Financial Specialist

Job Title:

Financial Specialist Location:

San Jose, CA Employment Type:

Contract (9 months)

Industry:

Semiconductor equipment industry

Compensation:

$ 69.45 / hr.

Schedule:

40 hours/week (1 st shift) About the

Opportunity:

Responsible for providing critical business information to the Business unit, to enable the Finance Business Partners to drive effective decision making and realize Business unit deliverables in time and within financial targets. Take a proactive role in preparing and managing the short-term and long-term financial sales forecasts and monthly financial sales reviews, ensuring high quality planning information in terms of relevance, context, accuracy, and timelines together with the Sales team who are located globally. This also includes the monthly plan vs actual analysis.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates Why This Opportunity is

Exciting:

This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally. About Acara Solutions Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive the business outcomes they seek. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide. Sound like a good fit?

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What You'll Do:

Identify, communicate and monitor financial sales risks and opportunities, and translate those into executable actions with aim to improve business performance. Execute revenue recognition assessments of commercial deals, manage securing revenue and provide guidance to the Client Business Services (ABS) team on financial processing of sales Support in preparing complex commercial deals by executing financial analysis that will support decision making during the Deal Structuring processes Drive continuous improvement through initiating and executing changes together with subject matter experts involved in the processes which enhance the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of financial planning information, tools, processes, analysis and organization.

What You'll Bring:

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance 5+ years of experience in an accounting or control environment, including revenue accounting and/or revenue recognition assessments. 5+ years of experience in managing complex financial processes and planning applications in SAP BPC and related tools (SAP BW, BI reporting, Spotfire). 5+ years of experience in a multi-national, high-technology hardware company and a proven track record of quickly understanding complex content. 5+ years of experience in using Microsoft Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint) and have worked with or are comfortable with learning (new) BI Reporting tools (e.g. Tibco Spotfire, wDesk or Tableau)

What Sets You Apart:

Master's Degree Strong understanding of ASC 606 revenue recognition principles and standards Team player enjoys working in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams with the ability to work independently Hands on / getting things done with pro-active drive for improvement Ability to complete assignments with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy Maintain personal effectiveness and people focus under pressure, high speed of change and uncertainty Ability to guide and advise at all organizational levels to effect sustainable change and improving the process maturity level of the finance organization Owns quality and is guided by awareness of customer impact

Additional Information:

Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check After you apply, you may receive a call or message from our AI Talent Scout about this role or other opportunities that match your skills and preferences. AI agent role is to help speed up your hiring process by answering questions, confirming basic information, and identifying whether there's a mutual fit. The call or chat may be recorded so that our recruiting team can review it - they make all final hiring decisions, while AI agent simply helps move you forward faster. The best part? They are available 24/7, so you can connect whenever it's convenient for you. Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran. Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with

F-1 OPT STEM

work authorization status.