Senior Financial Analyst

Title: Financial Data Analyst
Location: Mountain View, CA – Hybrid 2 -3 days/week onsite
Term: long term open ended contract

Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Financial Data Analyst to join our team and play a crucial role in the development and implementation of our client's innovative Project Financial Management Platform. As a Financial Data Analyst, you will bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions, ensuring that our platform effectively supports project financial processes and delivers value to our clients. The ideal candidate will be proactive, resourceful, and detail oriented, with the ability to manage a broad range of responsibilities in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

Responsibilities :
Requirements Gathering and Analysis:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document detailed business requirements for the Project Financial Management Platform.
• Identify and document functional and non-functional requirements, including data flows, process flows, and system interfaces.
• Data Reconciliation and analysis
• Familiarity with financial month end close process
• Reconcile data from source systems against target; rootcause variances and ensure data integrity across platforms

System Design and Configuration:

• Design and configure the platform to meet business needs, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and user experience.
• Develop system specifications, data models, and user interface designs.
• Configure system settings, workflows, and security permissions.

Testing and Quality Assurance:

• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases to validate system functionality and performance.
• Identify and resolve system defects and issues.
• Conduct user acceptance testing to ensure the platform meets business requirements.

Implementation and Deployment:

• Coordinate with technical teams to deploy and implement the platform, including data migration, system integration, and user training.
• Monitor and troubleshoot system performance and address any issues.

Process Improvement and Optimization:

• Analyze current business processes and identify opportunities for improvement through automation, streamlining, or re-engineering.
• Develop and implement process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

User Support and Training:

• Provide training and support to end-users, including developing user manuals, conducting training sessions, and responding to user inquiries.
• Assist with ongoing user support activities, including troubleshooting and resolving issues.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field, required.
• Minimum of 4-5 years of proven experience as a Business Systems Analyst, Financial Analyst, Data Analyst or similar role, required.
• Understand of financial data, reports and financial statements
• Strong understanding of project financial management concepts, processes, and industry standards.
• Proficiency in requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation techniques.
• Strong experience with data reconciliation and data analysis
• Experience with system design, configuration, and implementation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong experience and knowledge of working with financial data in excel spreadsheets, expertise of excel functions and what formulas to use to get the job done
• Knowledge of project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall).
• Experience with financial systems and ERP systems is a plus.
• Demonstrated proficiency using MS Office Tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook)