Senior Financial Analyst Jobs

Seeking an ambitious and analytical individual to join our corporate Financial Planning & Analysis team. The position has 2 main areas of focus / responsibility.

Financial Planning and Analysis

Individual will provide operating expense oversight and financial reporting for several global Corporate Shared Service functions. Responsibilities include supporting the annual budget process, long-range plan, forecast, month-end close and adhoc needs as they arise. Individual will serve as a key financial liaison between Corporate Accounting, multiple domestic and international business partners and a range of peer internal FP&A teams.

Financial Modeling

Individual will be responsible for supporting the development of complex modeling of key financial investments under the supervision of the finance director. Investment areas will primarily focus on marketing, innovation, digital and human capital and the goal of the team is to provide an unbiased fact-based assessment of the P&L impact of investment opportunities.

• Financial Modeling: Help build robust and insightful financial models that capture relevant risk and opportunity.
• Proactively and timely alerts manager to financial risks and opportunities; provides recommendations to mitigate.
• Promotes an environment of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to create process efficiencies.
• Assists with ad-hoc initiatives / analysis to support business needs.
• Month-End Close: Responsible for the month-end financial close process including analyzing variances to budget and forecast, preparing correcting journal entries and partnering with Corporate Accounting to ensure journal entries are supported with appropriate back-up. Compile close deliverables in a timely manner.
• Prepare financial reports and presentation materials to facilitate decision making.
• Support in analyzing monthly and quarterly results, including continued refinement of reporting and analysis.
• Budgeting: Participates in bottoms-up build of operating expense budgets aligned with Corporate growth directive; inclusive of creating budget documents necessary to capture a comprehensive view of operational and strategic needs
• Forecasting: Responsible for oversight and tracking of Corporate operating expense through monthly forecast submission. Collaborates with business partners (stand alone or with manager) on a consistent basis to remain informed of business plans and their impact on financial targets. Conducts monthly expense review with key business partners.