Principal Financial Analyst

Company :
Worley

Primary Location

USA-AK-Anchorage

Job

Finance

Schedule

Full-time

Employment Type

:
Employee

Reporting Manager Title :
Group Director, Operational Finance

Building on our past. Ready for the future

Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.

Job Title:

As a Principal Financial Analyst, you will drive effective financial planning and performance management by providing accurate analysis, reporting, budgeting and forecasting, while partnering with Department and Business Unit Managers to enable informed decision-making and improve business results.

This position will be reporting to the Finance Director.

Management Reporting

• Lead and support the budget/quarterly forecast processes, including data collection, upload, data integrity and validation.
• Analysis and interpretation of results including Actuals, Forecasts and Budgets along with comparing budget/forecast to actual, KPI’s, key business drivers and trends, overheads, business development activities and market conditions.
• Forensically review financials, as needed, to identify and correct accounting errors and reduce future financial impacts.
• Participate in Month end close activities including financial analysis, Journal entries and any necessary month end adjustments
• Preparing Monthly & Quarterly Business Review Report Packs
• Monitoring of overhead budget for functional areas including detailed variance analysis and a view on possible risks and opportunities.
• Compliance with high quality of presentation, clarification, and accuracy with all information disseminated
• Drive an effective internal control framework to highlight and manage risk by providing an independent assessment of the health of the business
• Ad-hoc business analysis as required
• Assist in developing and implementing effective reporting and analysis to improve understanding of actual and forecast performance, to drive future financial performance.

Business Partnership

• Work Closely with Finance Business Partner to support Operations and finance function.
• Identify effective overhead and working capital reporting/analysis to drive productivity.
• Able to utilize leading indicators across the region to identify opportunities and/or risks.
• Ensure appropriate accountability and performance standards are met and maintain high levels of confidentiality working with sensitive data.
• Leverage AI to identify business risks, opportunities, and efficiency improvements.
• Leverage common system platforms, e.g. Hyperion, Oracle (GBS, EPM).
• Be a custodian of finance systems and data.
• Be a Finance super user and be a first point of contact on system related issues.

People

Skills:

• Interpersonal:
  
  Builds appropriate, constructive, and effective business relationships throughout the organization; uses diplomacy and tact; is approachable; communicates clearly, accurately, and consistently both verbally and in written matters, remotely and in person.
  
  Employs the principles of active listening and encourages feedback from others.
• Action Orientation:
  
  Achieves results set by self and others, meets timelines, pushes to achieve stretch goals, and demonstrates enthusiasm, persistence, and tenacity.
  
  Breaks down work into executable tasks.
• Customer Focus
  - Commits to building enduring relationships and delivering optimal customer solutions.
  
  Effectively meets internal and external customer needs, builds proactive customer relationships, and takes responsibility for customer satisfaction and loyalty.
• Intellectual Capacity
  - Deals with new concepts and complexity comfortably. Examines problems carefully and thoroughly and understands their interdependencies. Can pull information and ideas from many sources and see the importance of many factors.
• Business Acumen
  - Knows how the business works, what drives profitability and what will increase growth to deliver value to the shareholders. Ability to maximize business opportunities as a result of business knowledge.

Physical Demand/Work Environment:

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