Description
Financial Systems Administrator - Financial Analyst I"
Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
Why Syneos Health
- We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
- We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.
Job Responsibilities
Job Summary
Financial Analyst I is an entry-level position within the finance department. This role primarily involves assisting in administering the Oracle suite of financial applications, preparing financial reports, and providing recommendations to support decision- making processes. Financial Analyst I may assist in budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling activities. They may also conduct research and analysis on industry trends, competitors, and economic factors that may impact the company's financial performance. Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and proficiency in financial software and tools are typically required for this role.
- Basic accounting- understand an income statement, balance sheet, debits and credits.
- Familiarity with Oracle Fusion GL.
- Familiarity with Oracle EPM tools- FCCS, ARCS, EPBCS, EDM.
- Oracle Smart View skills.
- Assist with basic configuration and maintenance of financial systems (ERP, reporting tools, budgeting platforms) under direct supervision.
- Perform routine data entry and run standard reports to support business needs.
- Help troubleshoot simple system issues and escalate more complex problems to senior analysts.
- Support documentation of processes and assist in preparing training materials for end-users.
- Participate in system testing activities (upgrades, integrations, new functionality) as directed.
- Provide basic end-user support and respond to standard inquiries.
- Collaborate with team members to learn and support system-related initiatives.
- Develops and delivers financial reporting, controls and procedures to ensure financial information is reported accurately and timely for group deadlines.
- Prepares, interprets and analyzes financial data, business metrics, and ad-hoc reports for global management.
- Prepares key reports such as annual cost and expense budgets, cost rates, cost and expense forecasting, monthly utilization, headcount, revenue backlog analysis, and/or gross profit for assigned area. Produces ad hoc reports as required.
- Develops and produces monthly financial reports and commentary, as well as other financial analysis and metrics as required by senior management. Offers methods for improving results by reviewing timeliness, accuracy and efficiencies in reporting.
- Serves as a key contact point for interpretation and investigation of financial results in assigned area.
- Provides financial insights to business growth trends and profitability in assigned area.
- Assists management and others within Finance department with miscellaneous projects as directed by supervisor.
Min/Preferred Education Level Description
Minimum 4 Year / Bachelors Degree or currently working towards Bachelors Degree
Bachelor’s degree in business, Accounting, Finance, or equivalent education and experience.
Additional Qualifications
- Ability to utilize protocol and subject data to identify how to build subject visit forecast (i.e., split of forecast by multiple cohorts/arms, split by different subject status)
- Review Medidata CTMS data and determine if any additional side calculations are needed for forecast (i.e., missing screen failure costs)
- identify inconsistency within data (i.e., significant change in visit rate for 1 site, currency error due to typo KWW instead of KRW)
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) is esential. Proficiency with accounting software packages is necessary and experience with Oracle Finance is preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to work with confidential and sensitive data is required.
- Requires exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, organizational, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
- Excellent financial, communication, and interpersonal skills are required as well as a high level of personal motivation to achieve.
- The ability to perform several tasks simultaneously to meet deadlines is necessary.
Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.
No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
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Additional Information
Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.
Summary
The Financial Systems Analyst I supports the organization’s financial systems by assisting with basic system tasks, ensuring data accuracy, and providing entry-level support for reporting and operational processes. This role focuses on learning system configurations, resolving routine issues, and supporting enhancements under close guidance from senior team members. The position collaborates with Finance, Technology, and other business partners to maintain data integrity and assist with financial reporting needs.
