Project Analyst

Position Details:

• Onsite work: Painted Post, NY - Erwin Park Center - Expect to work onsite at least 50-75% of the time with the other core team members.
• Work Schedule/Flextime: 8 am - 5 pm (EST) with extended workdays/weekends required occasionally depending on project phase and status.
• Travel Requirements: No travel required.
• 3-months contract.

Scope of Position:

• As a Project Analyst within Corning Shared Services, you will participate on the OneStream Implementation project.
• You may need to participate in multiple smaller projects depending on project portfolio and business needs.
• The OneStream project Data Reconciliation phase will likely be a 2-3x month time commitment.
• Additional opportunities to support the project or others will be considered.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• OneStream Data Reconciliation and Validation.
• Performs data reconciliation between multiple systems (SAP PeopleSoft, Central Finance).
• Reconciliations are performed at the account, entity, product, and department level in both functional currency and USD.
• Reconciliations are performed in MS Excel and PDF views, and all work is documented and catalogued in SharePoint online.

Required Skills:

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree.
• 3 or more years of experience working on Finance or Shared Service projects.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and/or Project.
• Strong Excel skills are required.
• Strong accounting background.
• Capacity to work well under pressure with ability to adapt to changing project requirements and deadlines.
• Customer focused.
• Excellent organizational skills, detail oriented.
• Functional Finance system knowledge of SAP and/or PeopleSoft.
• Demonstrates initiative and effectively manages self through a fast-paced environment.
• Problem Solving, Analytical Skills, Exceptional Follow Through.

Desired Skills:

• Deep understanding of Shared Service process from work in deployment or integration projects.
• Exposure to recommending process improvements and escalating potential risk exposures.
• Familiarity with Corning’s standards, processes, and tools.
• Understanding of Shared Services Operations & Corning Functional processes (Finance, HR, Procurement, etc.).

Soft Skills:

• Ambitious and demonstrates initiative.
• Collaborative work style and organizational savvy.
• Cross-cultural Sensitivity.
• Customer Focus with emphasis on exceptional project delivery.
• Eager to learn new things.
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing environment; be a change agent to help others through change.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Strong communication and ability to interact effectively with a diverse employee group and across many levels of the organization (i.e. Business requestors, CSS operations receivers, IT analysts)