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Korean Bilingual Finance Analyst 162542

JND, Plano, Texas, us, 75086

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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 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.

Respond promptly to urgent queries for payment clarification from internal teams such as HQ R&D, SW PLs, MNO, SMC 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 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.

Gather, analyze and provide cost detailed templates for all Verizon projects for Carrier submission.

Ensure vendor pricing agreement is up-to-date and reflects increased/reduced test scopes.

Collect testing cost information from vendor labs, HQ and internal tracking files ahead of deadline.

Report pricing updates that impact budget plan.

Analyze all Carrier's actual operating results; 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.

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.

Act as a fallback to cover for the junior Analyst when on leave.

Train the junior Analyst on all aspects to be fully ready to cover for this position.

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.

Purchase tools, equipment and renew licenses as necessary for testing by MNO.

Record and upload information and data in SEA/HQ systems as required.

Assist with updating security tracker and handling additional deliverables to vendors.

Coordinate between HQ and Labs to support DHL billing activities.

Create, update and maintain a master pricing database for all vendors' itemized price plans and rates.

Seek new pricing information from vendor labs on new feature and technology test plans.

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 to meet budget compliance.

Simulate savings due to test scope reductions, rate reduction, discount and other reasons.

Support invoice processing and other work transferred from SEA Accounting and Finance.

Work closely with lab vendors and Samsung operation/sales/engineering departments for cost impact details.

Monitor and mitigate crisis with CTIA payment processing and certification on a regular basis.

Develop ongoing relationship to ensure invoices are uploaded to SEA portal on time.

Review and identify pricing discrepancies and suggest contract amendments.

Hold regular meetings with test requestors to resolve cost and test tracking mistakes.

Attend non-finance meetings with HQ and MNO to translate 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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