Biling Solutions Analyst

Southern Company • Atlanta, GA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for preparing and analyzing business/financial-related transactions to ensure that the data used for invoice approval and reporting is accurate. The Business Analyst will also work to ensure quantities and information billed align with Key Metrics and department reports produced by our systems. In addition, this position will include designing and preparing financial/ business reports as required along with monitoring daily file runs and addressing internal customer support needs from our 3rd party bill delivery vendors.

Requirements

• BS/BA in Business, or equivalent academic education; High School Diploma
• Keen attention to details and effective organizational skills
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks to meet deadlines
• Ability to perform at high levels in a fast-paced ever-changing work environment and successfully adapt to changing priorities and work demands
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to anticipate work needs and follow through with minimum direction, follow up on own initiative
• Exercise required degree of tact and diplomacy when dealing with others and in handling sensitive issues
• Ability to handle multiple projects with changing priorities
• Ability to work independently yet keep management informed as appropriate
• Intermediate proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong analytical skills

Responsibilities

• Review and workflow invoices/ transactions for reasonableness
• Prepare data for accruals and journal entries submitted by Plant Accounting team for month end close
• Support and perform monthly review of financial matters and trends with Bill Solution Manager monthly
• Reconcile unbalanced files/ records between our internal reports and databases
• Prepare standard and non-standard reports as needed for financial and trend reporting
• Participate in routine performance calls with 3rd party bill delivery vendors as scheduled
• Analyze daily transactions from the billing system to ensure data integrity and alignment will service vendor reports billed
• Recognize discrepancies and investigate issues for reasonableness in a timely fashion. Must be able to explain what happened and elaborate corrective action is needed.
• Work with Billing Team, Service Vendor, and IT to resolve issues
• Provide information to internal and external team members as required
• Assist others in the department with questions as they arise
• Fosters relationships with managers, peers, customers and is a team player
• Communicates effectively with all levels of business
• Monitors business outcomes and work with business leaders to achieve desired results
• Creates and identifies processes for efficiencies/ process improvements

Benefits

• competitive base salary
• annual incentive awards for eligible employees
• health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being
• additional compensation, such as an incentive program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level