Program Analyst Financials and Reconciliations
Oakland, CA - USA
Job Summary
Location: Oakland CA
Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid 12 days in office per week (onsite every Tuesday; occasional Wednesday/Thursday)
- Position Type: Contract
- Contract Duration: 19 months
- Pay Rate: $80.00$90.00 / Hour (USD)
- Travel Requirements: Not required
- Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
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The Elevate Program is a large-scale enterprise transformation initiative focused on modernizing systems processes and data capabilities across the organization. The program operates in a highly cross-functional environment spanning IT Finance PMO and Business teams with strong emphasis on financial governance resource optimization and program transparency.
The Program Controls function plays a critical role in ensuring financial discipline resource alignment and leadership visibility. This includes managing program financials overseeing vendor performance maintaining staffing plans and delivering accurate and timely reporting to support data-driven decision-making.
The Program Analyst Financials and Reconciliations (Program Controller) is responsible for end-to-end financial and resource management across the Elevate program. This role ensures accurate forecasting disciplined cost management and alignment between staffing plans financials and program delivery.
The position works closely with Finance PMO IT Business stakeholders and external vendors to maintain strong financial controls ensure compliance with internal governance and provide executive-level reporting and insights.
Key focus areas include financial planning and analysis SAP financial management (PRJ) vendor and invoice oversight time-charging governance and development of reporting solutions to support program visibility and decision-making.
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- Own and maintain the program staffing and resource plan ensuring alignment with demand roles and approved budgets
- Manage program financials including forecasting actuals tracking accruals and variance analysis
- Perform SAP PRJ financial updates ensuring accuracy cost alignment and compliance with internal controls
- Conduct time-charging reviews to validate capitalization vs. expense and ensure audit readiness
- Oversee vendor management activities including staffing alignment rate compliance invoice validation and issue resolution
- Drive timesheet governance including compliance monitoring exception handling and submission enforcement
- Develop and maintain dashboards and reports (Power BI / Excel) for financials staffing and vendor performance
- Support PMO governance processes with reporting coordination and compliance tracking
- Act as a liaison across Finance IT PMO Business teams and vendors to resolve operational and financial issues
- Provide ad-hoc analysis executive summaries and leadership reporting to support decision-making
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- Financial acumen and program/project controls background
- End-to-end financial and resource management experience
- Experience with staffing plan and resource plan development including tying staffing plans to financials (FTE staff augmentation and contracted third-party staffing)
- Experience with forecasting variance analysis (plan vs. actual) and financial reporting
- Hands-on experience with SAP (PRJ WBS ECC or similar financial modules)
- Experience managing vendors and validating invoices
- Strong Excel skills
- Ability to present financial status and improvement opportunities to executive leadership
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- Experience supporting large IT or transformation programs
- Familiarity with utility or regulated environments
- Experience with financial controls capitalization policies and audit processes
- Strong stakeholder engagement and cross-functional coordination skills
- Advanced reporting and dashboarding skills (Power BI data modeling executive reporting design)
- Experience with SharePoint (organization is transitioning resource planning into SharePoint)
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- Bachelors degree in Finance Business Accounting Information Systems or related field or equivalent experience
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- 5 years of experience in program financial management PMO or project controlling
- Large program experience (e.g. $2.5B enterprise programs) strongly preferred
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- Hybrid schedule: onsite every Tuesday; occasional Wednesday/Thursday onsite presence required
- Local candidates only
- Client will provide a laptop; however the resource should be prepared to set up via Cloud PC using a personal device initially until a laptop is arranged
- Any additional home office tools must be vendor-provided or personal
- Two-round interview process: one technical interview and one leadership interview
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- Medical Vision and Dental Insurance Plans
- 401k Retirement Fund
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This client is a major utility and energy company headquartered in Oakland CA serving millions of customers across a broad regional footprint in the western United States. The organization employs tens of thousands of professionals including program analysts systems analysts data governance specialists supply chain leads and AI solutions product owners and is currently executing one of the largest enterprise digital transformation programs in the utility sector a multi-billion-dollar SAP S/4HANA migration and modernization initiative spanning finance IT and operations.
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GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking financial services technology life sciences biotech utilities and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.
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Job Number: 26-12525 Industry: Data & Analytics
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