Finance Associate

Responsibilities:

• Work alongside Client Accounting/ Business Partnership teams to support project managers in actively managing project financial health;
• Engage with project teams, colleagues, and clients to identify and resolve issues related to project financial health;
• Support “in-flight” client projects. Provide reporting, trend analysis, compliance tracking, financial status, and forecasts.
• Engage effectively with resources at all levels within ZS and at our clients, as appropriate.
• Manage revenue recognition, completion estimates, write-offs, and margins
• Ensure project financial transactions (billing, collection, time & expenses) are completed in a timely and accurate manner
• Assisted with engagement startup (project setup) and shutdown activities (prepared a final bill for the client, closed project codes, etc.)
• Receive, interpret, and process billing instructions, following up with project teams for clarification as needed.
• Send invoices to clients through multiple channels (email, online, postal mail) as dictated by the client.
• Manage client PO’s- receipt of PO’s, communication with project teams to assign to projects.
• Maintain electronic archive of all invoices and log of invoice details.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or business required; advanced degree welcome, with a strong record of academic achievement;
• 0-3 years of financial management experience;
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook), SAP experience desirable;
• Strong analytic and critical thinking abilities;
• Effective oral and written communication skills that enable strong relationship-building and stakeholder management;
• Strong attention to detail;
• Motivated and proactive;
• Professional objectivity and judgment to know when to challenge activities;