Senior Financial Analyst
About the role
Support business success by providing essential accounting and financial analyses. Analyze financial data, track performance metrics, and deliver insights to drive strategic decision-making. If you excel at interpreting numbers and optimizing financial processes, this role is for you! Jostens leads the student commemoration market and has been serving local communities for over 125 years. We work with thousands of K-12 schools, colleges and universities each year, and have the honor of partnering with beloved sports teams and esteemed organizations across the country. Our iconic products — like yearbooks, letter jackets, class jewelry and championship rings — keep meaningful traditions alive and inspire millions of people to celebrate their unique stories, milestone moments and biggest accomplishments every year. We have 13 first-class facilities across the globe, from North America to the Caribbean. Our Finance team combines traditional financial planning, analysis and accounting with collaborative business decision-making and strategy, directly supporting leadership in Marketing, Sales, Digital & Operations. Team members are expected to analyze data and provide recommendations across our specialized product lines including Yearbooks, Class Rings, Graduation Products and Professional Sports. Through the utilization of best-in-class technical software, such as Workday Adaptive Planning, Incorta, SAP BPC, Oracle, Salesforce, & the Microsoft Suite, you will get to play a critical role in determining financial solutions that steer our business. Our Finance team is comprised of several subgroups, including decision support, FP&A, operations and corporate, but our success is directly related to a culture of cross-team collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Develop annual financial plans, quarterly financial forecasts and monthly variance analyses for IT area and a portion of Marketing area.
- Communicate reasons for variances to IT & Marketing leadership and to Finance leadership.
- Prepare Capital Expenditure Annual Plans and Forecasts.
- Prepare IT project justification and Capital Expenditure Requests for the IT and Marketing areas.
- Ensure that requests are complete and align with company policies regarding Fixed Assets, Internal-Use Software Capitalization and other relevant policies.
- Record contracts in prepaid expense, set up amortization schedules and prepare monthly amortization entries in accordance with company policy.
- Prepare plans, forecasts and actual costs related to marketing collateral materials, as well as related cost recovery in coordination with Marketing and Sales Support functional areas.
- Calculate and record accruals related to contractor spend.
- Calculate and prepare capitalization entries for completed software development projects.
- Prepare and review account reconciliations for various accounts related to job duties.
- Support IT and Marketing leaders with various questions, planning activities and financial advice.
Requirements
5 – 8 years’ progressive professional experience in Finance/Accounting. Four-year degree in Accounting or Finance.
Qualifications
- Preferred CPA, CMA or MBA.
- Preferred experience/proficiency with Oracle mainframe G/L systems.
Skills
- Strong technical accounting skills combined with business acumen.
- Working/advanced level skills with Excel and Access.
- Attention to detail.
- Analytical, organizational, and project management skills.
- Ability to prioritize and handle multiple simultaneous tasks under deadline pressure.
- Great communication skills; ability to work effectively across multiple organizational levels.
- Ability to communicate technical issues in finance and accounting to a general business audience.
- Ability to negotiate skillfully and creatively to come up with value‑added solutions to business