Below are the 4 Financial Analysts & 5 AP/Accounting Analysts with multiple systems/technical expertise. The Thor Group® provides financial analysts and AP/accounting analysts with your systems, software & industry experience on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this financial analyst who worked in business services, pharmaceutical and energy industries, as well as proficient in SAP Business Planning System, SAP R/3 and SAP Business Warehouse? Technical competencies involve SAP Business Planning System, SAP R/3, SAP Business Warehouse, QuickBooks Pro, Hyperion and Cognos. Educational attainment includes Bachelor of Science in Accounting.

Important contributions of this financial analyst included uploading and reviewing approved budget/forecast data into SAP Business Planning System, as well as analyzing the IT utility and maintenance expenses monthly. Tasks covered adjusting accruals to maintain budget and analyzing intercompany charges for IT costs related to services provided and received. Journal entry corrections were prepared in SAP for monthly financial statements. Skills brought to the table included working with finance and IT departments on projects related to improving reporting, in addition to monitoring and communicating the progress of reporting issues and following through to problem resolution. Performing testing of software in development through migration into production was efficiently handled.

Key roles in another job involved preparing accruals and journal entry corrections for monthly financial statements and performing monthly financial reviews of department budgets with management to ensure targets were met. One of the duties consisted of working with department managers during budget or forecasts to review and analyze their cost projections. The job covered working with external auditors during periodic reviews and interacting with vendors, in addition to uploading and reviewing the budget/forecast data into SAP Business Planning System and Executive Dashboard to ensure accuracy of data and that the target was met.

How can a senior financial analyst with experience working in manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries help your organization? Educational background is composed of Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering and Master of Business Administration. Technical proficiencies involve JD Edwards, Oracle, Hyperion, SAP, BI, COGNOS and TM1. Core competencies involve Enterprise Project Management, Financial Planning and Analysis, Manufacturing / Cost Accounting, Trial Balance / General Ledger, CAPEX and OPEX Budgets, Revenue Recognition ASC606 and Project Analysis / Reporting.

Working with challenging issues such as supporting the reconciliation of multi-plant finished goods inventories negatively impacted from launch of SAP have vetted this specialist’s work experience. As a senior financial analyst in a manufacturing company, has monitored and facilitated correction of outbound warehouse shipments with errors blocking invoicing. This professional has posted daily goods receipt of production shipped to a warehouse.

With a “can do approach” in the area of providing management accounting and reporting services for all North American manufacturing plants have been career objectives. Serving in a pharmaceutical company as a senior financial analyst, has prepared monthly financial statements, profit and loss, balance sheet analysis, and miscellaneous KPI operational performance analysis and reporting. This specialist has identified business drivers, investigated variances, and provided meaningful commentary for management. Furthermore, has utilized Excel extensively including Pivot Tables and V Lookups, SAP, COGNOS, and JD Edwards.

How can your organization gain an advantage with the help of a financial analyst who is skilled in Epicor, SAP and PeopleSoft with background working in financial services, transportation and banking industries? Technical competencies involve Epicor, SAP, PeopleSoft, ADP, Hyperion Financial Management, Workday, Oracle, Essbase, Rumba, BusinessObjects and SharePoint. Educational attainment includes Bachelor of Business Administration in CIS, minor in Finance.

Main functions of this financial analyst included performing monthly closing support including reconciliation of profit/loss and balance sheet accounts, as well as preparing month-over-month combined financial statements with variance analysis for management closing meeting. Reconciling all payroll accounts along with general ledger accounts for the America region on a monthly basis, supporting the team with the monthly closing of US books and recording under the US GAAP were all part of the duties competently performed on an ongoing basis. This individual validated Epicor trial balance versus SAP trial balance for 67 entities and mapped Epicor account string into SAP account string (GL account, business area, cost center and entity code by using Vlookup and pivot table).

Skills consisted of assisting with the monthly close process by posting all entries in advance of A/P close deadline then completing an analysis of unprocessed invoices and expenses for accrual. Duties involved posting journal entries (over 2,000 line items) for accrued expense and payroll into SAP system by using Zload and processing FED wires for payroll tax payments and brokerage investment accounts. Other tasks included reviewing and approving A/P invoices in order to track discrepancies between forecasted budgets or actual costs.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ a senior financial analyst who worked extensively in a general hospital? Educational background involves BS in Finance and BA in Economics. Skills summary is composed of Oracle, Cognos, SQL, Hyperion, Tableau and SAP. Areas of expertise consist of Fixed Assets, Month End Close, Budgeting and Forecasting, Cost Accounting and Data Analysis.

Serving in a general hospital as a senior financial analyst, has performed source system data analysis, identification of business rules, data elements, and coding errors into the data warehouse. Some of the tasks were performing special analysis on utilization and cost accounting, revenue data, statistical analysis, and productivity. Understanding and developing queries using different systems for supporting finance/accounting management reporting were also some of the duties carried out. This analyst also helped develop and maintain the financial reports to clearly communicate actual results, forecast, performance, and variance to plan, as well as assisted with month end close process such as bank reconciliation and general ledger. Furthermore, has reconciled year-end budget surplus and provided recommendation.

As a senior IT financial analyst, has managed forecast, month end close processes, as well as provided high quality analysis for cost reduction initiatives and identified new savings opportunities including spending, headcount, and capital bridges. Part of the job was to manage annual budgeting and monthly forecasting process as well as use operating models to ensure compliance with company’s financial goals and cash flow to maintain expenditure controls.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this accounts payable analyst who is proficient in JD Edwards and SAP with experience in nonprofit, marketing and manufacturing industries? Technical competencies involve JD Edwards, SAP and Client/Server Systems.

Important tasks of this accounts payable analyst included applying knowledge of JD Edwards software and auditing invoices and expense report. The job entailed entering volunteer expense reports and researching duplicate payments. Responsibilities involved working closely with vendors to identify and resolve invoicing problems/issues and payment issues. Customer support (800 in number) was provided which included assisting employees with invoicing and expense reports with their questions regarding entry and payment.

Key roles involved administering logistic and travel invoices as well as managing an extremely high volume entry of invoices. The manual upload of logistic invoices was completed, along with monitoring the approval route.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ an A/P analyst with work experience in banking, beverage and manufacturing industries? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Business Administration-Accounting and Master of Business Administration- Accounting. Professional certifications consist of APPM Accredited Procure-To-Pay-Manager and Executive Graduate Certificate in Accounting. Core competencies involve SAP, Ariba, Oracle11i and EDI Systems.

Serving in a bank as an AP analyst, provided support and guidance to Sourcing/Procurement partners that assisted in ensuring adherence to policies, procedures, and processes. Some of the tasks were identifying occurring issues with department and implementing controls in place around invoicing, as well as operating as the organization’s Procure- To-Pay expert to ensure that contract and sourcing strategies are utilized. Also, managed the sourcing through the P2P process and acted as a primary liaison between the offshore team and the LOBs to ensure invoice compliance. Additionally, supported Sourcing/Procurement partners to determine the best options for mapping contract to invoice.

As a project analyst in a beverage company, tracked specific claims for a $14M project by utilizing daily reports generated via SAP. This specialist ensured all supporting documentation obtained from Customer, Carriers, or from Customer’s Web Portals are attached to the discrepancy. Additional responsibilities were submitting credit/debit adjustment request via SAP-IC web tool, as well as updating and noting account status with appropriate reason codes.

What can a senior accounting analyst with work background in chemical, insurance and professional services industries, as well as skilled in PeopleSoft, SAP and JD Edwards bring to your organization? Technical specializations involve PeopleSoft, SAP, JD Edwards, MS Dynamics (GP, Solomon) and Hyperion Essbase. Educational background includes Bachelor of Science in Accountancy.

Skills by this senior accounting analyst involved rolling forward deferred acquisition cost (DAC) account balances at the treaty level for all segments/business units to assess FAS 97 capitalization/ amortization of commissions/expenses, modco reserves, shadow DAC (true-up of unrealized gains-losses), and newly purchased DAC for continuing operations. Duties covered analyzing intercompany retrocession payables and receivables, as well as providing flux analysis of balance sheet accounts. This individual facilitated consolidated trial balance for North American segment; reconciled Hyperion Essbase net earnings reports to nVision (PeopleSoft) Financial Statements; prepared consolidated earnings package (budget-to-actual) for review or approval by corporate VPs and the CEO. Accomplishments consisted of partnering with internal auditors to reduce SOX deficiencies by 90% and overseeing $95M clean-up of pre-conversion contributions & withdrawals accounts to maintain stand-alone accounting at the treaty level for all business units. Key analytic and decision support was provided to corporate finance in preparation of 10-Q and 10-K financials.

Other jobs consisted of analyzing and reporting on variances of actual versus budget for sales, cost of goods sold and other income/expense. Tasks covered producing monthly management reports utilizing Oracle-PeopleSoft, Access, BusinessObjects and Hyperion Essbase, in addition to preparing quarterly affiliate audit package for review and sign-off by the AVP of operations.

Could your organization use an accounting analyst who is experienced in aerospace, technology and manufacturing industries, as well as proficient in SAP? Technical proficiencies cover SAP and Baan. Educational background includes Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.

One of the key roles of this accounting analyst included supporting several government programs of land vehicles and autonomous unmanned systems. This individual worked with mechanical engineers regarding data setup in SAP covering master scheduling, material master creation & maintenance, production control, MRP planning, capacity planning, system errors, cycle counting and support to meet deadlines impacting customer deliveries. Meeting with suppliers either in-house or at supplier’s facilities was done to discuss current requirements, future requirements, changes to schedules, manufacturing issues/late deliveries and new business. Business management was supported with internal/ external audits and contract close outs. Tasks consisted of participating in meetings with government customers for quarterly reviews, supporting ERP SAP teams on upgrades, writing scripts, testing of upgrades and training new employees.

Another job consisted of supporting the following operational sectors/ departments: technology services & aerospace systems accounts payable, business management, cash management, legal department, MRP, operations planning, procurement, production, QA, tax revenue, warehouse, sector system management and 1ERP management. Aside from analyzing material costs and corrections, general ledger reconciliations (month-end & yearend) were carried out. Inventory cost analysis, corrections and JV were processed. Functions involved ensuring material master’s data integrity and corrections, metrics reporting, problem solving, ERP data cleansing, price variance resolutions and processing cost corrections. The resolution of GR/IR variances and purchase order data corrections was completed.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this accounting analyst who worked in marketing and security services industries? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Arts in Finance. Technical skills include NetSuite, QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 12.0, Great Plains and Solomon.

Contributed to the organization’s success by using NetSuite and Excel to run reports so major clients can be billed on a weekly basis. As an accounting analyst in a promotional marketing company, has prevented fraud by using NetSuite on a daily basis to check for fraudulent orders placed by credit cards. Key duties involved posting checking account transactions and reconciling the checking account daily to have an accurate view of available cash, as well as running AR aging report weekly and contacting clients with overdue balances to make sure that clients were paying. When doing business with international companies, computed the proper conversion rates, posted journal entries to adjust the general ledger in QuickBooks, as well as updated customers’ and vendors’ information in QuickBooks. Also, has paid credit cards on time to make sure the company was not billed fees and have an available balance for more transactions.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by processing payroll for the entire company using Paychex. Serving in a security services provider as a staff accountant, conducted updates in Paychex for new, current, and terminated employees. Additional responsibilities were collecting and tracking hours, commissions, bonuses, and wages for all employees. Part of the job was to break down the payroll by department and post each payroll into Great Plains. This professional has used Great Plains, QuickBooks Pro, Excel, Outlook, and Trax on a daily basis.