Planning & Analysis - Associate

• 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/demand planning, budgeting, billing, trends, and exception reports.
• Report on efficiency, analytics, and strategy, including but not limited to location strategy, span of control, reporting, and analytics.
• 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 the key drivers of results and present commentary to senior managers, explaining changes from prior forecasts/budgets.
• Help 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

• Bachelor s degree in Accounting, Finance 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, Finance, and FPA Teams
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills
• 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 Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller background