Position: Financial Analyst 3

Job Location: Plano, TX, USA

Compensation: $50/hr, Nonexempt OT rate 1.4 times

Job Type: 1 year Contract, Autorenewal or Better offer after period

Duties:

This is a lead role responsible for training and guiding the other Financial Analyst in the team and together managing all the current and future financial activities assigned to the team.

Qualification:

• BS in Finance or Accounting preferred.

• 4~5 years finance/accounting work experience preferred.

•Korean/English Bilingual

• Previous experience utilizing SAP, ERP/GERP and other accounts payable tools is highly desired.

• Advance knowledge of Microsoft Excel and be good with Power Point.

• Willing to travel as required.

• Willing to sign NDA and/ secrecy pledge agreements as required for handling special projects.

Financial Activities Details:

HQ reimbursement, Budget Analysis and Forecast Trending:

• Prepare monthly HQ reimbursement for both R&D and GO group with all HQ required documents.

• Coordinate between SEA Finance, AP and AGS Beeline team to capture and fix discrepancies from SAP and ensure to receive 100% accurate reimbursement amount from HQ.

• Perform monthly budget analysis reports and analyze HQ efficiency Target vs Actuals.

• Identify monthly fluctuation rates to update the forecast trending report for HQ finance.

• Promptly respond to any urgent queries for payment clarification received from numerous internal teams such as HQ R&D, SW PLs, MNO, SMC and etc.

• Keep Forecast vs Actuals variance within 5% to satisfy R&D and HQ finance team.

• Translate emails/documents from Korean to English as requested by upper management.

PO/Invoice Verification and Processing:

• Process and approve blanket and singular POs for all 3rd party labs as necessary in a timely manner.

• Verify final quotes and invoices against test requirements, agreements, SOWs and pricing plans.

• Ensure the invoices are itemized properly and reflect correct cost and discounts.

• Work with test requestors and project leads about accuracy of bills before processing invoices.

• Collect and maintain detailed supporting data (New Technology, Expanded/Reduced TP, leveraged models, and request authorization information, etc.) for invoice verification and processing.

• Maintain and track PO details from system to monitor each vendor’s remaining test cost.

• Coordinate between HQ RCG and CTIA on PTCRB certification invoices and payment processing.

Device Cost analysis and Vendor Pricing Update:



• Primary contact of all 3rd party labs with billing activities and pricing agreements.

• Work with each vendor’s accounting/finance teams to streamline billing process to avoid risk in TA by reducing time of overall billing cycle.

• Gather, analyze and provide cost detailed templates for all Verizon projects for Carrier submission.

• Ensure Vendor’s pricing agreement to be up-to-date and make sure their pricing reflects the proportional to the increased/reduced test scopes.

• Collect testing cost information from vendor labs, HQ and internal tracking files ahead of deadline.

• Any pricing updates from ETM 3rd party test lab is directly reported to upper management by capturing cost difference that could impact the budget plan.

• Analyze all Carrier’s actual operating results through the year; compare monthly forecasts to yearly budget plan.

• Support external company such as KPMG with year-end R&D Tax Credit preparation.

• Assist management with comparative cost and savings analysis, creative service modeling recommendations, charts, graphs and reports for negotiating more favorable price plans.

• Participate in budget and strategic planning to reduce cost and improve efficacy of financial operation.