Accenture - Client Financial Management Analyst

Position: Client Financial Management (CFM) Analyst

Experience/Knowledge:

Required:

- Minimum two years of related experience; working knowledge of business, finance and accounting fundamentals including U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP); strong organizational, analytical and multi-tasking skills; good oral and written communication skills.

- Good working knowledge of MS Office Programs (Excel and Access); ability to commute to and between client sites; and ability to travel and work out of town for extended periods of time, as required.

General:

- CFM analysts perform work plan reconciliation and reporting, process financial transactions and track time and expenses.

- They also assist with the preparation of engagement, project and program reporting. Analysts perform and monitor Accenture internal financial accounting processes and perform special assignments for engagement executives (e.g., ad hoc reporting, trend analysis, costing and forecasting).

Main Responsibilities:

Financial Management:

- Prepare engagement set-up paperwork.

- Track and report time report expenses and Accenture other expenses. Periodically review expense budgets. Track use of and compliance with the engagement's expense policy.

- Track and report third-party out-of-pocket expenses, hardware/software costs, client personnel expenses against program budget and any other expense charges to program budget. Follow-up about questionable or invalid expenses.

- Monitor engagement capital assets and technology rental equipment.

- Assist/prepare Accenture (and subcontractor) bill to client based upon contractual requirements and engagement status. Process bill in Accenture financial systems.

- Prepare accounts payable payment requests and submit to Accounting Center (ASC, ESC).

- Assist with engagement shutdown activities (prepare final bill to client, close job numbers, etc.).

- Assist with ensuring U.S. GAAP compliance.

Work Management:

- Collect engagement time.

- Perform reconciliation processes (turnaround document, ARTES, job summaries).

- Perform data and report archiving.

- Manage/perform Accenture time reporting processes (collection, entry, and send processing).

- Assist with forecast management activities (input collection, processing and report creation).

Other:

- Assist/prepare Accenture/Client/3rd Party contract compliance tracking reports.

- Assist/prepare client financial management materials for CQMA review.