Financial Analyst with Security Clearance

Job Title:

Financial Analyst

Location:

Lynchburg, VA
Duration: 12

Months (Contract to hire) Direct client: L3 Harris
Pay Rate $45/hr on w2 Seeking a team member who will support the Managed Services (After-Market Services) group. This individual will support the Mission Critical Communications (MCC) sector. The successful candidate will report to our Sector level Finance Director. We are looking for a candidate with 2-4 years pre-existing accounting experience, a strong accounting acumen, and demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

This is a wonderful opportunity to join an exciting finance team in an organization focused on driving business results and forecast accuracy.

Essential Functions:

• Prepare accounting requests for contract setups, renewals, revenue, and invoicing events.

• Partner with managed services team and program functions to drive execution on time-phasing service renewals, service inception dates, and periods of performance for the portfolio of contracts.

• Partner with customer service center and sales operations pertaining to forecast of expected bookings and breakdown of contract dates into the ERP system.

• Prepare contract closures in the accounting system upon end of services contracts.

• Perform month-end journal entries as needed.

• Prepare monthly financial analysis and forecasting for the portfolio.

• Support internal and external audit of related matters.

• Support preparation of annual departmental budget forecast and ongoing monthly budget-to-actual comparisons.

• Support monthly invoice reconciliation for LTE segment.

• Regular analysis over cost to actuals on managed services contracts.

• Be an integral team player meeting monthly deadlines.

• Ability to cross-collaborate as needed with other functional groups.

• Assist with Ad Hoc request and reporting as necessary.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2-4 years of prior related Finance or Accounting experience.

• 2-4 years Accounting System Experience.

• 2-4 years demonstrated proficiency in Excel (intermediate skills).
Preferred Additional

Skills:

• Working knowledge of revenue recognition and double-entry accounting.

• Experience utilizing Power BI, Snowflake, and Alteryx.

• Excellent written, verbal, and organizational skills with a keen eye on details.

• Self-motivated attitude with a strong work ethic.

• Approachable disposition with a demonstrated ability to work well within a team and cross-functionally.

• Initiative to work independently and demonstrate ownership over roles.