certinia
• Support for Certinia tasks: setting up new projects, reporting on project / customer financials, project maintenance, and project completion
• Manage Revenue Recognition processing
• Manage Billing requests and ensure invoicing are processed in accordance to the contract terms and on time
• Ensure the integrity of the Certinia records
• Proactively make suggestions for improvements to the financial and portfolio management processes 
• Provide general business operations support to the regions.
• Review contracts to determine all financial elements of the transaction
• Validate and finalize project setup in Certinia in accordance with Finance Governance policy
• Manage new order bookings and backlogs
• Update Opportunities in Salesforce based on order booking
• Setup and track Work at Risk projects
• Review and approve the Budget Change Requests (BCRs)
• Analyze project financial or system issues and implement resolution
• Build relationships with cross-functional teams to ensure accuracy and completeness of information needed in Certinia
• Identify and drive ongoing process improvements and efficiencies
• Reconcile revenue, billing, and order attributes across ERP, Workday, and Certinia.
• Coordinate updates and fixes when items in the reconciliation items are found
• Analyze project financial or system issues and implement resolution when escalations occur
• Help drive change management through communication and training as initiatives are implemented.
• Prepare Standard Weekly/Monthly Reports across regions
• Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) and trainer for your region on assigned topics
• Provide support testing and tracking changes within Certinia

Who you’ll work with

This role will work closely with region and finance leadership.

What makes you a Qualified Candidate

• Bachelors in business, accounting, or finance
• Strong English Communication Skills (Verbal, Reading & Written)
• Ability to read, analyze and understand customer contract, corporate policies, P&L, and miscellaneous project documentation
• Strong attention to details is a must
• Advanced Excel skills
• Experience using BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau etc. is a plus
• 2-5 years of professional work experience
• Proactive and passionate: Independently capable of seeking information, solving problems, and delivering results in challenging situations
• Exceptional business acumen with the ability to understand and analyze financial data

What will you bring

• Can quickly develop technical proficiency to understand necessary system integrations from a data-dependent process perspective
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work in highly dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Results and success oriented, conveying a sense of urgency and driving issues to closure
• Ability to work with high degree of self-direction
• Work with confidential information
• Able to work well under pressure and to very tight deadlines