Financial Operations Manager

The Financial Operations Manager provides financial budgeting, forecasting, and reporting support for a business unit or department and analyzes budgets with insight into business changes. Prepares, consolidates, and reports on revenue and/or expenditures. Manages overall financial operations and financial planning & analysis, serves as a liaison in the procurement process, and may manage the execution of contracts and ensure compliance with contract requirements. Collaborates with management to identify opportunities to streamline finance operation processes and develops new procedures that support the business unit/department.

Essential Job Responsibilities:
1. Prepares, consolidates, and reports on annual operating, salary, and capital budgets. Serves as a liaison to management for monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial statements.
2. Summarizes the financial status of the business unit or department. Identifies specific causes of significant variances between the year-to-date budget and year-to-date actuals.
3. Conducts multi-year financial planning and generates financial forecasts and budgets driven by identifying key assumptions and dependencies. Analyzes variances to forecasts and budgets with insight into business changes and outlook. Collaborates with other business units/departments and organizational finance teams to manage forecasting and other financial and operations functions.
4. Improves business performance by analyzing both operational and financial data. Generates forecasts and budgets. Analyzes trends in revenues, expenses, and other areas of business.
5. Compiles and reviews departmental budgets, taking into consideration actual performance, previous expenditures, and estimated expenses and income. Reviews departmental expenditures to ensure compliance with budget allocations. Maintains accurate spending records and establishes measures for budgetary control.
6. Provides oversight or executes processes and/or systems that support financial operations.
7. Processes and prepares accounting entries. Reviews and audits financial statements and reports. Ensures all calculations and data entries are correct. Reconciles general ledger accounts for discrepancies and identifies errors.
8. Responds to internal client inquiries on financial systems, policies, and procedures. Conducts financial training to address needs.

Skills:
- 5-7+ years experience in Finance
- Must have financial budgeting, forecasting, and reporting support experience
- SOW experience is a plus
- Experience with PeopleSoft is a plus
- Must have advanced Excel experience
- Experience in Microsoft collaboration tools is a plus

- 3 months with the opportunity to extend and could be hired
- Candidates can be fully remote, but will work EST hours

For consideration, please submit your resume as a MS Word attachment to The Consortium "Combining Talent with Technology" ;/p>