Financial Analyst

Responsibilities

• Assist in the annual and interim budget planning
• Support the annual budget process including:
  • Participating in the development of planning templates and instructions
  • Participating in the review and analysis of completed templates from projects and corporate
  • Quality check of data consolidate
  • Perform indirect cost allocations
  • Provide business leaders data insights to manage headcount and expenses
• Create and distribute monthly dashboard reports to provide budget to actual variance visibility to the corporate support team and projects
• Collaborate finance team and key business leaders to create, develop, and improve budget and analytical reports.
• Assist with Purchase Requisition approvals.  Partnering with Procurement and Project Managers, Purchase Requisitioner to confirm budget availability
• Update process documentation
• Ability to Explain accounting and finance principles to non-finance business partners in a simple and straightforward manner
• Ad hoc projects including supporting the ERP transition
• Work with technical staff, PMO (project management office), corporate support team to track actual cost compared to budgeted cost, and detailed variance analyses
• Provide data insights, communicating forecasts, budgets, and variance analyses
• Actively participate in monthly, and annual dashboard reviews.
• Compare budget and actual costs including monthly forecast and annual budgets.
• Document current processes and identify internal control and process improvement opportunities. Prepare financial presentations for quarterly and ad hoc business review meetings.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance          
• Minimum of 7 years progressive experience in an accounting role with strong preference for experience supporting operations
• Proficient with Excel as a business tool (pivot tables, data manipulation/importing, index, Vlookup, etc.) and other database and/or reporting tools such as Access / SQL.
• Proficient with PowerPoint and presentation preparation.
• Experience with Netsuite, reporting and/or other ERP systems a plus.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, under tight deadlines at times, and in an ever changing / dynamic environment.
• Candidate should possess high level of attention to detail and accuracy, and strong analytical skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively and to interact professionally with all levels of an organization.
• Proven ability to handle sensitive information in a confidential manner.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect and a desire to foster teamwork.

Plus

• Strong working knowledge of full cycle accounting, cost accounting knowledge a plus.