Rolling Meadows, IL, US, 60008-3833
Senior Financial Analyst
Senior Financial Analyst
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU
Benefits:
- Compensation: $90,000 - $110,00 USD annually
- Annual Performance-Based Incentive Bonus
- 0-5% travel is required (Domestic & International)
- Comprehensive benefits (Including health, dental vision and employee assistance program)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan Eligibility
- 401k with employer match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Wellness reimbursement
- Paid time off
- Annual paid volunteer day off
- Fully climate-controlled environment
- Professional growth opportunities
- And more!
Job Description
As a key member of the Finance team, the Senior Financial Analyst’s primary objective is to provide project financials to the business. You will be a business partner to the project and operational management teams to help ensure successful project execution. This will be accomplished through financial reporting, measuring, and controlling, budgeting, forecasting, and cash management.
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES:
- Prepare monthly financial results, variance analysis, and executive-level reporting packages.
- Ensure financial processes, documentation, and controls align with SOX internal control environment
- Support monthly close activities, including reviewing junior team members’ tasks, journal entries, reconciliations, and alignment with IFRS and SOX requirements.
- Provide general guidance and mentorship to junior Finance staff on financial processes, reporting, and analysis to support development and adherence to internal standards.
- Prepare weekly financial forecast for Segment Business Review and explain main drivers of variances week over week, as well as identify financial risks and opportunities impacting project and operational performance.
- Partner with Operations to forecast and analyze revenue recognized under percentage‑of‑completion (POC), ensuring alignment between project performance and financial results.
- Support Operations by answering financial questions, providing analysis, and helping with business decision‑making.
- Review departmental forecast and actual headcount and costs with Department Leaders to ensure accurate forecasting and control over overhead spend.
- Monitor, analyze, and forecast overall divisional cash flows, including operational and project impacts, to support effective cash management and forecasting.
- Annual planning and financial forecasting. Department budgets: Prepare annually to support plan and then produce monthly reports comparing actual to plan.
- Pursue and implement process improvements in the department/business
- Assist with internal and external audits as required.
- Generate other ad-hoc analysis as required for running business and supporting initiatives.
- Maintain record retention and documentation standards for Finance and related functions.
- Comply with International Standardization Organization (ISO) standards and documentation for department.
- Ensure safeguarding of company assets.
- Full compliance with the terms and conditions within the employee signed work from home policy.
- Comply with all ATS Company policies.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting.
- CPA/pursuit of CPA desired.
- Three (3) - five (5) years’ equivalent accounting experience.
- Experience working in a project‑based environment utilizing percentage‑of‑completion (POC) revenue recognition is preferred.
- Preferred two (2) years of experience in a SOX and IFRS environment.
- Excellent math, communication, and organizational skills.
- Software/system knowledge, e.g., enterprise resource system (ERP), Microsoft Office suite, advanced level skill in Excel.
- Ability to work with business systems; directly or indirectly.
- Must be hands-on and must be able to meet deadlines for his or her responsibilities either directly or indirectly.
JOB SPECIFICATIONS:
- The employee may be required to stand, walk, push, pull, reach overhead, and bend to the floor.
- Exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or exert up to 10 pounds of force frequently.
- Visual acuity – Normal requirements for reading written instructions and computer screens.
- Hearing ability – Normal requirements for understanding verbal instructions.
- Working conditions – The employee is subject to a normal office environment with occasional exposure to high noise levels and/or physical hazards when visiting the manufacturing floor.
- Capable of wearing appropriate related PPE for extended periods of time.
Health, Safety & Environmental
All employees have the responsibility to work in a safe manner and report any health, safety or environmental concern to their manager or supervisor in a timely manner.
Health, Safety and Environment include:
- Work in compliance with divisional Health, Safety, and Environmental procedures.
- Refrain from removing or altering safety devices or guarding unless hazardous energies are controlled through
- Lockout-Tagout (LOTO) methods.
- Actively pursue a duty to act where any unsafe conditions or unsafe acts are witnessed.
- Report any unsafe conditions or unsafe acts to your leader.
- Escalate any unsafe conditions or unsafe acts which leaders do not address to the General Manager (GM).
- Report any defect in any equipment or protective device.
- Ensure that the required protective equipment (PPE) is used for the assigned task.
- Attend all required Health, Safety, and Environmental training.
- Report any accidents/incidents, including near misses, to your supervisor.
- Assist in investigating any accidents/incidents or near misses if requested.
- Refrain from engaging in any unruly conduct.
- Ensure that equipment, materials and protective devices are functioning in a safe manner.
- Ensure that employees are working in accordance with divisional health and safety procedures.
- Do not report to work onsite at a customer’s site, or travel on behalf of ATS when feeling ill. Contact your leader immediately.
- Conform to all pandemic requirements identified by regulating authorities and ATS leadership during pandemic situations, e.g., social or physical distancing and various PPE requirements.
- You are responsible for sanitizing your environmental footprint, for example:
- Sanitize after using any common or shared use item within the facility.
- Properly dispose of any witnessed trash or rubbish within the facility to the proper receptacle regardless of the source – use of PPE is recommended for anything potentially determined to be a biohazard.
- Properly dispose of liquids to prevent improper contaminants into the drain and surrounding water systems.
- Smoke/vape only in designated smoking areas and NOT within 15’ of any door.
If you're excited about this role, but do not meet all the qualifications listed above, you are still encouraged to apply.
Why YOU should join our ATS Life Sciences Systems team:
We value our PEOPLE - The foundation of a great company is having the best team which is why we continuously work to develop, engage, empower and energize our people. The best people want to work with the best team - the best teams are diverse and inclusive teams.
What we do MATTERS - our Life Sciences projects contribute to improving the lives of people around the world! ATS has made a commitment to be carbon neutral by 2030!
INNOVATION and PROBLEM SOLVING is at our core - Our pursuit of continuous improvement in everything we do. Our focus is on building diverse teams, stimulating innovation by challenging conventional thinking, encouraging fresh ideas and promoting creative problem-solving.
We prioritize internal GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT - ATS offers endless opportunities for professional growth and development – with a tuition reimbursement program, individual development programs and a commitment to promoting from within - there is space for you to grow your career at ATS!
We offer COMPETITIVE Total Rewards - Starting salary for this position is $90,000 - $110,00 with, paid time off (PTO), employee incentive bonus program, comprehensive benefits (including health, dental vision and employee assistance program), a wellness reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, annual paid volunteer day off, 401K with employer match and optional employee share purchase program and more!!! ##% travel is required (domestic and international)
A place to BELONG: We celebrate our differences and ensure that all employees have equal opportunities for growth and development. We believe that diversity of thought, background, and experiences is essential for our success and innovation.
ATS is in compliance with the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) and will, upon request, assist those who may require specific accommodations due to a personal disability. We would ask that those who require assistance to notify our offices as soon as possible if accommodation is necessary.
Learn more about what we do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZvFeO47MxE
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All applicants considered are subject to a pre-employment screening.
We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
Being authorized to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment. Our company is not able to provide sponsorship to candidates wanting to work legally in the United States and needing an H1-B Visa.