Financial Analysis - Associate

Job Summary

As a Ficial Analysis Associate within the Ficial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team, you will partner across the firm to provide ficial 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 ficial and reporting systems, and assist with special projects as needed.

Job responsibilities

• Managing annual/continual ficial planning activities for product areas, providing business rational and decisions for all month-end ficial performance and forecasting, conducting reviews and analysis on product ficial 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 ficial 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 ficial 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 ficial results to senior management
• Enhancing controls and streamlining processes, introducing automation where possible

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor s degree in Accounting, Fice or a subject of a technical nature
• Minimum 4+ years of work experience
• 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 with often 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, Fice, and FP&A Teams
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills and strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience preferably in Ficial Services, and/or accounting/controller background