Job Description

Job Description

SUMMARY

The Senior Analyst, FP&A is responsible for planning, forecasting, & Reporting of the financial results for the function they support. The specific function is intentionally not presented in this job description as we are looking to establish multiple FP&A teams to support all the functions of the company.  Additionally, we are more interested in identifying individuals with core competencies that match our culture (driven, accountable, curious, adaptable, and able to work across teams) as this role is within an organization where your aptitude and ability to execute will lead you to get involved in a variety of functions and projects.  The core responsibilities of this individual will be to support your given function with the creation of annual plans, periodic forecast as well as the actual reporting, variance analysis, and key metrics tracking that supports your functions financial objectives. The successful candidate will have a strong desire to dive in and help understand the key drivers of their functions financial results and an appetite to get involved in all aspects of financial planning, modeling, and reporting.  This work operates within the broader finance functions planning and close calendar and thus, an attention to the successful delivery of your responsibilities within this calendar will ensure the broader function is able to work effectively.  Building relationships with your team and being adaptable as different opportunities arise will be critical to this role and in establishing yourself within the broader organization.  Additionally, the ability to leverage new tools will continue to play a role in your success as the function and the company are rapidly transforming the toolsets/capabilities of the organization. This position has a good opportunity to get involved in a lot of the areas of the company working with different leaders and helping to partner to solve their business partner’s challenges.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Participates in monthly financial reporting and forecast processes, including maintaining tasks within the planning & forecasting calendarWork with peers, Managers, Analysts, and Finance Management to develop financial plans and forecastsHelps support different business initiatives & outcomes by providing financial and analytical support to facilitate decision-marking around these initiativesDevelop and prepare presentation materials for the Management TeamProvide reporting, commentary, and project support that will deliver information for making critical business decisionsWork closely with accounting, finance, and others as necessary during period end close, improve reporting capabilities, and provide variance analysis support to plan, forecast and last yearDemonstrate an aptitude and desire to continue learning financials and modeling (profit and loss, balance sheet, discounted cash flow, and other return on investment analysis)Knowledge of core Finance and Accounting principlesContribution to the evolution of the underlying financial technology to support planning, consolidations, and analysis (systems capabilities, master data, ecosystem integration, automation, etc.)

Support the team with respect to:

Planning & Forecasting

Analyze the actuals and perform variance analysis with respect to AOP/forecasts

Preparation of weekly reports, doing deep Analysis and providing Insights

Retrieving of Plan, Actual, forecast numbers from SQL or Snowflake

QUALIFICATIONS

Leadership Qualifications include the desire to get involved and explore new areas of responsibility. Team level communication and presentation skills (Storyline, Recommendations, Format, & Delivery)Technical Qualifications: Advanced Excel/Power BI/Oracle Financials/SQL/SnowFlakeAbility to model financials with a solid understanding of accounting principlesAbility to leverage technology to get at more information, more deeply, and more efficientlyAbility to translate desired outcomes into your underlying work productStrong acumen for numbers, this role is highly analyticalAbility to define problems, collect data, perform analysis, establish facts, and draw valid conclusionsAbility to present information and respond to questions from groups of senior management, department heads, and the Finance/IT/Business teamsAttention to quality, reconciliation, and accuracy are critical as the audience is often mgmt/exec level staff and the decisions being made are significant in scope/impactCreativity and vision to recommend ways to evolve our infrastructure, process, and analytic capabilities

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

CA/MBA Finance/CMA5-6 years of experience in Finance

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