As a Financial Planning & Analysis Associate in our Finance team, you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm.
Job Responsibilities:
- Managing annual and continual financial planning activities for product areas, and providing business rationale and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting.
- Conducting reviews and analysis on product financial performance, including consumption/demand planning, budgeting, billing, trends, and exception reports.
- Developing efficiency reporting, analytics, and strategy, including location strategy, span of control, and reporting and analytics.
- Creating financial business cases to support business initiatives.
- Reporting on and monitoring key metrics, driving data quality initiatives across the product area, and helping define future needs of the product area.
- Developing and tracking performance metrics, creating presentations, and providing financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management.
- Performing variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and presenting commentary to senior managers, explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets.
- Designing new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver financial results to senior management.
- Enhancing controls and streamlining processes, introducing automation where possible.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Chartered Accountant, Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature
- Minimum 3 years of work experience.
- 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, often with 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:
- Experience preferably in Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller background