Financial Data Scientist
BC Forward

Financial Data Scientist

BCForward is currently looking for Financial Data Scientist (Remote) in Durham, NC 27703

Position Title: Financial Data Scientist

Location: Remote: Durham, NC 27703

Expected Duration: 06+ months.

Pay Rate: $38/hr

Estimated Start Date: 4/1/2024

Position Summary:

• Plays a critical role in supporting business partners by extracting data from various sources, performing exploratory data analysis, cleansing, massaging, aggregating, transforming and balancing data for use in financial accounting and reporting.
• Analyzes, verifies and balances all source data used in the preparation of journal entries, financial exhibits, reports, schedules and other documents in terms of accuracy, completeness and compliance with requirements.
• Evaluates impact of business changes to accounting transactions and systems, gathers requirements, tests and implements changes to financial information or related documentation. Creates impactful visual representations of analytic insights and concise summaries of methodology geared to audience needs.
• Prepares and maintains internal control documentation and testing in accordance with SOX.
• Evaluates controls for effectiveness and identifies internal control improvements as necessary.
• Maintains strong working knowledge of systems and applications and process flows.
• Identifies process improvements and automation opportunities using data extraction and analysis tools, and coordinates testing and implementation.

Duties:

• Cleaning and preparing data for analysis
• Analyzing data for trends and correlations
• Building predictive models
• Supporting big data projects
• Designing and developing databases
• Organizing, interpreting, and visualizing data
• Communicating results to stakeholders
• Using data modeling techniques to bring cohesion to unstructured and semi-structured data.
• Conducting quantitative analysis to obtain insights, developing these into workable solutions, and then following these through to successful delivery (while measuring outcomes).

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, information systems or related field required.
• Five years' experience in accounting or information systems required.
• Contract/project centric industry experience preferred, and life sciences a plus.
• Strong understanding of Order to Cash processes
• Experience or background in accounting, finance, contract and project accounting strongly preferred.
• Experience with driving data to insights and sustainable process in a large matrixed organization.
• Highly motivated, self-starter, full of initiative, team player
• Strong analytical and communication skills that allow for the development of data driven reports.
• In-depth knowledge of spreadsheet, reporting, query and/or relational database software required.
• Working knowledge of Peoplesoft/Oracle Fusion preferred.
• Experience in project accounting and systems may substitute nine years of related experience in lieu of degree.
• Demonstrated advance experience/proficiencies in MS Access, Excel, and Power Products (Power BI, Power Query, etc.), SQL, Alteryx,
• Proficient in MS Office products (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint)

Benefits:

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

To learn more about how BCforward collects and uses personal information as part of the recruiting process, view our Privacy Notice and CCPA Addendum. As part of the recruitment process, we may ask for you to disclose and provide us with various categories of personal information, including identifiers, professional information, commercial information, education information, and other related information. BCforward will only use this information to complete the recruitment process.

This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants applying for positions in the United States must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this posting may render the applicant ineligible for the position. Any subsequent offer of employment will be considered employment at-will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.

Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 220941 when responding to this ad.

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Job Snapshot

Employee Type
Contractor

Location
Chapel Hill, NC (Onsite)

Job Type
Accounting

Experience
Not Specified

Date Posted
04/04/2024

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