Accounting Operations Financial Analyst Job in Tacoma, Washington US
Accounting Operations Financial Analyst
What we do at TrueBlue is simple, we put people to work and change lives. TrueBlue represents the parent company for a family of national staffing firms: Centerline (dedicated drivers), CLP (construction), Labor Ready (on-demand, general labor), PlaneTechs (aviation), and Spartan (manufacturing). All leaders in their respective industries. We serve approximately 175,000 businesses operating throughout the United States, including Canada and Puerto Rico. With revenues in excess of $1 billion and publicly traded since 1995, TrueBlue's employees provide work assignments to over 300,000 people in North America. We are looking for a top performing Accounting Operations Financial Analyst to join our HQ in Tacoma, WA. The position will reside with our Corporate Accounting Operations department which includes payroll, payroll taxes, unemployment, accounts payable, and purchasing. The Financial Analyst will play a key role in providing value to our businesses with an emphasis in leading projects to identify trends, forecast impact, and drive cost reductions throughout the organization. This position will report to the Director of Accounting Operations. RESPONSIBILITIES: Provide value to our businesses by leading and executing projects to identify trends, forecasts impact, and drive cost reductions throughout the organization. Work with our third party unemployment claims processor to reduce costs through process improvements in our data exchange Seek opportunities to reduce cost through rigorous analysis, facilitating changes to policy, process, and third party relationships as well as measuring and monitoring our success. Work with our business lines to understand their operations and propose policy changes in response to the regulatory environment Lead business requirement documentation efforts to facilitate tool selection Lead projects to implement tools to maximize efficiency in various processes Assist in the design and implementation of corporate policies and procedures Participate in process redesign to create increased efficiencies and reduce costs Initial project to be considered is addressing rising costs regarding unemployment expense. Due to the current economic and regulatory environment, our businesses have experienced a significant increase in unemployment taxes.