Financial Analyst II

Children's Network of Hillsborough•Egypt Lake-Leto, FL

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Assisting the Senior Director of Finance or designee in analyzing the financial performance and status of all contracts as it relates to budgets, billings, modifications, monitoring, and forecasting, and recommending strategies and/or process improvements where appropriate. The Financial Analyst works with internal and external staff to provide customer service support and assist in providing requested financial data.

Requirements

Three to five years of finance experience; gathering, analyzing, presenting and reporting financial information to internal leaders.
The Financial Analyst will possess personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and an unwavering commitment to Children’s Network of Hillsborough, LLC’s mission; a proactive, hands-on strategic thinker who will own, in partnership with the Director of Finance, the responsibility for finance.
Bachelor’s degree, from an accredited college or university, in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration
The Financial Analyst must be able to operate standard modern office machinery, including fax, telephone, calculator, computer, scanner, printer, copier and mail machine; must have excellent word processing skills; must be competent with Microsoft Office Suite programs, including Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, Publisher and Outlook.
Possess competency with basic e-mail protocol; excellent written and oral communication skills; effective listening skills; ability to work as a team member, and the ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
The Financial Analyst must possess a general understanding of accounting, critical thinking skills, and out-of-the box thinking.
Must possess excellent organizational skills and abide by the highest standards of confidentiality.
Valid driver’s license, and clean driver’s license check required, with proof of insurance
Criminal background screening (fingerprinting) (Local Law Enforcement and FBI/FDLE)
Drug Screening is a requirement
The Financial Analyst must possess the ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations; to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public and to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers.
The Financial Analyst must possess ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, proportions, percentages, whole numbers, fractions, decimals, ratios, order of operations, exponents and to apply concepts of basic algebra.
The knowledge of general accounting principles is essential.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form; ability to be proactive, as well as handle problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations; ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Responsibilities

Assists the Director of Finance in analyzing actual performance to operating plan and budget; develop reports and interpret the results
Assist leadership in the annual budgeting and planning process, forecasting, and variance analysis
Assist with sub-contractor fiscal monitoring activity to include providing training/feedback on fiscal templates.
Analyzes subcontracted providers budgets, expenditure reports and spending plan; ensure compliance to sub-contract, state and federal regulations; prepare written observations and recommendations; recommend strategies to leadership
Assists in the preparation of budgets for project/program and grants and proposals, rate studies and cost models; ensures financial reporting and fiscal contract compliance are met for each contract
Reconcile and close out grants/contracts at termination
Works with internal staff in developing process procedures that document workflows from start to end to verify that revenue streams are maximized
Conduct financial analysis and special reports as assigned by the Director of Finance
Timely file required contractual fiscal deliverables.
Other duties may be assigned as special projects may be requested.