Sr financial analyst


**********W2 ONLY- NO C2C*************

Location: St Louis, Mo
Setting: Remote
Contract: 12 Months
Pay rate: $70+

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Must have:

* 3-5 years of experience forecasting. Preferably in a capital project management context.
* Education in accounting or finance, or 10+ years of experience as an alternative.
* Expert in MS Excel and PowerPoint.
* Experience using advanced Excel formulas, PowerBI and MS Power Automate automations preferrable.
* Experienced in managing workload and time management given Day 1 - 10 will require a large time investment of the individual, knowing the remaining weeks in the month will be considerably lighter.
* We would expect the person to balance the overall time within the month.

Responsibilities:

* Manage 20+ project work orders (WOs) and $50M in capital investments
* Work with business process specialist (BPS) to ensure WO creation
* Work with BPS to put WOs in-service in timely and accurate manner
* Monitor prior year WOs for unusual or inadvertent charges that need to be reapplied elsewhere (Journal Entries)
* Manage labor transfers from one WO to another
* Manage accruals
* Manage confidence in spend and confidence in in-service dates
* Monthly reforecast of project financials.
* Establish Cost Tracking using approved template
* Ability to develop ART annual budget (Cap and O&M) using Cost Tracking spreadsheet.
* Understand and communicate variances and spikes (monthly and YE) per PMO and Dig.

Finance cadence:

* Revise project budgets in alignment with PI and resource planning
* Meet with Digital leaders to establish and update:
* Meaningful monthly reports to management regarding the budget, actuals and forecast
* Resource allocations
* Procurement matrix and forecast payments for purchase orders (POs)
* In-service dates for each work order.
* Establish relationship with BPS and Digital Finance team. Collaborate closely.

Manage POs:

* Ensure Purchase Orders are stood up by Sourcing
* Ensure all invoices have been submitted and paid
* Meet with vendors to ensure accurate and timely accruals
* Close POs and contracts
* Manage project change requests (PCRs) for WO;
* Coordinate with Portfolio manager for increase/decrease via emerging demand process
* Manage Time keeping
* Inform team of Time Recording requirements and Software Capitalization Policy
* ensure TRIS pick list updated for FTEs (and others as appropriate) o Complete TRIS Setup/Accounting Strings

Use of toolset:

* Expert in Excel, PowerPoint. o Preference for experience with Oracle, PowerPlan, PowerBI, Primevera
* Commit to the continuous improvement of how we manage capital project finances.
* Make recommendations Challenge the status quo
* Provide ideas from past experience or industry leading ideas
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