Financial Analyst III

Immediate need for a talented Financial Analyst III. This is a 12 Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Sunnyvale, CA (Hybrid).

Job
-28683

Pay Range: $50 - $60/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Requirements and Technology

Experience:

• Skills:
  
  -P2P, Vendor Management, Budget Management, Finance Operations
• 4 years of experience in a finance, accounting, procurement, or vendor operations role with a focus on transactional processing.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of accruals — able to explain and apply the difference between accrued, invoiced, and paid, and build a defensible month-end position where delivery and invoicing are out of sync.
• Solid understanding of OpEx versus Cap Ex treatment — able to reason about how a given engagement should be classified, what drives capitalization versus expensing, and when to elevate to Accounting rather than deciding alone.
• Strong cashflow literacy — understands the timing gap between contract execution, upfront payment, delivery, acceptance, invoice, and cash out, and how PO structure and payment terms drive it.
• Proficiency with financial management systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Net Suite) and MS Office Suite / Google Suite (particularly advanced Excel/Sheets skills).
• Strong understanding of fundamental accounting principles (AP/AR, general ledger) and financial workflows (PO-to-Pay).
• Comfortable working with large datasets and operating in ambiguous environments.
• Excellent organizational skills and a high degree of attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with internal and external stakeholders, including holding a firm line on data quality and approval gates Works with a sense of urgency for critical business requests.
• Customer service oriented person, focused on quality communication with a bias for action.
• Demonstrated use of AI tooling in a finance or operations context, with sound judgment about where AI output can be trusted and where it must be verified — particularly for financial figures, vendor-facing communication, and anything entering a system of record Track record of identifying inefficiencies in an existing process and driving a concrete improvement, with evidence of the impact.
• Comfortable working in spreadsheets and workflow tools at a level beyond basic data entry — building repeatable reconciliations, validations, and checks rather than re-performing them manually each cycle

Our client is a leading Tech Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions.

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