What are the responsibilities and job description for the Budget Analyst position at ComResource?
Job Summary:
Responsible for providing accounting support to the department by performing bookkeeping, monthly close, basic business system data entry, customer service, and general business system services. This involves coordinating several spending projects; organizing and tracking changes in allocation; forecasting; and adjusting planned work on the fly with project manager colleagues to meet spending targets.
This role involves a complex and unusual financial tracking stream. Applicants should be prepared to evaluate current processes and provide suggestions for process improvements. The majority of work is performed using MS Excel, MS Power Suite (including PowerBI), and Outlook.
Job Responsibilities:
- Perform daily updates, verifications, and corrections to automated bookkeeping of incoming and outgoing contract work assignments.
- Perform month-end financial close responsibilities such as booking accrual entries and ensuring compliance with company policies and meeting closing deadlines.
- Reconciles transactions by comparing and correcting against the general ledger.
- Provide appropriate action on delinquent accounts payable for all Content Operations projects to Global Sourcing and Partnerships management.
- Perform invoice/receipt matching on invoices prior to sending them to management for pay approval.
- Summarize and clearly report financial information to organization stakeholders in compliance with all applicable financial accounting standards.
- Create and maintain financial reports and research accounting issues as they arise, ensuring compliance with GAAP.
- Assist the business in the preparation of contract work forecasts and budgets.
- Understand upstream and downstream processes and leverage that knowledge to drive value-added change.
- Forecast and track financial results throughout the year to meet budget projections.
- Communicate effectively with internal and external customers daily to respond to inquiries or problem resolution (e.g., system lookups or hardcopy research to track activity history and resolve problems).
- Solve problems by working with other staff, by financial interpretation, and through independent research. Ensure compliance with financial controls and policies.
- Maintain documentation and procure approval needed for account corrections.
- Review current accounting procedures and establish new procedures to increase efficiency and effectiveness of accounting system
- Analyze past and current financial performance data.
Job Requirements:
- Minimum of Associate’s degree or equivalent experience in bookkeeping and/or accounting.
- Excellent interpersonal communications skills and an ability to interact effectively with staff and management.
- Working knowledge of Accounting/Bookkeeping required.
- Well-organized and detail-oriented approach
- Independent and self-motivated
- Strong problem solving and organizational skills.
- Demonstrated experience with MS Office applications (specifically Outlook and Word).
- High level of skill with MS Excel (including macros, XLOOKUP, and creation of novel calculators and reports)
- Familiarity with PowerBI, Power Platform, and MS Dataverse preferred
- Knowledge of Content Operations processing helpful
- Experience with computerized general ledger, accounts payable, variance analysis-balance sheets, and expense accounts
