DescriptionYou are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in financial have found the right team.
As a Planning and Analysis Associate within the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team you will collaborate across the firm to deliver financial and strategic analysis oversee budgeting and forecasting and ensure coordination. You will engage in a variety of activities including financial control forecasting budgeting and analyzing financial/business metrics. Your role involves delivering management reports on a weekly monthly and quarterly basis developing new reporting capabilities such as dashboards and advising line of business CFOs on strategies to enhance profitability and efficiency. You will be tasked with analyzing preparing and reconciling accounting and technical data as well as preparing reports while continuously seeking ways to streamline processes and reduce cycle times through automation and process improvement. Additionally you will contribute to developing recommendations that impact business procedures and operations maintain financial and reporting systems and support the department and team members with special projects or components of other projects as needed.
Job Responsibilities :
- Managing annual/continual financial planning activities for product areas providing business rationale and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting conducting reviews and analysis on product financial performance consumption/demand planning budgeting billing trends and exception reports
- Drive efficiency reporting analytics and strategy including but not limited to location strategy span of control reporting and analytic
- 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 generally 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
- Helping design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver the financial results to senior management
- Enhancing controls and streamlining processes introducing automation where possible
Required qualifications capabilities and skills
- 6 yearsof finance and/or accounting experience
- Bachelors degree in Finance is required
- Ability to work in a high-paced environment be flexible follow tight deadlines organize and prioritize work
- Highly proficient with Microsoft Office suite (emphasis on PowerPoint and Excel)
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work across a highly matrixed cross functional organization
- Ability to communicate to leadership in a concise and effective manner both verbally and written
- Be a team player who shows commitment and dedication while maintaining a positive attitude and high level of performance on time-sensitive initiatives
Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills
- Knowledge of SQL and Alteryx is a plus
Required Experience:
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