Senior Finance Associate - Client Accounting
ZS Associates
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work alongside Client Accounting/ Business Partnership teams to support project managers actively manage 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.
- Assist with engagement startup (project setup) and shutdown activities (prepare final bill to client, close 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 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.
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or business required, post graduate or advanced degree preferred, with a strong record of academic achievement.
- 3-5 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.
- Ability to multi-task in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment.