Financial Consultant - 6 month contract

California  ‐ Onsite
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Senior Financial Consultant

Description:

Support in the areas of budgeting, forecasting, reporting, strategic planning and accounting. The role requires ability to work with diverse groups of clients across the organization.

The Sr. Financial Consultant must be able to develop, interpret, and implement financial concepts for financial planning and control, and able to perform technical analysis to determine present and future financial performance.

Manage budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning and reporting.

Provides project, service line or product line management, management consulting, and analytical decision support services or technical expertise for a broad array of financial and operational issues.

Responsible for more complex multifaceted projects and analyses across disciplines and functional areas.

Regularly contributes to the development of new financial analysis reports, concepts, techniques, and standards.

Assess financial processes and financial requirements in order to establish consistent and standardized financial policies, procedures, reports and tools.

Serve as a Strategic thought partner to assist in identifying and quantifying opportunities within their business.

Perform detailed analytics to identify key trends as well as areas of opportunities and risk.

Top Daily Responsibilities:
- Perform moderately complex special projects
- Integrate data from multiple sources, and determine adequacy for financial reporting requirements for GAAP, Department of Insurance and Department of Managed Health Care
- Research solutions for moderate to difficult accounting issues
- Translate data into accurate financial and management report
- Working with GAAP, internal controls and accounting procedures

Requirements:

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Ability to think strategically

Ability to work with diverse groups of internal clients - including non-financial audiences. Technical knowledge of Accounting.

Strong written and oral communication skills - ability to clearly articulate and summarize information to effectively communicate to diverse audiences including senior leaders across the organization.

Extensive knowledge of several or all of the following: general finance theories and methodologies, discounted cash flow analysis, cost/benefit analysis, feasibility studies, large scale business planning and financial modelling.

Able to work independently with minimal day-to-day supervision or direction.

Process oriented.

Self initiator with ability to work with limited supervision.

Lead projects of moderate to complex scope.

Able to work under tight deadline pressures.

Strong Excel skills.

Working knowledge of Databases inclusive of Access.
- Six (6) + years of related experience in financial analysis, preparing financial reports, statements, projections and budgeting
- Aptitude for numbers, organizational skills and strong attention to details
- Experience with full suite of MS Office applications, especially Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and Visio
- Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills
- Experience with Access database a plus
- PeopleSoft or other ERP experience
- Experience working in a health care setting preferred
- Flexibility to perform variety of detailed accounting functions and meet established deadlines
- Ability to build good internal relationships within the department organization, across department lines and with external third parties
- Ability to successfully navigate a Matrix organization

Bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in finance or accounting required, CPA/MBA preferred.
Financial integrity through advanced knowledge of accounting & finance policies, practices, and systems;

Leadership, project management, process improvement, decision making; strategic visioning.

Tactful and good collaborative skills.

Start date
March 2015
Duration
6 months
From
Enclipse Corp.
Published at
21.02.2015
Project ID:
855152
Contract type
Freelance
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