Senior Financial Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Provides analysis, insight, context, and perspective to support the regional operations management.
• Assist in the design, development, and maintenance of structured reporting templates, complex financial models, and analytic tools that allow for efficient input, retrieval, and evaluation of data primarily utilizing Microsoft Excel.
• Supports the annual budget and quarterly forecast process through interaction with department leaders, forecast model optimization, and presentation development.
• Evaluates financial results and performs root-cause analyses on corporate costs, product & service lines, and regional business units to support optimal financial performance.
• Prepares monthly comprehensive variance analysis to the regions in the business unit and explains variances between actual and budgeted/forecasted/historical figures, as necessary.
• Aids in the implementation of automated systems to provide reports to management, ensuring that the information provided is timely, accurate, and adequate for management to effectively manage and control the operations.
• Participates in the budgeting and forecasting process, ensures consistency in the methodology across the regions of the business unit.
• Affirms risk and collaborates with regions to build business case for any investment brought forward by the regional management.
• Provides insights and recommendations based on modeling outcomes to support decision-making processes.
• Proactively participates in finance and accounting related special projects that promote globally consistent work processes and deliver value through process automation and efficiency.
• Affords assistance in the evaluation of CAPEX requests including validation of revenues, expenses, and cash flows to ensure accurate calculation of return metrics.
• Affords assistance in hedge program management to minimize financial risks from FX, interest rate, and commodity exposures.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams including Operations, Sales, and Marketing to understand business drivers and facilitate data-driven decision-making.
• Serves as a trusted advisor to groups across the organization by providing financial insights, analysis, and guidance to support their objectives.
• Affords assistance in the preparation of long- and short-range financial forecasts with input from the regional management and provides financial projections and analyses to management for development of the strategic plan.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting required.
• CPA preferred.
• 5-7 years of experience in Finance (or master's degree and 3 years of experience).
• CPA, CMA, CFA, MBA or MS in Finance is preferred.
• Experience with Hyperion Essbase, Cognos TM1, or IBM Planning Analytics is beneficial (not required).