As a Financial Analysis Associate in our Finance team, you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm.
You will be responsible for partnering across the firm to provide financial and strategic analysis, oversight, and coordination of budgeting and forecasting.
Job Responsibilities
- Manage annual and ongoing financial planning activities for product areas, providing business rationale and decisions for month-end financial performance and forecasting.
- Conduct reviews and analyses of product financial performance, including consumption/demand planning, budgeting, billing, trends, and exception reports.
- Report on efficiency, analytics, and strategy, covering areas such as location strategy, span of control, and related reporting.
- Create financial business cases to support business initiatives.
- Monitor key metrics, drive data quality initiatives across the product area, and help define future requirements.
- Develop and track performance metrics, create presentations, and provide financial analysis on various topics to senior management.
- Perform variance analysis to identify key drivers of results and present commentary to senior managers, explaining changes from prior forecasts and budgets.
- Design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver financial results to senior management.
- Enhance controls and streamline processes, introducing automation where possible.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature
- Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
- Proficiency with data mining/gathering and manipulation of data sets
- Inquisitive, enthusiastic and diligent, and capable of challenging peers
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly
- Ability to create ad hoc reporting for senior management
- Proven track record for executing on special projects / assignments with often little lead time or information
- Highly motivated and 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
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 8+ years of work experience, preferably in Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller background