Cepheid

About Cepheid

POSITION SUMMARY: This position will act as business partner with functional leaders and project managers responsible for Cepheid’s Government contracts and grants and will assist with the development of accurate headcount and expense forecasts, project analysis, financial statistic calculation, and management and project reporting. The role partners with the leadership teams to support sound business decision making by providing insightful financial analysis, accurate forecasting/planning and project reporting. The owner of this role brings business acumen, analytical power, a results and process-improvement mentality. A successful candidate executes with a high sense of integrity, good communication skills, great attention to detail and a proven ability to work with business partners and leaders. This role will be instrumental in improving the management and project reporting processes, systems and analytics for respective business partners and project managers. ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES – may include, but not limited to: Assists with building and maintaining financial models for government grant proposals. Performs financial results analysis to identify variations and trends that indicate possible exposures, assessing risk and managing compliance within Cepheid policies and government contracts rules and regulations. Helps implement standard work processes for efficient and accurate government contracts management. Assists with providing answers to questions and provide status reports to the sponsoring agencies. Assists with resolution of post award related issues. Works collaboratively with project managers to ensure proper allocation of Cepheid resources, approving hires and purchase orders, enforcing accurate time-reporting and ensuring projects are progressing timely and on budget. Assists with developing changes to department policies and practices as needed in order to ensure compliance with government contract rules and regulations. Helps prepare monthly budget vs. actual analysis on several dimensions of the projects (milestones, sub-projects deliverables, cost centers, headcount, materials, consulting, overhead and capex). Assists with preparing timely and accurate annual budgets and monthly forecasts, with similar levels of detail as mentioned above, management and corporate reports related to the projects. Assists with preparing monthly reports for the project team, R&D & finance organizations as well as sponsoring agencies, to review actual results analyze forecast variances, update forecasts. Works closely with General Accounting to ensure proper coding of expenses and capital purchases. Prepares allocation and accrual journal entries. Ensure proper coding of allowable vs. unallowable expenses. Provides support to any government audits, as well as internal audits and maintains relevant documentation to support audits. Create and maintain an environment of personal accountability that encourages ownership of issues and excellence in service. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's in Accounting, Finance, or related area required. 2-5 years of related experience. Ability to independently manage high volume and complex transactions. Excellent/effective oral and written communication and presentation skills. Demonstrated knowledge of generally accepted accounting, fiscal and reporting principles. Goal/results-oriented team player with demonstrated success working effectively across all levels within the organization Strong hands-on ERP, Data Warehouse and Consolidations & Reporting tool experience and business analysis (SAP, BPC, BW, Hyperion HFM experience preferred). Knowledge of financial and accounting theory as well as financial and statistical modeling techniques. Proven experience working with confidential or sensitive information. Results oriented – has track record for delivering results, takes ownership and is accountable. Stretch oriented – embraces and thrives on challenge. Continuous improvement and customer service oriented, with high sense of urgency. Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office, including fluency with Excel Pivot Tables, macros and function formulas. The statements in this description represent typical elements, criteria and general work performed. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills for this job.

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Legal Form: AB

Company Type: Public

Company Size: 1001 - 5000

Revenue: 1 - 5 billion (USD)

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