Payments Planning and Financial Analysis-Associate

Description

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in financial analysis. You have found the right team.

As a Financial Analysis Associate in our Finance team you will spend each day defining refining and delivering set goals for our firm. You will partner across the organization to provide financial and strategic analysis oversee budgeting and forecasting and deliver management reporting. Your responsibilities will include analyzing preparing and reconciling accounting and technical data as well as preparing reports to support business decisions. You will continuously seek opportunities to streamline processes and minimize cycle times through automation and process improvement. Additionally you will help develop recommendations to enhance business procedures and operations maintain financial and reporting systems and assist with special projects or components of other initiatives as needed.

Job responsibilities

Manage annual and ongoing financial planning activities for product areas providing business rationale and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting and conducting reviews and analysis on product financial performance consumption and demand planning budgeting billing trends and exception reports.

Drive efficiency reporting analytics and strategy including location strategy span of control and other reporting and analytics initiatives.

Create financial business cases to support business initiatives.

Report on and monitor key metrics drive data quality initiatives across the product area and help define future needs of the product area.

Develop and track performance metrics create presentations and provide financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management.

Perform variance analysis to understand key drivers of results and present commentary to senior managers explaining changes from prior forecasts and budgets.

Design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver financial results to senior management.

Enhance controls and streamline processes introducing automation where possible.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance or a subject of a technical nature
• Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
• Proficiency with data mining / gathering and manipulation of data sets
• Inquisitive enthusiastic and diligent and capable of challenging peers
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly
• Ability to create ad hoc reporting for senior management
• Proven track record for executing on special projects / assignments often with little lead time or information
• Highly motivated and able to thrive and think clearly under pressure and tight deadlines
• Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business Finance and FP&A Teams
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management / prioritization skills

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

Required Experience :

IC

Key Skills

Internal Audit,Financial Services,Financial Performance,Variance Analysis,Journal Entries,Account Management,ACH,Customer Accounts,General Ledger Accounts,Payroll,Customer Relationships,Financial Statements,Annual Reports

Employment Type : Full-Time

Department / Functional Area : Finance

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1