Finance & Contracts Manager

Responsibilities:

• Support the periodic financial tracking and reporting for the GESTC group, including:
• Prepare management status reports
  • Gather comprehensive financial knowledge and background to effectively discuss/escalate issues with respective teams and leadership
• Support client / internal billing processes
• Draft invoices
  • Follow up on aging invoices with appropriate billing contacts and report on the overall status to stakeholders
  • Review, track, submit to A/P, and report vendor invoices after verifying the commercial terms of the contracts
• Support annual planning efforts, including assisting with yearly budgeting and forecasting exercises
• Participate in periodic financial compliance review meetings
• Maintain the client contract repository and communicate with account managers to ensure contracts are renewed before they expire
• Assist with various project management office activities for the GES Technology group, including:
• Supporting special / strategic projects that may go beyond the core financial domain
• Following up with stakeholders on periodic status reports across all projects and products
• Consolidating and summarizing the reports for review with the manager
• Creating roadmap templates, consolidating them, and identifying issues / discrepancies / dependencies
• Managing and organizing the PMO document repository
• Coordinating the logistics for periodic leadership calls and follow up on action items
• Supporting executive presentation efforts (e.g., building PowerPoint slides)

Education/Background:

University graduate with a degree in Business, Finance, or a related subject and / or equivalent knowledge and expertise achieved through work experience.

Key Skills Desired
Must have:

• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience, quantitative role preferred, such as financial analyst
• Advanced knowledge of the entire Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong critical thinking skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Comfortable working in a dynamic team environment where projects, and deadlines often require multi-tasking and flexible work schedules
• Aptitude to be vocal, proactive and self-driven
• Focus on self-review and providing high quality deliverables
• Willingness to stretch when needed to meet deadlines