Financial Operations Analyst - Infrastructure Engineering

a. Payment support: Validate invoices with internal stakeholders and reconcile and resolve disputes with external parties in a timely manner.
b. Cost accrual: Manage the end-to-end monthly, quarterly, and annual closings for infrastructure engineering team projects to guarantee the timely and effective delivery of financial reporting and initiatives.
c. Cost analysis and reports: Analyze cost variance for the infrastructure team by inputting, maintaining, and updating business information on related platforms.
- Assist with budgeting (OPEX and CAPEX) and forecasting activities, conduct budget vs. actual variance analysis, and communicate key messages to senior management teams.
- Work with large volumes of data sources, analyze discrepancies, identify root causes, find solutions, execute fixes, and implement data cleaning.
- Manage and lead multiple data projects related to financial system migration and integration.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with infrastructure stakeholders to understand broader business objectives, jointly develop processes, and offer financial guidance and best practice recommendations to facilitate process changes.
- Evaluate, plan, and implement improvements in processes, practices, and organizational effectiveness.
- Build financial models using historical data and provide forecasts based on various industry-related operating metrics, sensitivity analysis, and scenario analysis to support optimal business decision-making.
- Take charge of cost optimization and cost-saving initiatives, serve as the Project Manager for cost projects and financial operational initiatives of medium to high complexity. Gather requirements, align stakeholders, create and adhere to schedules, provide progress reports, and manage projects to completion.
- Conduct ad-hoc project analyses and respond to questions and business requirements.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- A BA/BS degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
- Ability to multitask, prioritize projects, and meet tight deadlines.
- Prior experience in the end-to-end payment to cost accrual process.
- Excellent communication skills and willingness and flexibility to work with teammates in different time zones.
- Capability to work both as an individual contributor and a team player.
- Experience using web-based systems for data entry and processing.
- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite.

Preferred Qualifications
- 3 years of experience in a high growth and fast-paced environment.
- CPA, CMA, CFA, or an equivalent certification.
- Experience in optimizing or designing new and existing processes.
- Experience in the infrastructure, technical, or finance industry is advantageous.
- A strong self-starter with the ability to fully implement mission-critical processes.
- Proficiency in SQL, Tableau, or PowerBI.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $90720 - $220400 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.