Finance Associate - Client Accounting

Job Description

What You'll Do Work alongside Client Accounting and Finance Business Partnership teams to support project teams actively manage project (client) invoicing. Engage with project teams, colleagues, and clients to identify and resolve issues related to project invoicing. Support in-flight client projects. Provide reporting, tracking client POs, ensuring invoicing compliance with ZS and Client policies. Engage effectively with resources at all levels within ZS and at our clients, as appropriate. Manage client POs, creating and sending invoices to clients. Ensure project financial transactions (billing, collection, time & expenses) are completed in a timely and accurate manner. Assist with engagement startup (project setup) and shutdown activities (prepare final bill to client, etc.). Receive, interpret, and process billing instructions, following up with project teams for clarification as needed. Send invoices to clients through multiple channels (email, online, postal mail) as dictated by client. Manage client POs - receipt of POs, communication with project teams to assign to projects. Maintain electronic archive of all invoices and log of invoice details. What You'll Bring Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, or business required, advanced degree welcome, with a strong record of academic achievement. 0-3 years of invoicing/billing experience. Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook), SAP experience desirable. Strong analytic and critical thinking abilities. Effective oral and written communication skills that enable strong relationship-building and stakeholder management. Strong attention to detail. Motivated and proactive. Professional objectivity and judgment to know when to challenge activities. Agile and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.