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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in financial analysis, vendor management, and accrual processes, with a strong ability to prepare executive-ready reports and communicate complex financial topics effectively. Proven track record in managing budgets, forecasts, and spend governance in a matrixed organization.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Financial AnalysisVendor ManagementAccrual ManagementAdvanced Excel SkillsForecasting
ATS Keywords
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Hard Skills
Financial AnalysisForecastingVariance AnalysisSpend ReconciliationBudget ManagementPurchase Order ManagementInvoice ProcessingSpend GovernanceContract ManagementSOW Tracking
Soft Skills
Attention to DetailOwnershipCommunicationInfluencing Without AuthorityManaging Competing Priorities
Tools & Technologies
Power BISAPWorkdayAnaplanSmartSheet
Industry Keywords
Business OperationsVendor ManagementProcurement OperationsFP&AFinancial Controls
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Serve as the primary business operations contact for assigned vendors, ensuring clear ownership, timely follow-up, and disciplined issue resolution
- Partner with procurement and business stakeholders to support vendor onboarding, contract/SOW tracking, purchase order readiness, and invoice governance
- Develop and maintain rolling forecasts reflecting commitments, timing shifts, risks, opportunities, and business priorities
- Compare forecasted spend to actuals, explain variances, and identify overrun or underspend risks
- Prepare spend summaries, bridges, and leadership-ready reporting for business reviews, close activities, and planning cycles
- Strengthen spend governance through standardized tracking, documentation, reconciliations, and process improvements
- Manage monthly and quarterly accrual inputs by validating vendor activity, service periods, open commitments, and invoice status
- Partner with finance and accounting to ensure accruals are accurate, timely, supportable, and policy-aligned
- Reconcile purchase orders, invoices, actuals, and forecast assumptions to prevent missed, duplicated, or misclassified spend
- Advise finance, business owners, procurement, and program leaders on spend planning, prioritization, and decision support
- Translate operational updates into financial impacts, including forecast changes, accrual needs, funding gaps, and mitigation options
- Provide insights on spend trends, vendor exposure, cost optimization opportunities, and process gaps
- Support annual budget, long-term planning, quarterly outlook, monthly forecast, and ad hoc financial analysis activities
Requirements
What you’ll need- Four-year or graduate degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Operations, or a related discipline; or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence
- Typically 7–10+ years of experience in business analysis, finance operations, FP&A, vendor management, procurement operations, program operations, or spend management
- Demonstrated experience managing vendor spend, forecasts, accruals, purchase orders, invoices, and budget-to-actual reporting across multiple programs
- Experience partnering with finance, accounting, procurement, and senior business stakeholders in a matrixed organization
- Advanced financial analysis, forecasting, variance analysis, and spend reconciliation skills
- Strong understanding of accrual concepts, month-end close activities, purchase order lifecycle, invoice processing, and financial controls
- Strong vendor management discipline, including relationship management, issue tracking, contract/SOW awareness, and governance routines
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience with Power BI, SAP, Workday, Anaplan, SmartSheet, or similar reporting and financial systems preferred
- Ability to build executive-ready reporting, communicate complex financial topics clearly, and influence decisions without direct authority
- High attention to detail, strong ownership, and ability to manage competing priorities across tight close and forecast timelines
- Comfortable working with incomplete inputs, shifting assumptions, and cross-functional stakeholders
