Financial Analyst

Overview

The organization is seeking a Finance Analyst to support financial analysis and transaction work for the Enterprise Laboratory Instrument Services (ELIS) program. This role includes billing preparation, cost analysis, spend reporting, accrual work, and support for the monthly close to ensure program numbers are defensible.

This is a remote role reporting to the Manager, Program Finance. The position works closely with Accounts Payable Coordinators, the Program Analyst, and Site Operations Managers.

Responsibilities

Billing support

• Prepare the monthly billing file against the contractual pricing structure, including headcount lines, rate lines, and pass-through.
• Verify each billed line traces to a contractual basis and query any line that does not before issuing.
• Prepare supporting details for client billing queries and resolve them with evidence.
• Track billed versus contracted headcount and flag divergence.

Cost and spend analysis

• Analyze cost by site, region, service line, and cost type, and explain movement.
• Analyze third-party spend against contract and entitlement position with Sourcing and Payments.
• Produce site-level budget versus actual reporting in a format usable by sites.
• Support analysis behind conversion, capacity, and headcount decisions using real loaded cost.

Close and reconciliation

• Prepare accruals, prepayments, and journal support for the monthly close.
• Reconcile program accounts to the general ledger and investigate differences.
• Reconcile open purchase orders and commitment position with the Accounts Payable Coordinators.
• Maintain the documented calculation method behind each recurring report.

Reporting integrity

• State the basis of any figure produced, including the period, source, and any adjustment applied.
• Support internal and client audits with traceable work.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in financial analysis, management accounting, billing, or a comparable finance role.
• Demonstrated experience preparing billing against a contract, including checking the contractual basis of a billed line.
• Experience with accruals, reconciliation, and monthly close support.
• Strong spreadsheet skills, including pivot, lookup, and reconciliation techniques.
• Experience with an enterprise resource planning and reporting environment.
• Demonstrated willingness to query a number rather than process it.
• Experience in a services, outsourcing, or regulated technical service environment preferred.

Education / Special Training

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or business preferred. Equivalent experience considered.
• Training in GxP, data integrity, and financial control provided or required.
• Financial system and CMMS training provided after hire.

Required Competencies

• Accuracy: Catches billing errors before clients do.
• Traceability: States the basis of every figure produced.
• Curiosity: Queries a number that looks wrong rather than reformatting.
• Practicality: Provides sites with numbers they can act on and explains the drivers.
• Follow-through: Closes reconciliation differences rather than carrying them.
• Communication: Explains financial positions to people who do not work in finance.
• Integrity: Admits mistakes, is direct and truthful, and acts in the best interest of clients and employees.

Success Measures

• Billing file accuracy, measured as client queries and credits raised.
• Billed lines are traceable to a contractual basis.
• Close deliverables completed on schedule.
• Reconciliation differences investigated and closed.
• Site-level budget versus actual reporting delivered and used.
• Figures reconciled across reports with no conflicting answers published.
• Cost analysis supports conversion and capacity decisions.
• Audit outcomes on financial working.

Location

• Remote, office-based work.
• No routine client site presence. Where a site visit is required, presence in active laboratory environments with required personal protective equipment.
• Travel approximately 5 percent for training and program meetings.

Compensation & Benefits

• Not specified in the provided job description.

Classification

• FLSA: Exempt

Safety Requirements

• Abide by and follow safety policies, procedures, and injury and illness prevention expectations.
• Maintain a safe working environment for self and others when visiting customer sites, laboratories, offices, or operational environments.
• Follow applicable customer site safety requirements, OSHA guidelines, and laboratory or facility-specific procedures as required.
• Complete required safety training assignments on time.

Physical Requirements

• Remote, office-based work.

Additional Information

• This position description does not list every activity, duty, and responsibility of the position and may be altered by the organization at any time.
• At-will employment. This does not act as a contract of employment.
• Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO): The organization provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics and complies with applicable federal, state, and local nondiscrimination laws.