About the Role
The IT Workforce Strategy and Operations team is seeking a temporary consultant to perform business analysis in procurement, manage and assist accounts payable, support vendor issues, and assist project managers with daily business processes and vendor-related situations.
Responsibilities
- Work in conjunction with AP to address unmatched, unvouchered, and rejected invoices.
- Support IT Finance staff with daily processes.
- Work with Buyer to address Purchase Order related issues to ensure timely payment processing.
- Generate, track, and manage AP aging reports.
- Address delinquent accounts in accordance with NYS Prompt Payment Law of 30 days.
- Perform cost/spend analysis.
- Act as a liaison between Project Managers, Procurement, and Finance to expedite payments.
- Review emailed statements and maintain positive vendor relationships.
- Coordinate with finance to resolve all vendor disputes.
- Analyze, identify, and recommend solutions for procedural gaps.
- Create receipts in PeopleSoft.
- Review and analyze large samples of data.
- Prepare weekly metric reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends for accounts payable transactions.
- Perform invoice review and coordinate resolution with vendors/service providers.
- Develop formal (letters) and informal (emails) written correspondence.
- Identify exceptional patterns.
- Perform data collection functions.
- Notify appropriate managers of exceptions.
Requirements
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in an accounting analyst role.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience with PeopleSoft finance/procurement/finance.
- Detail understanding of Accounts Payable.
- Functional experience with Financial Systems (PeopleSoft, Oracle) is preferred.
- Experience with project-based financial management budgeting/forecasting and/or auditing is a plus.
- Excellent oral, written, and communication skills.
- Excellent inter-personal skills including the ability to work with individuals at all levels of the organization.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute in a high-pressure environment.
- Ability to independently set priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment; a self-starter.
- Ability to perform high-volume work accurately and independently.
- Ability to perform financial analysis using various financial systems.
Skills
- Finance/Accounting: 4 - 6 Years
- Business Analyst: 4 - 6 Years
- Total: 7 - 9 years
- Microsoft Office 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Location
- 2 Broadway - MTA Headquarters NY 10004
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 3 days per week onsite
- 2 days remote
- Temporary
- 12 Months
Education Level
- BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics preferred
About the Company
- Since 2000, Tri-Force Consulting Services has been an MBE/SDB certified IT Consulting firm in the Philadelphia region.
- Tri-Force specializes in IT staffing, software development (web and mobile apps), systems integration, data analytics, system automation, cybersecurity, and cloud technology solutions for government and commercial clients.
- Tri-Force works with clients to overcome obstacles such as increasing productivity, increasing efficiencies through automation, and lowering costs.
- Our clients benefit from our three distinguishing core values: integrity, diligence, and technological excellence.
- Tri-Force is a six-time winner among the fastest-growing companies in Philadelphia and a four-time winner on the Inc. 5000 list of the nation's fastest-growing companies.
