Job Overview:
The Financial Analyst is responsible for financial forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and account reconciliation, while supporting month-end and year-end close activities. This role analyzes financial and operational performance, including SG&A spending, budget variances, KPIs, and business trends, to identify risks and opportunities and provide meaningful insights and recommendations. The analyst prepares and delivers recurring and ad-hoc financial reports, manages quarterly forecasts, supports short- and long-term financial projections, and simplifies complex financial information for leadership using tools such as Excel, Oracle, JDE, and Business Intelligence platforms.
Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Financial Analyst is responsible for financial forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and account reconciliation
- The analyst should review the company’s finances with a critical eye - spotting data anomalies, trends, or deviations - and recommends and supports management’s strategies for improvement
- Assists the senior FP&A Manager and Controller with providing short and long-term financial projections
- The ability to simplify financial information to benefit the company leadership and decision-making is the daily domain of the analyst
- Development and communication of budgets and forecasts, financial reporting, operational analysis, and review of financials
- Consolidate and report financial results, and reconcile account balance
- Communicate financial and operational performance trends, historical and forecasted, using appropriate metrics
- Interpret and evaluate monthly analyses of business trends, including budget variance of financial results and Key Performance Indicators to identify areas of risk and opportunities and provide recommendations
- Analyzing SGA spending variances and Develop bridges and assist with commentaries, explaining variances from prior year, forecast, and budget
- Identify issues and proactively initiate analysis for financial statements
- Designs, develops, and delivers monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad-hoc reports, charts, graphs, and presentation materials tailored to divisional and leadership needs
- Manages quarterly forecasting for budgets incorporating operational trends, program, or strategic initiative changes, and updated financial or operational assumptions
- The analyst is also adept at software programs like Excel, Oracle, JDE and Business Intelligence tools
- Assist in month-end and year-end financial closing activities
- Ad-hoc analysis
Essential Qualifications and Education:
- Bachelor's Degree Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related business specialty
- Five years’ experience in data analysis, accounting, or financial analysis
Preferred Qualifications and Education:
- Advance degree in Finance/Accounting or MBA is a plus
- Experience with ERP (Oracle, or SAP) systems, Essbase, FCCS, EPBCS, and SmartView is a plus
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