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Pay Range: $30 to $35 an hour. 

Client Industry: Pharmaceutical

Job Mode: Hybrid – Monday & Friday Remote; Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday Onsite. (Flexibility is required to work onsite on Mondays or Fridays when business needs, projects, or deadlines require.)

Duration: 12 Months Contract (Possibility of Extension based on business needs and performance)

Job Summary:

• This position supports a Finance team within a large enterprise environment by driving financial process improvements, planning activities, reporting, and ad hoc financial analysis.
• The role will focus on improving the structure, efficiency, and automation of financial planning and consolidation files.
• The position will support financial planning cycles, budget tracking, monthly close activities, variance analysis, and management reporting.
• The ideal candidate will have strong financial and analytical capabilities along with advanced proficiency in Excel, Power BI, Power Query, SAP BPC, and ERP systems.
• Strong organizational, communication, problem solving, and business partnership skills are essential for success in this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist Finance leadership with improving the structure, efficiency, and automation of financial planning and consolidation files.
• Review financial working papers and identify opportunities to remove, modify, standardize, or add content.
• Establish standardized spending categories and frameworks across financial working files.
• Support automation and refresh processes for ERP system actuals within financial planning files.
• Develop and improve processes for landing, integrating, and refreshing financial data.
• Assist with financial planning, Latest Best Estimate, and Long Range Planning cycles using SAP BPC.
• Support promotional, marketing, and sales force budget tracking and analysis.
• Analyze monthly actual results against financial plans and forecasts to identify risks, variances, and opportunities.
• Assist with monthly close activities, including headcount reporting and variance analysis.
• Prepare monthly management reporting packages and highlight key financial trends, issues, risks, and opportunities.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis and reporting as required.
• Provide backup support and coverage for Finance team members when needed.
• Support ongoing financial process improvement and automation initiatives.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 4 or more years of Finance or Accounting experience.
• Strong proficiency in Excel, Power BI, and Power Query.
• Strong understanding and experience with SAP BPC and ERP systems.
• Experience supporting financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, or consolidation activities.
• Experience performing variance analysis and analyzing actual results against financial plans or forecasts.
• Strong financial, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex financial information clearly.
• Strong business partnership and cross functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience automating Excel based financial reporting or planning processes.
• Advanced Power BI dashboard development experience.
• Experience with financial data automation and integration.
• Experience supporting management reporting and executive level financial presentations.
• Experience with promotional, marketing, or sales force budget management.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, (paid time , paid sick and safe time , hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, paid holidays annually - AS Applicable)