Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The YMCA of Metropolitan Atlanta is a nonprofit organization providing education, wellness, youth development, and community-building programs across Atlanta. The Financial Operations Analyst supports IT business processes, including budgeting, forecasting, invoicing, payments, contracts, procurement, and asset management. The role analyzes financial performance, improves processes, manages IT procurement and equipment, and provides recommendations to increase margins.
Responsibilities
- Identify financial status by comparing and analyzing actual results compared to budget and forecasts
- Assist with leading the annual budget and monthly forecasting processes
- Lead expense analysis and management process by establishing, if necessary, and enforcing policies and procedures
- Provide trends and forecasts, explaining processes, and recommendations
- Improve financial results by analyzing results; monitoring variances; identifying trends; recommending actions to management
- Reconcile transactions by comparing and correcting data
- Examine the financial operations for the branches and the Metro Atlanta YMCA to provide recommendations to increase margins
- Recommend actions by analyzing and interpreting data, making comparative analyses, and studying proposed changes
- Identify root cause of changes that need to occur, create a process or procedure to ensure change, and drive to resolution
- Increase productivity by developing streamlining processes (systems and manual) while gathering and documenting information requirement
- Maintain strict confidentiality with financial and possible human resource data
- Manage procurement for all IT assets, hardware, and software
- Maintain healthy IT vendor relationships through timely contract and invoice processing
- Manage IT personal computer equipment, including inventory and life cycle replacement analysis, and projecting demand for new equipment
- Maintain technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications, and self-development
- Contribute to team effort completing other duties, as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree Finance, Accounting, or closely related field from an accredited college or university
- A friendly professional demeanor and ability to excel in a team-oriented environment
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office suite especially Excel
- Strong analytical and detail-oriented aptitude; a high degree of accuracy is required
- Ability to organize, analyze, and visualize data
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Ability to work independently, manage time effectively, set priorities to meet deadlines
- Ability to learn and adapt to change in a highly complex and fast paced environment
- Exercises judgement within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
- Ability to work across the organization
- Strong customer-service / user-experience orientation
- Analytical Ability
- Strong Understanding of Technology
- Attention to Detail
- Communication Skills
- Process Improvement
- Sitting, bending, stooping, standing, 15% repetitive keyboard work, seeing, verbal communications, lift to 25 pounds
- Must be legally eligible to work in the US without current or future sponsorship
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