Financial Operations Manager

The role

You will provide financial reporting, analysis, and guidance to Operating Group and Business Unit leaders. You will build scenario-planning models and analyze margins, costs, and financial risks to support decision-making.

What you will do

• Build and deliver scenario-planning models for revenue and financial risks.
• Analyze sold margin, resource margin, margin contribution, cost, utilization, and financial risk.
• Provide weekly reporting decks, financial read-outs, and forecast support.
• Identify and escalate T&M contract leakage and revenue-recognition risks.
• Partner with Project Accountants to support revenue assurance and resolve account issues.
• Support Finance, Treasury, and FP&A processes through forecasting and metrics.
• Advise leaders on revenue-recognition compliance, contract structures, pricing, and discounts.
• Respond to ad hoc financial reporting and analysis requests.
• Coach and support Project Accountants on prioritization and service delivery.
• Build financial literacy among non-finance stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in FP&A, accounting, financial analysis, or a comparable business-unit finance role, ideally with 3–5 years of experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or comparable experience.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with financial reporting or business intelligence tools, including Qlik or a similar platform.
• Experience understanding income statements, planning processes, forecasts, and financial performance trends.
• Working knowledge of revenue recognition, contract structures, pricing and discount arrangements, and margin and utilization analysis in a project-based business.
• Demonstrated ability to translate financial data into clear, actionable guidance for non-finance leaders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without formal authority and hold stakeholders accountable.
• Strong financial and analytical reasoning, attention to detail, business acumen, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to prioritize, multitask, and manage time effectively.
• Proven ability to collaborate successfully with various finance and leadership teams.
• A process-improvement mindset.

Nice to have

• Experience in a professional services, consulting, staffing, or other utilization- and margin-based environment
• Prior experience informally leading, coaching, or reviewing the work of others
• CPA or MBA in progress
• Experience working with a business-unit or practice-group structure

Benefits

• Transparent and Equitable Salary
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
• Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution
• 2% 401(k), vested immediately
• Company ownership through Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 4 weeks of vacation time
• 10 holidays
• 1 floating holiday
• Paid sabbatical after 5 years of service for Principals and above
• Paid parental leave
• breast milk shipping costs reimbursed for work travel
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), health concierge, and financial wellness tool

Before you apply

• Legally authorized to work for any company in the United States without sponsorship.

About the company

Pariveda is a North American-based, employee-owned professional services firm. They provide strategy and technology services across industries.