[Hiring] Finance Support Specialist @SGI Global, LLC

Role Description

SGI Global, LLC is seeking an experienced and highly analytical Finance Support Specialist based in Mexico to provide direct support to its U.S.-based Finance Department. The position requires a finance professional with practical experience in:

• Accounting
• Financial reporting
• Project finance
• Budgeting
• Reconciliations
• Financial analysis

This role goes beyond data compilation and administrative financial support. The successful candidate must be able to:

• Understand the accounting and financial information underlying transactions and reports
• Identify inconsistencies
• Reconcile financial data
• Investigate variances
• Transform information from multiple sources into accurate and meaningful financial reports and analyses for management

Because SGI operates in a project-based and U.S. federal contracting environment, the position requires a professional capable of:

• Working independently
• Managing multiple financial assignments
• Meeting U.S. reporting deadlines
• Communicating effectively with the CFO and Finance Department

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related field
• Minimum 3–5 years of hands-on professional experience in accounting, financial reporting, project finance, financial analysis, or similar functions
• Demonstrated ability to interpret accounting and financial information, rather than solely compile or process data
• Practical experience preparing financial reconciliations, management reports, budget analyses, and financial schedules
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, pivot tables, lookups, data reconciliation, multi-tab workbook management, and analysis of large datasets
• Strong analytical skills and demonstrated ability to investigate financial discrepancies and determine their underlying causes
• Ability to independently receive a financial assignment, understand its objective, identify the information required, perform the necessary analysis, and produce a complete and accurate deliverable
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain accuracy while working with significant volumes of financial information
• Fluent written and spoken English, sufficient for daily professional interaction with the U.S.-based Finance Department
• Ability to work effectively in a remote environment and consistently support U.S. Eastern Time business hours

Requirements

• Support the preparation, review, reconciliation, and documentation of client and government invoices in accordance with contractual billing requirements
• Prepare and maintain financial reports, management reports, budget analyses, reconciliations, and supporting schedules
• Analyze financial information and identify variances, inconsistencies, unusual transactions, missing information, and potential reporting errors
• Reconcile information across accounting records, project financial data, invoices, timesheets, payroll information, budgets, and supporting documentation
• Support budget-to-actual analysis, forecasting, expenditure monitoring, and financial performance reporting
• Extract, organize, analyze, and interpret financial and project information from Unanet and other available sources
• Develop and maintain advanced Excel workbooks used for financial reporting, analysis, reconciliations, and management decision-making
• Support month-end and other periodic financial closing activities, including data compilation, variance analysis, reconciliations, and supporting documentation
• Review project codes, labor categories, billing rates, indirect costs, travel costs, and other financial information applicable to project reporting and invoicing
• Assist in identifying and resolving discrepancies between financial systems, Excel reports, supporting documentation, and contractual requirements
• Prepare ad hoc financial analyses and reports requested by the CFO and U.S. Finance Department
• Maintain appropriate supporting documentation and audit trails for financial transactions, reports, and reconciliations
• Communicate financial findings clearly and escalate material discrepancies or risks proactively
• Coordinate with U.S.-based Finance, Contracts, Operations, and Program teams as necessary
• Take ownership of assigned financial workstreams and deliver accurate outputs with limited day-to-day supervision

Company Description