Financial Analysis - Associate

Job Summary :

As a Financial Analysis Associate within the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team, you will partner across the firm to provide financial and strategic analysis, oversight, and coordination of budgeting and forecasting. You will analyze, prepare, and reconcile accounting and technical data, prepare reports, and devise ways to streamline processes through automation and process improvement. You will also develop recommendations affecting business procedures and operations, maintain financial and reporting systems, and assist with special projects as needed.

Job responsibilities

• Managing annual / continual financial planning activities for product areas, providing business rational and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting, conducting reviews and analysis on product financial performance, consumption / demand planning, budgeting, billing, trends, and exception reports
• Efficiency, analytics and strategy - including, but not limited to - location strategy, span of control, reporting and analytics
• Creating financial business cases supporting business initiatives
• Reporting on and monitoring key metrics, driving data quality initiatives across the product area, and helping define future needs of the product area
• Developing and tracking performance metrics, creating presentations, and generally providing financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management
• Performing variance analysis to understand the key drivers of the results and presenting commentary to senior managers, explaining changes from prior forecasts / budgets and helping design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver the financial results to senior management
• Enhancing controls and streamlining processes, introducing automation where possible

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

Skills Required

Excel, Data Mining, Powerpoint