General Responsibilities
The Financial Analyst within the Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) department will provide financial support and guidance to their business partners. This role will lead/support financial forecasts and budgeting in collaboration with cross-functional partners across the organization. The individual will regularly research and communicate monthly results to Finance Management, prepare month-end financial reporting, and perform monthly reviews of Actuals and variance analysis with department heads. The Financial Analyst will collaborate with the Senior Manager of FP&A on preparation of forward-looking analysis and forecasts, management key metric scorecards, and financial presentations to internal executive management. They will create financial models for pricing programs, joint business partnerships, and assessment of product development projects. The Financial Analyst will also perform additional ad-hoc financial analyses as required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- 3 - 5 years of relevant experience preferred, including: forecasting, budgeting, financial modeling, and ERP systems
Required Technical Competencies
- Self-starter, creative thinker, and solid analytical problem-solving skills
- Advanced Excel skills; financial modeling experience preferred
- Knowledge of accounting principles
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Required Behavioral Competencies
- Adaptability - Maintains effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work tasks or the work environment, adjust effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, and cultures.
- Builds Strategic Relationships - Develops and uses collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
- Decision Making - Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; compares data from different sources to draw conclusions; uses effective approaches for choosing a course of action or develops appropriate solutions; takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.
- Information Monitoring - Sets up ongoing procedures to collect and review information needed to manage an organization or ongoing activities within it.
- Manages Work - Effectively manages one's time and resources to ensure that work is complete efficiently and accurately.
- Work standards - Sets high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.
Expected Behavioral Norms
RESPECT: Be professional and mindful. There's so much to be proud of in our workplace-let's show it. When there's room to offer feedback, let's be constructive about it. When a colleague deserves praise, let's be loud and genuine about it. We can make our company even stronger by building each other up and practicing deliberate acts of kindness.
COMMUNICATION: Be clear, stay connected. Let's leave nothing to interpretation. If we sense static, let's commit to picking up the phone and talking things through. We can avoid communication breakdowns by being direct, transparent and respectful with colleagues; responding in a timely manner; and never leave each other guessing.
COLLABORATION: Put we above I. Let's strive to break down silos; welcome input and ideas from anywhere and any title; listen and encourage all voices at the table; and work seamlessly across disciplines and as an integrated team to achieve goals and drive success.
ACCOUNTABILITY: Own it. Let's embrace our individual responsibilities, own our deadlines and never point fingers. Our workplace becomes even more rewarding when we share in each other's successes and failures; run buttoned up, timely meetings; say what we mean and do what we say.
INCLUSION: We welcome you-the whole you. Your background, your culture, your ethnicity, your unique experiences, your way of looking at the world. We truly believe that your individuality helps us create a diverse, inclusive and inspired workplace in which every ethnicity, nationality, religion, elder status, family structure and gender identity is embraced and valued. We also welcome your passion for making the lives of children, your co-workers, and our company better. Because as different as we are, that's the common theme that will always keep us moving forward-together.
CREATIVITY: Be bold, brave and unexpected. Let's push ideas until they scare us a little bit. Because it's there, in uncharted creative territory, where we find breakthroughs that help our company lead vs. follow. Let's keep exploring and being curious students of the world. Every day, let's find ways to inspire each other, draw out cool thinking, and get behind great ideas that bring us all up.
POSITIVITY: Always see the good. When we arrive at work, let's check negative feelings at the door. The workday feels a lot happier and healthier when we each see the good in our peers, our work, ourselves. Let's work together to view challenges as opportunities and always know that the right attitude can change everything.
EEO Statement
Evenflo Company, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information or any other legally protected characteristic.
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