We are looking for a Risk Analyst to support risk oversight and reporting activities for an energy trading portfolio in San Diego, California. This position focuses on analyzing market exposure, validating trading activity, and helping ensure risk reporting reflects the economic reality of both standard and complex transactions. The role works closely with trading, settlements, scheduling, accounting, and operations teams to strengthen control processes and support informed decision-making.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Analyze commodity positions and price exposure independently, producing clear reporting that supports policy compliance and aligns with established risk tolerance.<br>• Review market, operational, and reporting concerns, escalate exceptions promptly, and present practical recommendations to address identified issues.<br>• Perform daily reconciliation and validation of trading activity, pricing inputs, and system records to confirm accurate risk representation.<br>• Assess portfolio exposure across transactions and develop a strong understanding of key drivers affecting valuation and performance.<br>• Examine structured and non-standard deals to verify complete capture of economic terms and confirm valuations are accurately reflected in risk reporting.<br>• Compare deal valuations generated by risk systems with front-office expectations and investigate material differences to support accurate summaries.<br>• Prepare reconciliation analysis linking initial deal assessments with accounting outcomes to confirm reporting consistency and financial accuracy.<br>• Partner with settlement, scheduling, trading, and operations teams to coordinate profit and loss actualization and maintain end-to-end data integrity.<br>• Contribute to the design and enhancement of reporting tools and serve as a knowledgeable resource for trading and risk management systems, including support for accurate deal entry and valuation oversight.
We are looking for a Financial Analyst to support data-driven planning and fiscal decision-making for a growing government organization in California. This role is ideal for someone who is detail oriented and can interpret financial information, build useful models, and translate complex data into practical recommendations for leadership. The position offers the opportunity to contribute to budgeting, reporting, and performance analysis in a collaborative public-sector environment.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Develop financial models and analytical tools to evaluate trends, forecast outcomes, and support strategic planning.<br>• Review budget-to-actual results, identify key variances, and explain financial performance to internal stakeholders.<br>• Gather, organize, and interpret financial and operational data from multiple sources to support reporting and decision-making.<br>• Prepare ad hoc analyses that help leadership assess costs, risks, and resource allocation needs.<br>• Monitor financial activity and recommend process improvements that strengthen accuracy, efficiency, and reporting quality.<br>• Partner with accounting, operations, and management teams to deliver timely insights on fiscal performance and planning priorities.<br>• Create clear reports and presentations that summarize findings, highlight issues, and outline actionable recommendations.<br>• Assist with ongoing analytical initiatives, including data validation and updates to financial reporting or modeling processes when needed.
We are looking for a Financial Analyst to join a fast-paced wholesale distribution environment in Irvine, California. In this role, you will turn financial and operational data into clear business insight that supports planning, performance management, and leadership decisions. You will work closely with teams across sales, operations, service, and shared services while contributing to monthly reporting, forecasting, and budgeting activities. This position is ideal for someone who combines strong analytical discipline with the ability to explain the story behind the numbers.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Analyze monthly revenue and gross margin results across business segments, product categories, and customer groups, delivering clear explanations for performance changes.<br>• Prepare detailed comparisons against budget, forecast, and prior-year results by isolating the effects of volume, product mix, pricing, and foreign exchange.<br>• Build and maintain financial models and performance bridges that help leadership understand key drivers and support forward-looking planning.<br>• Monitor operating expenses by function and cost center, identifying recurring trends, one-time impacts, and areas that require corrective action.<br>• Partner with HR, operations, and accounting teams to review headcount costs, validate accruals during close, and improve the accuracy of financial reporting.<br>• Manage financial analysis for the service business, including revenue, margin, labor costs, reserves, and inventory-related impacts.<br>• Evaluate service performance using operational and financial indicators such as technician productivity, efficiency, and cost per service event, then help develop actions to improve profitability.<br>• Track service-related provisions and inventory exposure, including warranty reserves and slow-moving stock, with monthly reconciliations and variance commentary.<br>• Support month-end close, forecast cycles, and budget preparation while assisting the FP&A team with reporting improvements and evolving analytics processes.
<p>Robert Half is seeking a Business Analyst for a client located in Irvine, CA. This is a 100% onsite role for atru Business Analyst focused on stakeholder engagement, requirements gathering, and project ownership, <strong><em>not a Data Analyst, Power BI, or development position.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong><em></em>Ideal candidates are proactive, relationship-driven Business Analysts who enjoy working directly with stakeholders, asking questions, creating clarity, and moving projects forward.</strong></p>
Prestigious Inland Empire CPA firm has an outstanding opportunity to join their company as an Audit Senior or Manager to work with firm Staff and Partners. This is an excellent firm where the new candidate will find a very detail oriented environment, highly educated and intelligent teammates, where your contributions will be recognized, and where you will have a broad client base in many varied industries with a heavy focus in manufacturing. The ideal candidate with have 3+ years of public accounting experience with an audit/accounting (AA) focus but including some individual and corporate tax knowledge. This individual will be assigned or lead on client audits and reviews and will develop the ability to perform all aspects of an audit. This firm is growing very quickly and provides excellent detail oriented growth and advancement opportunity. The Partners wants a person on their team who has high personal standards, good team working skills, excellent accounting education and understanding, and who enjoys client contact. Company provides excellent medical benefits and detail oriented training. Firm pays market wages depending upon experience plus time and a half for all overtime required. Outstanding verbal and written communication skills are required as are excellent Excel and computer skills. Requirements: 2+ years of public accounting experience for Senior, 5+ years of experience for Manager CPA license or CPA Candidate Experience in commercial audits and reviews required - in the construction, manufacturing, distribution industries a plus. Strong computer, communication and people development skills, including training and instruction A strong team leader with the ability to supervise staff, manage projects and work professionally with partners, staff, and clients. Ability to stay current on all general detail oriented pronouncements and developments, and interact with peer review auditorsIf you are currently registered with Robert Half, contact your Recruiting Manager. Please reference job order number 00500-120616. All applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. <br> If you are not currently registered with Robert Half, please contact your Recruiter or call Yvette Merk at (909) 493-6082 immedIately!
We are looking for an FP&A Analyst to join a finance team in Irvine, California on a Contract basis. This role is ideal for someone who is detail oriented and can strengthen budgeting and forecasting processes, build meaningful financial insights, and support ongoing planning initiatives in a dynamic environment. The position offers the opportunity to work closely with finance leadership and contribute to both core reporting activities and special analytical projects.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Lead recurring budgeting and forecasting activities, delivering timely updates that support business planning and financial decision-making.<br>• Take ownership of expanding the NetSuite Planning and Budgeting environment, including configuration support, process rollout, and practical adoption across finance workflows.<br>• Develop financial models, dashboards, and management reports that translate data into actionable business insights.<br>• Partner with finance team members to evaluate trends, explain variances, and improve the accuracy of forward-looking projections.<br>• Use advanced Excel tools to perform analysis and reporting for needs that are not yet fully supported within the planning system.<br>• Support ad hoc finance initiatives by gathering data, assessing business performance, and presenting clear recommendations to stakeholders.<br>• Help refine planning and reporting processes to improve consistency, efficiency, and visibility across the organization.