Auto Financial analysis - Finance Analyst

Posting Description

As an Associate in the Ficial Analysis team, you will analyze, prepare, and reconcile accounting and technical data as well as prepare reports, while always thinking of and devising ways to streamline and minimize cycle times through automated applications and process improvement. You will also help develop recommendations affecting business procedures and operations and maintain ficial and reporting systems. In addition, you will assist the department and other team members with special projects or components of other projects as needed.

Job responsibilities

• Manage annual and continual ficial planning activities for product areas, providing business rationale and decisions for all month-end ficial performance and forecasting.
• Conduct reviews and analysis on product ficial 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 ficial 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 ficial 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 ficial results to senior management.
• Enhance controls and streamline processes, introducing automation where possible.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Minimum 2+ years fice and/or accounting experience
• Bachelor s degree in Fice is required
• Ability to work in a high-paced environment, be flexible, 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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office suite (emphasis on PowerPoint and Excel)
• Knowledge of SQL and Alteryx is a plus