Job Responsibilities:
- Manage annual/continual financial planning activities for product areas, providing business rationale and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting
- Analyze financial performance, including expenses and headcount; identify productivity initiatives and drive implementation
- Create financial business cases supporting business initiatives and align with business on implementation strategies
- Report on and monitor key metrics, driving data quality initiatives across the product area, and helping define future needs of the product area
- Develop and track business operations headcount capacity plans
- Create presentations with effective storytelling, and generally providing financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management
- Perform variance analysis to understand the key drivers of financial results and present to senior leaders
Required Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature
- 4+ years of Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller experience
- Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
- Proficiency with data mining/gathering and manipulation of data sets
- Ability to create ad hoc reporting for senior management
- Proven track record for executing on special projects / assignments, often with little lead time or information
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely
Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:
- Able to thrive and think clearly under pressure and tight deadlines
- Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business, Finance, and FP&A Teams
- Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills
- Inquisitive, enthusiastic and diligent, and capable of challenging peers
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly