Financial Analyst, Enterprise Workforce Planning

Responsibilities

• Budgeting: Support the execution of the G&A budget process with a specific focus on headcount planning and analysis. Partner with business leaders to ensure accurate headcount projections are captured and managed, aligning staffing needs with financial goals. Communicate the results of the process clearly to relevant stakeholders.
• Monthly analyses: Assist in completing monthly variance analyses for headcount-related costs, including salaries, benefits, and workforce efficiency. Provide explanations for material variances, ensuring that insights are shared for use in monthly business reviews and to help identify trends or areas for improvement.
• Forecasting: Collaborate with Brands and Shared Services teams to collect and analyze headcount data for periodic workforce forecasts. Assist in projecting staffing levels and related costs, ensuring alignment with business goals and operational requirements.
• Ad hoc analyses: Support the Finance leadership and business teams with ad hoc headcount-related analyses, delivering insights that help drive workforce optimization and cost-efficiency opportunities.
• Process Improvement: Continuously evaluate and propose improvements to headcount planning and reporting processes. Identify efficiencies in data collection and analysis to provide more time for strategic business partnership and decision support.
• Diligence: Ensure the accuracy, timeliness, and quality of all headcount-related deliverables, maintaining data integrity in all forecasting, budgeting, and reporting activities.
• Customer Service: Provide excellent service to business partners, fellow Finance team members, and other teams throughout the organization. Work collaboratively to ensure the best possible insights and support are provided for headcount and staffing decisions.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• Required: 2+ years of experience in Planning & Analysis
• Required: 1+ years of experience in Headcount Analysis.

Knowledge, Skills or Abilities

• Comfort with ambiguity and tolerance for a dynamic set of tasks and priorities.
• Strong track record as a proven team player.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Strong finance, technical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage time and multiple projects, often with time constraints.
• Experience with Enterprise Planning and Reporting software such as Hyperion Planning and Hyperion Financial Management, including use of SmartView.
• Strongly preferred: Experience with Business Intelligence analysis and presentation tools, including Power BI and SharePoint.