Job Title: Korean Bilingual Finance Analyst
Job Type: 12 Months, Regular Fulltime, Hourly
Korean Bilingual Required
Bachelor's Degree in a related field
2+ years of experience required
LOCATION
Plano, TX
BENEFITS
Medical Insurance (Health, Dental & Vision)
Paid Time Off
401K
H1B/Green Card Sponsorship for qualified employee
Hands-on experience at global industry leader Samsung
Opportunities for career advancement
COMPENSATION
$24-25
TOP SKILLS
MS Excel proficiency
Korean bilingual
OVERVIEW
This is a lead role responsible for training and guiding the other Financial Analyst in the team and together managing all the current and future financial activities assigned to the team. The team has three major areas of functions- testing management, legal/contract/NDA negotiation and management and financial activities management. Ability to learn and work closely with the other two groups in the team, and multiple teams and organization in USA, South Korea (HQ) and other countries are integral parts of this job. This person must be well disciplined and detail oriented to ensure accuracy of data collection and the integrity of financial reporting in a timely manner. The team functions and/ the underlying tasks may change frequently.
ESSENTIAL & RESPONSIBILITIES
Financial Activities Details:
HQ reimbursement, Budget Analysis and Forecast Trending:
Prepare monthly HQ reimbursement for both R&D and GO group with all HQ required documents.
Coordinate between SEA Finance, AP and AGS Beeline team to capture and fix discrepancies from SAP and ensure to receive 100% accurate reimbursement amount from HQ.
Perform monthly budget analysis reports and analyze HQ efficiency Target vs Actuals.
Identify monthly fluctuation rates to update the forecast trending report for HQ finance.
Promptly respond to any urgent queries for payment clarification received from numerous internal teams such as HQ R&D, SW PLs, MNO, SMC and etc.
Keep Forecast vs Actuals variance within 5% to satisfy R&D and HQ finance team.
Translate emails/documents from Korean to English as requested by upper management.
PO/Invoice Verification and Processing:
Process and approve blanket and singular POs for all 3rd party labs as necessary in a timely manner.
Verify final quotes and invoices against test requirements, agreements, SOWs and pricing plans.
Ensure the invoices are itemized properly and reflect correct cost and discounts.
Work with test requestors and project leads about accuracy of bills before processing invoices.
Collect and maintain detailed supporting data (New Technology, Expanded/Reduced TP, leveraged models, and request authorization information, etc.) for invoice verification and processing.
Maintain and track PO details from system to monitor each vendor's remaining test cost.
Coordinate between HQ RCG and CTIA on PTCRB certification invoices and payment processing.
Device Cost analysis and Vendor Pricing Update:
Primary contact of all 3rd party labs with billing activities and pricing agreements.
Work with each vendor's accounting/finance teams to streamline billing process to avoid risk in TA by reducing time of overall billing cycle.
Gather, analyze and provide cost detailed templates for all Verizon projects for Carrier submission.
Ensure Vendor's pricing agreement to be up-to-date and make sure their pricing reflects the proportional to the increased/reduced test scopes.
Collect testing cost information from vendor labs, HQ and internal tracking files ahead of deadline.
Any pricing updates from ETM 3rd party test lab is directly reported to upper management by capturing cost difference that could impact the budget plan.
Analyze all Carrier's actual operating results through the year; compare monthly forecasts to yearly budget plan.
Support external company such as KPMG with year-end R&D Tax Credit preparation.
Assist management with comparative cost and savings analysis, creative service modeling recommendations, charts, graphs and reports for negotiating more favorable price plans.
Participate in budget and strategic planning to reduce cost and improve efficacy of financial operation.
Additional Responsibilities
Perform oversight responsibility of the junior Financial Analyst's work- assign, monitor, train and guide to maintain high quality of all work done by the team.
Act as a fallback to cover for the junior Analyst when on leave.
Train the junior Analyst on all aspects of the scope or work so that she is fully ready at any given point to cover for this position whenever needed.
Perform Sample management and distribution process in Plano TX office.
Primary contact for managing Spirent tools for MNO use including login authorization and usage monitoring in the Spirent portal/database.
Purchase tools, equipment and renew licenses as necessary for testing by MNO.
Record and upload information and data in SEA/HQ systems as required (PLM, MOSAIC, etc.)
Be back up assistance for updating security tracker and handling additional deliverables to vendors.
Coordinate between HQ and Labs to support on DHL billing activities.
Create, update and maintain a master pricing database for all vendor's itemized price plans and rates in detail.
Seek new pricing information from vendor labs on all new feature and technology test plans and frequently evolving test scope changes resulting in frequent pricing updates.
Calculate and project new and out of budget testing cost for reporting to HQ R&D management and Finance team.
Identify opportunities for variance mitigation of cost to meet budget compliance.
Simulate savings due to test scope reductions, rate reduction, discount and other reasons and provide reports to management to aid favorable decision making.
Support invoice processing and other work transferred from SEA Accounting and Finance.
Work closely with lab vendor's accounting/finance departments as well as also with Samsung operation/sales/engineering departments to request, collect and justify carrier/HQ required testing details related to cost impact.
Monitor and mitigate crisis with CTIA payment processing and certification on a regular basis.
Develop ongoing relationship and make process adjustments with the vendor labs to make sure all invoices are uploaded to SEA portal on time to avoid any delays to our device TA due to late payment.
Review and identify pricing discrepancies and unfavorable language related to pricing in the current contracts and suggest contract manager to update and amend the contracts.
Hold regular meetings with test requestors (ETM carrier leads) to resolve cost and test tracking mistakes.
Attend non-finance meetings with HQ and MNO to support ETM supervisor and other members by translating the discussions in Korean into English.
QUALIFICATIONS
Bilingual in Korean and English Required
Bachelor's Degree in related field
Proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel in Pivot Table and VLookup
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