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.
We are looking for an FP&A Manager to lead finance process automation and strengthen the connection between operational data, accounting activity, and executive reporting in Montebello, California. This role will shape scalable workflows that improve accuracy, reduce manual effort, and deliver timely financial insight for business leaders. The ideal candidate brings strong planning and analysis expertise along with hands-on experience improving systems, reporting structures, and cross-functional finance operations.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Lead automation initiatives that connect operational inputs such as orders, shipments, and billing activity to accounting, financial analysis, and leadership reporting with minimal manual handling.<br>• Manage the flow of data between business platforms and finance applications to ensure transactions are captured accurately, validated appropriately, and available for downstream settlement, reconciliation, and reporting.<br>• Direct the enhancement of finance tools and automated workflows across core processes including accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger activity, reconciliations, settlements, and month-end close.<br>• Build and maintain a prioritized automation roadmap by evaluating business value, implementation risk, and complexity, while keeping stakeholders informed on progress and upcoming delivery phases.<br>• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to define requirements, design process solutions, oversee implementation activities, support go-live readiness, and stabilize production performance after launch.<br>• Drive broader adoption of automation practices by encouraging process improvement, identifying new opportunities for efficiency, and reducing reliance on manual finance tasks.<br>• Automate settlement and accounting activities such as rate calculations, invoice creation, dispute resolution, payment processing, journal entries, accruals, intercompany transactions, and close-related workflows while supporting compliance requirements.<br>• Develop automated reporting pipelines and executive dashboards that provide timely visibility into profit and loss, cost drivers, productivity, volume trends, and other key performance indicators.<br>• Review end-to-end business and finance workflows to identify inefficiencies, remove unnecessary steps, standardize procedures, document controls, and recommend measurable improvements in cycle time, quality, and audit readiness.
<p>Robert Half Management Resources is seeking an FP&A Director consultant for a rapidly growing retail organization in Los Angeles, California, for a hybrid engagement of three months or longer. This high-visibility assignment will partner closely with executive leadership to enhance financial planning, reporting, and cash management in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.</p><p><br></p><p>The ideal consultant is a strategic finance leader with the ability to translate complex operating data into actionable insights and dependable forecasts. Regular onsite collaboration is strongly preferred to foster strong partnership with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Lead the upkeep and advancement of a detailed operating model that supports company planning, forecasting, and strategic decision-making.</p><p>• Investigate business performance trends by evaluating major drivers, explaining variances, and resolving inconsistencies in financial reports and models.</p><p>• Prepare monthly financial packages that include budget-versus-actual reviews, variance commentary, KPI tracking, and presentation materials for senior leadership.</p><p>• Oversee short-term cash forecasting by monitoring inflows, outflows, liquidity needs, and rolling 13-week cash projections.</p><p>• Apply AI-enabled planning tools within spreadsheet-based models to improve forecast precision, streamline manual work, and test multiple business scenarios.</p><p>• Review and reconcile outputs across income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, debt, and headcount models to ensure accuracy and alignment.</p><p>• Produce high-quality financial analyses suitable for executives, board members, investors, and lending partners, with a strong focus on precision and quality.</p><p>• Collaborate with operational leaders to translate business activity into meaningful financial guidance that informs timely decisions.</p>
<p>Robert Half is in search for a Financial Analyst for local ongoing opportunities. The Financial Analyst, you will conduct financial modeling on various financial products as well as measure, analyze and forecast performance in conjunction with operating plans. Additional duties include advising management on the allocation of resources to best accomplish objectives and preparing reports for management. For Immediate consideration please email your resume and call 626.463.2030 to schedule an interview. </p><p>Financial Modeling:</p><p>· Develop and maintain financial models to analyze and forecast company performance</p><p>· Use spreadsheet tools to create projections, scenario analyses, and sensitivity analyses.</p><p>Budgeting and Forecasting:</p><p>· Collaborate with various departments to create and manage budgets.</p><p>· Prepare financial forecasts, identifying trends and potential areas of concern or opportunity.</p><p>Financial Reporting:</p><p>· Generate and analyze financial reports, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.</p><p>· Communicate financial results and trends to management and stakeholders.</p><p>Variance Analysis:</p><p>· Conduct variance analysis to compare actual financial performance against budgets and forecasts.</p><p>· Identify and investigate discrepancies, providing explanations for variances.</p><p>Decision Support:</p><p>· Provide decision support by analyzing financial data and making recommendations for strategic and operational decisions.</p><p>· Assess the financial impact of potential investments, projects, or business initiatives.</p><p>Market and Industry Analysis:</p><p>· Monitor economic and industry trends that may impact the organization's financial performance.</p><p>· Conduct market research and competitor analysis to inform strategic decision-making.</p><p> </p><p><br></p>
<p>We are looking for a Financial Analyst to support financial reporting and operational analysis for a construction-focused organization in Rancho Cucamonga, California. This role is ideal for someone who can turn complex, high-volume data into clear insights that support budgeting, forecasting, and business decisions. The position blends analytical work with practical accounting knowledge and calls for strong Excel expertise in a project-based environment.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Build and maintain financial reports, dashboards, and models that convert large, detailed datasets into accurate and presentation-ready analysis.</p><p>• Review project and operational data to identify trends, explain performance differences, and support monthly and ongoing variance analysis.</p><p>• Partner with finance and operations teams to develop budgets, forecasts, and ad hoc reporting that informs business planning and resource allocation.</p><p>• Analyze construction-related information such as subcontractor activity, equipment utilization, and usage reporting to improve financial visibility.</p><p>• Organize and validate high-volume Excel data, often spanning tens of thousands of rows, to ensure consistency, accuracy, and usability.</p><p>• Use advanced Excel tools, including PivotTables, Power Query, and financial modeling techniques, to streamline analysis and reporting processes.</p><p>• Contribute accounting insight when evaluating financial results, reconciliations, and reporting outputs across projects and departments.</p>
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.
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 an Accounting Analyst to join a cosmetics organization in El Segundo, California on a Long-term Contract basis. This role supports day-to-day accounting and inventory activities across multiple product lines, with a focus on maintaining accurate records, analyzing discrepancies, and assisting with operational reporting. The position is well suited for someone who enjoys working with data, coordinating across teams, and keeping financial and inventory processes running smoothly in a fast-paced environment.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Handle customer payment dispute research and follow through on chargeback resolution to support accurate financial outcomes.<br>• Develop and update product markup information, ensuring calculations remain organized and aligned with business needs.<br>• Review warehouse stock records and complete reconciliations to confirm inventory accuracy across locations.<br>• Compare inventory data with external vendors and kitting partners, then investigate and resolve any mismatches.<br>• Process order transfer activity and validate reporting for online sales channels such as Amazon and TikTok across multiple markets.<br>• Record inventory-related adjustments tied to internal usage, testing, kitting activities, and production support needs.<br>• Monitor returns, scrap activity, and related inventory movements to maintain reliable accounting records.<br>• Organize cycle count activity, add new items to counting groups, and research variances involving raw materials and finished goods.<br>• Coordinate the removal of obsolete inventory held at third-party facilities while supporting additional accounting and operational projects as needed.