Financial / Billing Specialist

General Description of Role and Responsibilities:

• Determines cost of project operations by establishing standard costing and collecting operational data.
• Identifies financial status by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts.
• Guides cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures; providing trends and forecasts; explaining methods and techniques; recommending actions.
• Improves financial status by analyzing results, monitoring variances, identifying trends, and recommending actions to both client and management.
• Review project performance
• Reconciles transactions by comparing and correcting data.
• Recommends actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses, studying proposed changes in methods and materials.
• Protects operations by keeping financial information confidential.
• Oversees and analyzes the annual budget, quarterly forecast, interim revenue, and cost projections.
• Review financial statements before each monthly close and prepare a monthly narrative for submission to corporate.
• Review and analyze the financial performance of the client portfolios for the support of Management and Operations.
• Oversee the invoicing process and procedures and the preparation and submission for all projects.
• Analyze business performance versus budget and forecasts.
• Develop financial reports for forecasting, Operating Profit and Cash requirements.
• Perform statistical, cost and finance analysis of data reported in Hill ERP systems.
• Interpreting financial transactions and events of client's portfolios.
• Assist in the preparation of financial statements for projects.
• Routinely engage and maintain a relationship with the Clients financial representatives.
• Assist with audits and prepare audit work papers.
• Informs themselves of the relevant Quality, Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health Policies, Manuals and Procedures in place within Hill International, and ensures continued compliance with these requirements while employed by Hill.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the line manager/supervisor.

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and Skills:

• Min 7 years of experience in the field.
• Experience on the international scene.
• Excellent written and spoken English skills. Having excellent written and spoken Arabic skills is preferred.
• Reporting on the performance of projects.
• Preparing forecasts, variance analysis.
• Ideally will have worked on project-based assignments.