Financial Planning & Analysis, Analyst III

Job Title: Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst III
Job Location: Atlanta GA
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description:

• Pursues self-development and effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources information advice and expertise with coworkers and customers; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; providing occasional mentoring to team members; listening and responding to seeking and addressing performance feedback; creating plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; anticipating and responding to the needs of others; and adapting to and learning from change difficulties and feedback.

• Completes work assignments by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensuring all procedures and policies are followed; leveraging an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives; collaborating cross-functionally to solve business problems; identifying and monitoring priorities deadlines and expectations; communicating progress and information; identifying recommending and implementing ways to address improvement opportunities; and escalating issues or risks as appropriate.

• Supports the evaluation of the business environment by conducting financial assessments (e.g. Situational Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats Opportunity-Based Strategic Planning system value chain analysis); and generating reports summarizing business financial or economic data.

• Completes costing activities by identifying cost avoidance and cost recovery opportunities.

• Supports improving financial performance by identifying financial trends; using results of analyses; calling attention to operational issues that need to be addressed to improve performance; and partnering with the business to address operational performance issues.

• Supports business modeling by developing best-practice models; analyzing risk alternatives; and developing what-if scenarios and forecasts using in-house models or software.

• Supports reporting of region/business unit financial information by evaluating financial trends data analysis reports and forecasts of income and expense; reviewing assets liabilities revenues and expenses; and using data/inputs from region/business unit systems to support analyses (e.g. membership and utilization reports volume reporting day sales inventory analysis spreadsheets investment schedules).

• Supports assessment of the business vision objectives and strategic initiatives by conducting research to assess financial impact of strategies and initiatives.

• Creates budgets and/or forecasts under the guidance of others in accordance with business strategic initiatives by analyzing budgeting trends; preparing budget and forecasting; and coordinating with others to develop department/regional budgets.

• Evaluates performance/operations/ financial state by using and implementing templates (e.g. cash flow RFA process weekly unit case report) and computer applications; conducting complex financial analyses (e.g. operating cash flow analyses pro forma P&L line item walk forwards volume building blocks NPV IRR Discounted Cash Flow statistical analyses economic analyses); and completing complex variance analysis (e.g. volume P&L line item cost of goods rate).

• Supports internal and external audits by assisting with preparation of audit schedules and review of audit results.

• Supports field operations by analyzing their operational/financial performance.

• Supports Financial Statement Analysis of business partners (e.g. suppliers customers co-packers acquisition targets) by using software systems (Internet Bloomberg and D&B) annual reports and/or interviews; determining the financial status (viability) of business partners; and assessing risk implications.

• Supports others in advising region/business unit leaders on strategic fiscal matters by preparing regular and special reports for both financial and statistical matters in order to facilitate financial management throughout the organization; and organizing regular meetings with leadership to review financial results for their areas.

• Supports strategic financial planning by performing and evaluating financial utilization and benchmark analytics.

• Supports strategic financial planning by gathering and preparing recommendations for financial plans acquisition activity financial requirements and operating forecasts; and applying financial concepts for financial planning and control.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in finance business or related field and Minimum three (3) years Financial Planning & Analysis experience or directly related business experience. Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement.