Sr Financial Analyst (Capital Projects)
**********W2 ONLY- NO C2C*************
Location: St Louis, Mo
Setting: Remote
Contract: 12 Months
Pay rate: $70+
Must have:
- 3-5 years of experience forecasting. Preferably in a capital project management context.
- Education in accounting or finance, or 10+ years of experience as an alternative.
- Expert in MS Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience using advanced Excel formulas, PowerBI and MS Power Automate automations preferrable.
- Experienced in managing workload and time management given Day 1 – 10 will require a large time investment of the individual, knowing the remaining weeks in the month will be considerably lighter.
- We would expect the person to balance the overall time within the month.
Responsibilities:
- Manage 20+ project work orders (WOs) and $50M in capital investments
- Work with business process specialist (BPS) to ensure WO creation
- Work with BPS to put WOs in-service in timely and accurate manner
- Monitor prior year WOs for unusual or inadvertent charges that need to be reapplied elsewhere (Journal Entries)
- Manage labor transfers from one WO to another
- Manage accruals
- Manage confidence in spend and confidence in in-service dates
- Monthly reforecast of project financials.
- Establish Cost Tracking using approved template
- Ability to develop ART annual budget (Cap and O&M) using Cost Tracking spreadsheet.
- Understand and communicate variances and spikes (monthly and YE) per PMO and Dig.
Finance cadence:
- Revise project budgets in alignment with PI and resource planning
- Meet with Digital leaders to establish and update:
- Meaningful monthly reports to management regarding the budget, actuals and forecast
- Resource allocations
- Procurement matrix and forecast payments for purchase orders (POs)
- In-service dates for each work order.
- Establish relationship with BPS and Digital Finance team. Collaborate closely.
Manage POs:
- Ensure Purchase Orders are stood up by Sourcing
- Ensure all invoices have been submitted and paid
- Meet with vendors to ensure accurate and timely accruals
- Close POs and contracts
- Manage project change requests (PCRs) for WO;
- Coordinate with Portfolio manager for increase/decrease via emerging demand process
- Manage Time keeping
- Inform team of Time Recording requirements and Software Capitalization Policy
- ensure TRIS pick list updated for FTEs (and others as appropriate) o Complete TRIS Setup/Accounting Strings
Use of toolset:
- Expert in Excel, PowerPoint. o Preference for experience with Oracle, PowerPlan, PowerBI, Primevera
- Commit to the continuous improvement of how we manage capital project finances.
- Make recommendations Challenge the status quo
- Provide ideas from past experience or industry leading ideas
