Finance Project Analyst
Houston, TX - USA
Job Summary
Responsibilities:
Participate in preparing monthly internal and external reporting ensuring accuracy and compliance with applicable accounting standards and company policies.
Perform financial analysis identify trends anomalies risks and opportunities and translate financial data into meaningful insights for management and operational stakeholders
Partner with Project Managers and project teams to analyze project profitability margins cost performance forecasts and financial risks and opportunities
Prepare and review month-end close entries estimates accruals reclassifications and other accounting adjustments. Research and resolve accounting discrepancies and data integrity issues including identification of root causes and implementation of corrective actions.
Participate in bid and proposal reviews providing financial analysis and assessing accounting profitability cash flow and financial risk considerations.
Apply strong technical accounting knowledge and judgment to evaluate accounting matters and ensure transactions are recorded in accordance with applicable accounting standards company policies and internal controls.
Lead and support variance analysis balance sheet reconciliations account reviews and financial investigations identifying underlying business drivers.
Assist with SOX compliance control documentation and testing audit requirements and external or regulatory reporting and compliance activities
Help drive the consistent implementation and application of financial policies accounting standards procedures and internal controls throughout the organizaion
Support asset management working capital initiatives customer collections and other activities aimed at improving cash flow and financial performance
Proactively identify opportunities to simplify standardize automate and improve financial and accounting processes. Lead or support implementation of improvements that increase efficiency strengthen controls reduce manual effort and improve data quality
Support tax reporting requirements and other statutory or regulatory requirements as needed
Work effectively across finance operations project management and other functional teams in a geographically dispersed organization.
Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance or related discipline
6-10 years of relevant Accounting and/or Finance experience
2 years of work experience with Project Accounting
Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and technical accounting principles
Strong understanding of cost accounting project accounting financial reporting internal controls and the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including the ability to develop sophisticated financial models perform large-data-set analysis and build scenario-based model
Experience working with enterprise financial systems and extracting reconciling and analyzing information from multiple data sources
Experience with project-based engineering offshore energy manufacturing or other operationally complex businesses.
Experience supporting or implementing process automation financial systems improvements or digital transformation initiatives
Familiarity with reporting under local statutory reporting requirements
Working knowledge of PSFT WDA or Oracle
International or multi-entity accounting experience