Thursday, May 24, 2012

[KITlist] CONTR: Senior Financial Analyst (Cupertino, CA)

Please direct your responses to: gjose@us-buxton.com


POSITION - Senior Financial Analyst
TYPE – CONTRACT
DURATION – 6 MONTHS +
LOCATION – CUPERTINO, CA

JOB DESCRIPTION
Responsible for the financial planning, analysis, reporting, forecasting and control activities and the actions and development of recommendations to achieve company financial objectives for Worldwide Online Sales & Service (contact centers) organization.

Business Partnering
• Business Partner to the APAC Online Sales & Service teams located in Singapore and China. Assist business teams by developing analyses, tools, processes and procedures to facilitate and monitor business initiatives.
• Participate in weekly conference calls/meetings with business partners.
• Provides strategic consultation and guidance to senior management on financial issues, business proposals, policies and practices affecting the organization.
• Manages financial planning and control, operations analysis, accounting systems, capital investments policy and audit coordination to ensure achievement of planned cost and profit objectives.

Opex Management
• Performs operating expense forecast and forecasts with management.
• Coordinate with APAC and WW Online finance and provide monthly APAC Sales & Service Opex submission. Provide monthly opex variance commentary as needed.
• Work with APAC GFSS finance to improve accuracy of accruals for monthly and quarterly close, ensuring adherence SOX requirements for substantiation of accruals.
• Review of actuals to ensure correct accounting treatment, requesting journals where material and necessary.
• Contact center opex management, including: expense report review/approval, SPIFF, and discretionary opex spends. Approval of purchase requisitions to ensure correct application of project codes and GL coding, and compliance with Indirect Procurement requirements & WW Online requirements.
• Assist the business in understanding and complying with the Corporate Procurement and SOX guidelines to minimize pre-commits and ensure processes run quickly and smoothly. Liaise with Indirect Procurement team where necessary.
• Use eApproval to approve Purchase Requisitions and employee expense reports.
• Close aged and unused purchase orders on a quarterly basis.
• Maintenance of project codes to support the tracking and analysis of Sales & Service discretionary projects.

Compensation Planning
• Provide monthly monitoring process on variable compensation achievements. Analysis and reporting of commissions earned by Telesales reps.
• Review monthly payfile to ensure quotas are in the system correctly, and investigate any anomalies. Escalate quota issues as required, and answer commission questions as they arise.

EDUCATION
BS or BA in accounting, finance or related field. MBA/CPA preferred.

EXPERIENCE
Requires 6 to 8 years of finance/accounting experience. High-tech industry or contact center experience for MNC environment preferred.

TO APPLY – PLEASE SEND YOUR RESUME TO GJOSE@US-BUXTON.COM
SUBJECT_HEADING – GJ_SFAA





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