Job Description

Our client, a biopharmaceutical company, is seeking a Financial Analyst or Finance Specialist within their IT organization to help drive how the company operates within their Business Technology Solutions (BTS).

Hybrid Schedule: 3 days onsite / 2 days remote. The 3 days can be flexible but it's typically Tue, Wed, Thu.

Contract Duration : 6 months (potential to extend)

Top MUST HAVE Required Skills:

• Bachelor of Science / experience in pharma experience, healthcare, or in a regulated industry
• Proven experience in a similar finance reporting and analysis role for a minimum of 4 - 6 years.
• Experience using SAP for a minimum of 2 – 3 years (MUST HAVE)
• Familiarity with initiating shopping carts, looking up PO's / invoices, and ability to use different modules/be able to use a T-code and reports, extracting reports via SAP.
• Strong experience with Excel and Smartsheet (for financial project tracking).
• Proven experience in a similar analytical role supporting IT and/or business department

Additional Qualifications:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• “People person” with ability to quickly build and maintain relationships.
• Managing and tracking budgets (operations and annual capital)
• Reconcile budgets
• Supportive work - someone who is analytical, can dive deeper beyond reporting and provide recommendations when it comes to the budget
• Understand process of working with procurement team, accounting and finance teams and individuals
• Need to understand operational budgets like software licensing
• Experience working with remote teams and with vendor resources

Preferred Skills:

• Being familiar with the IT space would be helpful
• Experience using Clarity PPM (would be great to have)
• Creating extensive pivot tables - adapt to Project Management tools

Daily Breakdown:

• 30% planning (budgets for next years, forecasting)
• 70% operational (track and monitor budgets, commitments, actuals, journal entries, purchase order)

What You Will be Doing

• Manage and tracking/monitor budget types such as capital plan, functional/RTB, business cost centers, Latest-Best-Estimates (LBE) ongoing costs to support the facilitation of leadership decision-making processes via financial management reporting for project approvals and changes.
• Track approved projects and authorized amounts, ensure cost centers are reconciled, and manage project reconciliations across systems including SAP (required) and Microsoft Excel.
• Process Journal Entry (JE) requests, manage purchase orders, track and process requests for Fixed Capital Deployment (FCD) extensions, and capitalization requests.
• Coordinate with Procurement to ensure integrity in Statements of Work (SOW) and enforce CFM policy, controls, and compliance.
• Manage procurement processes, reconcile vendor spending, and resolve billing issues with Accounts Payable.
• Track Capital Expense approvals, support project close-outs and capitalization, and update Latest Business Estimates (LBE).
• Collaborate with finance teams to prepare materials for capital plan and functional/run-the-business (RTB) budgets.
• Participate in financial management optimization, including process and tool enhancements, and support pilot programs and testing.
• Facilitate monthly and ad hoc financial management review meetings and guide teams in preparing Requests for Capital Expenditure (RCEs).
• Own the portfolio across projects, provide strategic insights, and ensure accurate financial forecasts and metrics through collaboration with business units and finance personnel.

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