Client Financial Management

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Role and Responsibilities

Job Summary

• Support CFM lead for Client Accounts/Engagements to ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP, forecasting accuracy and assist to drive profitability. Scope includes financial reporting, trend and variance analysis to improve forecasting accuracy, tracking against key client/engagement metrics, supporting internal management reviews and profitability initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Compliance:

  • Ensure engagement-level U.S. GAAP and local statutory compliance, quality and integrity of engagement financial records

• Forecasting and Profitability:

  • Monitor engagement financial status and costs, perform financial forecasting and analysis, and produce financial reports

  • Manage engagement financial records, as necessary, by understanding, explaining, and resolving major discrepancies that occur on the ledgers

  • Secure agreement on budgets, and on targets for KPI’s for financial reporting

  • Develop and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) and engagement metrics, lead monthly financial reviews with client/engagement leads and advise management in decision making

  • Assist to drive profitability initiatives

  • Execute working capital management by ensuring client agreement to bill, and establishing and implementing appropriate debt follow-up

  • Estimate inventory and receivables reserve requirements for engagement(s), monitor adequacy of inventory & receivables, perform asset management of all inventory & receivables, and explain anomalies

  • Prepare engagement financials for internal management reviews

  • Provide support in opportunity development by reviewing pricings

  • Work closely with Client/Engagement leads, Client Group and Services Finance Leads (or equivalent), other Finance Operations executives (statutory accounting, Treasury)

Relationships

• Reports to: CFM Leads/Supervisors

• Supports: Market Unit CFO, Client Group and Services Finance Leads, Commercial Directors, Client/Engagement Leads

Qualifications and Skills Required

Qualifications

• Education: Undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in Finance or Accounting, ACCA

• Work Experience: preferably >2 years of relevant work experience

Skills Required

• Strong analytical skills

• Strong interpersonal and customer service skills

• Good oral and written communication skills

• Good time management and multi-tasking skills

• Ability to work independently

• Attention to detail

• PC literate (e.g., working knowledge of MS Office Programs)

You will also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

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