Financial Analyst

Seeking a Financial Analyst to be a liaison between IT and business unites for development, enhancement, and implementation of new and/or existing systems.

You will:

• Provide data and reporting solutions to satisfy informational and performance metrics needs for one or more business functions.
• Analyze end-to-end business processes and information needs of varying complexity
• Understand the client's current and future business environment, effectively anticipate, identify, and fully meet all business needs.
• Propose, evaluate and document alternatives that will provide the most effective solution to solve business problems including delivery of new business initiatives.
• Anticipate client concerns and questions and provide timely, professional, and client-focused communications via meetings, status reports, phone, and email and follow through with results.
• Prepare communications and make presentations on system enhancements and/or alternatives.
• Provide client support on the effective use of production systems.
• Research potential system issues in transaction processing and data quality.
• · Work with team members, supervisor, and client organizations as appropriate to ensure smooth system operations to minimize impact on business operations and enable the business to achieve results.
• Lead and/or support recovery of production system issues, including business process recovery.
• Define and document business requirements.
• Prepare functional specification documents for one or more applications or one or more system functions.
• Prepare business cases in support of business initiatives.
• Prepare technical specification documents.
• Prepare and/or review test plans and perform quality reviews on test results.
• Perform functional integration testing of transactional processing, data extracts, and reporting.
• Comply with SOX documentation and other standard process requirements as appropriate.
• Configure system parameters or soft tables to enable application functions to perform per specifications.
• Develop queries to extract data or create operational reports using production databases.
• Perform unit, string, and functional integration tests to ensure application solutions and reports satisfy defined functional and/or technical specifications.

Pay Rate: $60-62/hour on W2 basis

Start: Late-July
Duration: Two years (40 hours per week)
Location: Oakland, CA (Hybrid/mostly remote – onsite potentially once every two months)

Requirements:

• Must currently reside in Bay Area
• Bachelor's degree
• Project Management understanding, Financial Modelling, and forecasting understanding
• 7 to 10 years of experience in similar or related job functions.
• Project Management skills sufficient to coordinate multi-organizational projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated participation in projects of medium to high complexity.
• Demonstrated leadership role in medium to high complexity projects
• MBA, CPA, CMA desired
• SAP

Keywords: business analyst, data analyst, financial analyst,

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $60.00 - $62.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Financial modeling: 5 years (Preferred)
• Forecasting: 5 years (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Oakland, CA 94612 (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Oakland, CA 94612: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Oakland, CA 94612

Salary : $60 - $62