Financial Analyst

Company: Veolia
Location: Lombard
Posted on: May 8, 2022

Job Description:

Job Description

Responsible for executing the accounting and controlling functions for the Veolia Environment North America's -Municipal portfolio of business in conjunction with management in order to provide professional financial support, -expertise and guidance to internal clients including financial management, operational management and other -members of M&C Finance Department. Primary emphasis and focus for this position centers on building and -analyzing the financial statements of the sites. This includes comparison of reported results to budgets, forecasts, -prior year trends in addition to the creation of ad-hoc analyses. Singularly important to these comparisons is -consistent adherence to general accounting processes in the proper recording of assigned balance sheet -components, revenue recognition practices and principles, COS matching and capital budgeting and expenditure -reporting. Compliance with these practices ensures accurate and timely population of all required disclosures for -internal and external reporting purposes.

1. Executes upon the general accounting structure and processes of the organization for assigned business in conjunction with the policies and directives of the M&C Finance Department.

2. Responsible for financial statement presentation including: revenue recognition principles and -practices, managing revenue and expense accruals to properly reflect incurred and earned activity -according to the matching principle, provisions and SG&A activity. This includes, but is not -exclusive to, ensuring the integrity of balance sheets, income statements and cash flow reporting.

3. Preparation and review of the accounts receivable and allowances for contract customers.

4. Compliance with and execution of the detailed month-end closing schedule for M&C Finance under -guidance provided by the Finance Director, acting as the liaison to the operational and overhead -teams in terms of assisting them with their concerns to ensure compliance with deadlines and -expectations for non-financial personnel.

5. Proposes changes to accounting and operational processes to enhance the automation and -efficiency of the department.

6. Proposes changes to accounting and operational processes to further the aims of a strong internal -control environment, which ensures the safeguarding of company assets.

7. Provides and analyzes financial and operating results of the business including review of internal -and external financial reports and analyses. Appraisals include comparisons in terms of revenues, -costs, profitability and liquidity in comparison to budgets, forecasts and prior year trends.

8. Provides reporting and analytical support to the business related to business -development -activities.

9. Contributor to the preparation of Monthly Operating Report (MOR) for assigned reporting package, -bridges focusing on comparisons of working capital and profitability versus budget, forecasts and -prior year results and analyzing monthly Flash reporting.

10. Participation in the formulation of budgets and forecasts for assigned business units under the -direction of management, working jointly with the operational and SG&A organizations to ensure -the accuracy of the output prepared.

11. Coordination and preparation of audit workpapers as required by the external

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