Finance Associate - Client Accounting

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.