Finance Analyst
American Accounting Association · Saint Paul Church, MN · 4 wk ago
Full-time
About the role
Support strategies to help drive increased profitability, process efficiency, reduced costs, and overall business improvement. Partner with Commercial leadership to deliver financial and strategic results through the utilization of Financial Planning and Analysis of best practices. Support corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) processes, initiatives and reporting within Operations.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process and tools.
- Develop and deploy Finance tools, and processing across the organization.
- Train business stakeholders on the AOP process.
- Support monthly/quarterly business review process.
- Financial modeling and ad hoc analytics.
- Develop and identify insights and opportunities.
- Analytical support for strategic investment decisions.
- Generate corporate and business segment forecasts based on defined cadences.
- Creation of executive management reporting dashboards and distilling key insights.
- Develop, and deploy tools and processes across the organization as business defines.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance. MBA degree preferred.
- Experience: 2+ years Financial or business-related analysis experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations: CPA preferred.
Skills
- Strong analytical, organizational, interpersonal skills.
- Broad knowledge of accounting principles, practices, and procedures.
- Furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several discrete variables in standardized situations.
- Must be able to work on multiple projects concurrently and capable of working with little direct supervision.
Physical Demands
- Regularly required to sit, stand, walk and use hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and telephone to talk and hear.
- Frequently required to sit and reach with hands and arms.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.