Financial Planning & Analysis Product Associate
Financial Planning & Analysis Product Associate
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Job Description
Financial Analysis is responsible for partnering across the firm to provide financial and strategic analysis oversight and coordination of budgeting and forecasting. Our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) teams are responsible for a wide range of activities including financial control forecasting and budgeting analysis of financial/business metrics delivery of weekly/monthly/quarterly management reporting development of new reporting capabilities (e.g. dashboards) and advising the line of business CFOs on how to increase profitability and efficiencies.
As a Financial Planning & Analysis Product Associate within the Financial Analysis team you will partner across the firm to provide financial and strategic analysis oversight and coordination of budgeting and forecasting. You will analyze prepare and reconcile accounting and technical data prepare reports and devise ways to streamline processes through automation and process improvement. You will also assist with special projects and maintain financial and reporting systems.
Job responsibilities:
- Manage 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
- Complete efficient reporting analytics and strategy - including but not limited to - location strategy span of control reporting and analytics
- Create financial business cases supporting business initiatives
- Report on and monitor key metrics driving data quality initiatives across the product area and helping define future needs of the product area
- Develop and tracking performance metrics creating presentations and generally providing financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management
- Perform variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and presenting commentary to senior managers explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets
- Help design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver the financial results to senior management
- Enhance controls and streamlining processes introducing automation where possible
Required qualifications capabilities and skills:
- Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance or a subject of a technical nature
- 3 years of work experience
- Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint and 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:
- Preferred experience in Financial Services and/or accounting/controller background
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
