Associate - Financial analysis

Role Overview: As an Associate in the Financial Analysis team, you will analyze, prepare, and reconcile accounting and technical data, while devising ways to streamline processes through automation and process improvement. You will also assist in developing recommendations affecting business procedures and operations, maintain financial and reporting systems, and support special projects as needed. Key Responsibilities: - Manage annual and continual financial planning activities for product areas, providing business rationale and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting. - Conduct reviews and analysis on product financial performance, including consumption/demand planning, budgeting, billing, trends, and exception reports. - Deliver 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, driving data quality initiatives across the product area and helping define future needs. - 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. Qualifications Required: - Minimum 2+ years finance and/or accounting experience - Bachelor's degree in Finance is required - Ability to work in a high-paced environment, follow tight deadlines, organize, and prioritize work - Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work across a highly matrixed cross-functional organization - Ability to communicate to leadership in a concise and effective manner both verbally and written - Be a team player who shows commitment and dedication while maintaining a positive attitude and high level of performance on time-sensitive initiatives (Note: No additional details about the company were provided in the job description),